About me
Ms. CHARMAINE ROWENA C. AVIQUIVIL, a career officer at the Department of Foreign Foreign Affairs (DFA), is the Consul General of the Philippine Consulate General in Sydney, Australia. She arrived at Post on 25 October 2022.
Consul General Aviquivil has worked for over 20 years in public service, initially joining government as a Media Production Specialist and eventually as Information Officer at the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA), an attached agency of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), from 1989 to 1997.
She joined the DFA in 1997 as a Foreign Service Officer (FSO) after passing the highly competitive FSO examinations that year. She was promoted to Career Minister in January 2013 after passing the Career Minister’s examinations in 2012, and later to Chief of Mission 2 in 2021.
Prior to her posting in Sydney, her previous foreign assignments were at the Philippine Embassy in Oslo, Norway from 2015 to 2017, Philippine Embassy in Athens, Greece from 2011-2015, Philippine Embassy in Cairo, Egypt from 2005 to 2008, and before that, at the Philippine Consulate General in Agana, Guam from 2002 to 2005.
At the DFA Home Office, after completing a six-month cadetship course under the Foreign Service Institute from 1997 to 1998, Ms.Aviquivil initially served as Principal Assistant at the Office of United Nations and other Organizations in 1998, and then at the Public Information Services Unit from 1998 to 2002. She became Director of the Africa Division of the Office of Middle East and African Affairs (OMEAA) at the DFA from 2008 to 2011. Her most recent assignment at the Home Office was as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Policy Planning and Coordination (OPPC).
She graduated Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. She also earned a Master in Philippine Studies degree from the same university in the year 2001.