Dominic Walton-France is the Deputy Ambassador at the New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo. Prior to his current role, he was based in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Wellington from 2016-2018 leading a team implementing a NZ$250m programme of energy and infrastructure projects across the Pacific region.

Mr Walton-France has been working in the New Zealand public service for 20 years in internationally focused roles based in New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. He served as New Zealand’s representative on the Board of the Asian Development Bank in Manila for three years from 2013-2015. He also spent three years as New Zealand’s Deputy High Commissioner to Tonga, and earlier in his career spent six years working in the International Team at the New Zealand Treasury.