Bertram Charles Ballard AM (22 January 1903 – 15 July 1981) was an Australian public servant and diplomat.
[2] Ballard joined the Commonwealth Public Service as Australian government solicitor in New Hebrides, Vanuatu in 1934.
On 6 August 1940, Ballard was appointed Australia's first official representative in Nouméa, New Caledonia.
He was tasked with encouraging war-time cooperation between New Caledonia and Australia and was also responsible for reporting to the Australian Government on economic and political affairs.
[2] In his first decade at the external affairs department, he was posted to Japan, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), France, the Soviet Union and Switzerland.