Career
The first woman to hold the office, she has been described by then-General John Larsson as a "gifted and widely experienced internationalist."
Robin Dunster was a pupil at Sydney Girls" High School and later trained as a nurse in Sydney (Australia). She is a registered general nurse and midwife (Canterbury District Hospital), with post-graduate qualifications in Mothercraft (Street Anthony"s, Ashfield) and psychiatry (Gladesville Hospital). She also holds qualifications in Tropical medicine, Under 5s" Health and Planned Parenthood.
Subsequent service in Australia preceded a return to Zimbabwe as Chief Secretary.
In 1998 she was appointed Territorial Commander in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and, in 2002, The Philippines. She was appointed to her current post on April 2, 2006.
On September 13, 2007 she became a Freeman of the City of London.
