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Michele Anne Forster was Australian Ambassador to Laos from 2007-11. Prior to her appointment in Laos, she was Australia's Deputy High Commissioner to Bangladesh.

Forster was Deputy Head of Mission in Myanmar from January 2020 to 2022, when Australia downgraded its diplomatic ties with Myanmar in response to the actions of the military junta. In 2021-22 some Australian embassy staff were controversially accommodated in a junta-owned luxury hotel, ABC News reported.

A Sri-Lankan-born Australian, Forster entered DFAT as a graduate administrative assistant in March 1991. Following her more than thirty-year career in DFAT, since 2023 she has been Director Residential Life, Student and Scholarly Services at the University of Melbourne.

Education
Forster attended Monash University where she completed her Doctorate in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in 1992.