Mr Leo Zeng
Ambassador to Mongolia
Mr Zeng is a career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and most recently Director, Graduate and Early Careers Development. Previously, he managed some of Australia’s most complex and high-profile consular cases as Director, Consular Operations Asia (2021-2023).
He has served overseas as Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Belgrade (2018 – 2021), with earlier postings in Mumbai (2013-2016) and Seoul (2008-2011). He has also undertaken short-term assignments in Australian missions in Mexico City and Shanghai.
Prior to joining DFAT in 2006, Mr Zeng worked as an auditor and business analyst with EY and Deloitte. He worked with the World Bank and UNDP on compliance and governance capacity building in Timor Leste during 2004 to 2005.
Mr Zeng speaks professional Mandarin and Cantonese, and social Korean. He holds a Bachelor of Business, Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting, and an MBA.