List of ambassadors and high commissioners to Canada

This is a list of heads of diplomatic missions to Canada from other countries and entities, such as ambassadors and high commissioners, as listed by Global Affairs Canada.^[1]

Current ambassadors and high commissioners

Below are the ambassadors and high commissioners to Canada, by order of precedence, as of July 2024^[update].^[2]

Sending country/entity	Name[1][3]	Credentials (as of 23 March 2021[update])	Title
San Marino	Damiano Beleffi	18 May 2011	Ambassador[i]
Monaco	Maguy Maccario-Doyle	16 December 2014	Ambassador[ii]
Andorra	Elisenda Vives Balmaña	28 April 2016	Ambassador[i]
Yemen	Jamal Abdullah Yahya Al-Sallal	21 November 2016	Ambassador
Turkmenistan	Meret Orazov	21 November 2016	Ambassador[ii]
Djibouti	Mohamed Siad Douale	2 March 2017	Ambassador[ii]
Antigua and Barbuda	Ronald Sanders, Sir	13 March 2017	High Commissioner[ii]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Louanne Gaylene Gilchrist	28 August 2017	Ambassador
Uganda	Joy Ruth Acheng	12 September 2017	High Commissioner
Palau	Hersey Kyota	20 November 2017	Ambassador[ii]
United Arab Emirates	Fahad Saeed Mohamed Abdulla Al Raqbani	29 January 2018	Ambassador
Lebanon	Fadi Ziadeh	29 January 2018	Ambassador
Bahrain	Shaikh Abdulla Rashed Abdulla AlKhalifa	29 January 2018	Ambassador
Morocco	Souriya Otmani	29 June 2018	Ambassador
Armenia	Anahit Harutyunyan	9 July 2019	Ambassador
Sierra Leone	Sidique Abou-Bakarr Wai	9 July 2019	High Commissioner[ii]
Denmark	Hanne Fugl Eskjaer	9 September 2019	Ambassador
Afghanistan	Mohammad Hassan Soroosh Yousufzai	1 November 2019	Ambassador
Rwanda	Prosper Higiro	1 November 2019	Ambassador
Kuwait	Reem Mohammad Khaled Zaid Al Khaled	1 November 2019	Ambassador
Croatia	Vice Skračić	18 December 2019	Ambassador
Lithuania	Darius Skusevičius	18 December 2019	Ambassador
Kosovo	Adriatik Kryeziu	10 March 2020	Ambassador
Mali	Fatima Braoulé Méïté	10 March 2020	Ambassador
Thailand	Kallayana Vipattipumiprates	13 October 2020	Ambassador[i]
Netherlands	Goverdina Christina (Ines) Coppoolse	13 October 2020	Ambassador
Hungary	Mária Éva Vass-Salazar	13 October 2020	Ambassador
Ireland	Eamonn Christopher McKee	13 October 2020	Ambassador
Serbia	Dejan Ralević	30 November 2020	Ambassador
Haiti	Wien-Weibert Arthus, Dr.	30 November 2020	Ambassador
El Salvador	Ricardo Alfonso Cisneros Rodriguez	30 November 2020	Ambassador
European Union	Melita Gabric	1 February 2021	Head of Delegation and Ambassador
Guatemala	Guisela Atalida Godinez Sazo	22 March 2021	Ambassador
Austria	Stefan Pehringer	8 February 2017	Ambassador
Trinidad and Tobago	Dennis Daniel Moses	29 March 2021	High Commissioner
Argentina	Eugenio Maria Curia	27 March 2018	Ambassador
Belize	Lynn Raymond Young	4 August 2021	High Commissioner
United Kingdom	Susannah Clare Goshko	23 August 2021	High Commissioner
Russia	Oleg Stepanov	9 September 2021	Ambassador
Ivory Coast	Bafetigue Ouattara	9 September 2021	Ambassador
Italy	Andrea Ferrari	9 September 2021	Ambassador
Iceland	Hlynur Gudjonsson	9 September 2021	Ambassador
Belgium	Patrick Guido M. Van Gheel	3 November 2021	Ambassador
Holy See	Ivan Jurkovic	2 December 2021	Ambassador[iii]
Slovenia	Andrej Gregor Rode	2 December 2021	Ambassador
Ghana	Anselm Ransford Adzete Sowah	2 December 2021	High Commissioner
Spain	Alfredo Martinez Serrano	7 December 2021	Ambassador
United States of America	David L. Cohen	7 December 2021	Ambassador
Solomon Islands	Jane Mugafalu Waetara	15 February 2022	High Commissioner
Qatar	Khalid Rashid S.H. Al-Mansouri	10 March 2022	Ambassador
Kiribati	Teburoro Tito	10 March 2022	Ambassador[i]
Tonga	Viliami Vainga Tone	10 March 2022	Ambassador[i]
Comoros	Issimail Chanfi	10 March 2022	Ambassador[i]
Mauritania	Sidi Mohamed Laghdaf	10 March 2022	Ambassador[i]
Benin	Jean-Claude Felix Do Rego	10 March 2022	Ambassador[ii]
Botswana	Onkokame Kitso Mokaila	10 March 2022	High Commissioner[ii]
Namibia	Margareth Natalie Mensah-Williams	10 March 2022	High Commissioner[ii]
Luxembourg	Nicole Catherine Marie Bintner	10 March 2022	Ambassador[ii]
Barbados	Gline Arley Clarke	27 April 2022	High Commissioner
Indonesia	Daniel Tumpal Sumurung Simanjuntak	27 April 2022	Ambassador
South Africa	Rieaz Shaik	27 April 2022	High Commissioner
Latvia	Kaspars Ozolins	27 April 2022	Ambassador
Ukraine	Yuliia Kovaliv	7 June 2022	Ambassador
Portugal	Antonio Manuel Torres Domingues Leao Rocha	7 June 2022	Ambassador
Poland	Witold Miroslaw Dzielski	7 June 2022	Ambassador
Japan	Kanji Yamanouchi	7 June 2022	Ambassador
Pakistan	Zaheer Aslam Janjua	7 June 2022	High Commissioner
Paraguay	Raul Antonio Montiel Gasto	22 September 2022	Ambassador
Ethiopia	Fitsum Arega Gebrekidan	22 September 2022	Ambassador
Estonia	Margus Rava	22 September 2022	Ambassador
Egypt	Ahmed Abdallah Ibrahim Hafez	22 September 2022	Ambassador
France	Michel Miraillet	22 September 2022	Ambassador
Bahamas	Vergeneas Alfred Gray	26 October 2022	High Commissioner
Moldova	Sergiu Odainic	23 November 2022	Ambassador
Switzerland	Olaf Andreas Kjelsen	23 November 2022	Ambassador
South Korea	Woongsoon Lim	23 November 2022	Ambassador
Guyana	Keith Linden George	23 November 2022	High Commissioner
Democratic Republic of Congo	Joksa Kabongo Ngoy	23 November 2022	Ambassador
India	Sanjay Kumar Verma	23 November 2022	High Commissioner
North Macedonia	Argon Budjaku	23 November 2022	Ambassador
Costa Rica	Adriana Solano Lacle	20 January 2023	Ambassador
Mauritius	Purmanund Jhugroo	20 January 2023	High Commissioner
Laos	Sisavath Inphachanh	20 January 2023	Ambassador
Samoa	Paolelei Luteru	20 January 2023	High Commissioner
Oman	Moosa Hamdan Moosa Al Tai	28 March 2023	Ambassador
Marshall Islands	Gerlald M Zackios	28 March 2023	Ambassador
Zimbabwe	Cecil Toendepi Chinenere	28 March 2023	Ambassador
Philippines	Maria Andrelita Austria	28 March 2023	Ambassador
Colombia	Carlos Arturo Morales Lopez	28 March 2023	Ambassador
Mexico	Carlos Manuel Joaquin Gonzalez	28 March 2023	Ambassador
Bulgaria	Plamen Georgiev Georgiev	26 June 2023	Ambassador
Honduras	Delia Beatriz Valle Marichal	26 June 2023	Ambassador
Turkey	Esra Demir	26 June 2023	Ambassador
Zambia	Kennedy Mpolobe Shepande	26 June 2023	Ambassador
Jamaica	Marsha Monique Coore Lobban	10 September 2023	High Commissioner
Chad	Bouroumdou Naloum	25 September 2023	Ambassador
Uruguay	Gustavo Anibal Alvarez Goyoaga	25 September 2023	Ambassador
Peru	Manuel Gerardo Talavera Espinar	25 September 2023	Ambassador
Slovak Republic	Viera Grigova	25 September 2023	Ambassador
Kyrgyz Republic	Baktybek Amanbaev	25 September 2023	Ambassador
Vietnam	Vinh Quang Pham	13 October 2023	Ambassador
Kazakhstan	Dauletbek Kussainov	13 October 2023	Ambassador
Mongolia	Sarantogos Erdenetsogt	13 October 2023	Ambassador
Israel	Iddo Moed	13 October 2023	Ambassador
Singapore	Chin Siong Tan	13 October 2023	High Commissioner
Seychelles	Ian Dereck Joseph Madeleine	13 October 2023	High Commissioner
Sweden	Signe Fenja Burgstaller	17 November 2023	Ambassador
Saudi Arabia	Amal Yahya Almoalimi	17 November 2023	Ambassador
Czechia	Martin Tlapa	17 November 2023	Ambassador
Brazil	Carlos Alberto Franco Franca	17 November 2023	Ambassador
Senegal	Gorgui Ciss	17 November 2023	Ambassador
Gambia	Momodou Lamin Bah	4 December 2023	High Commissioner
Cambodia	Sophea Eat	4 December 2023	Ambassador
Eswatini	Kennedy Fitzgerald Groening	4 December 2023	High Commissioner
Suriname	Jan Marten Willem Schalkwijk	4 December 2023	Ambassador
New Zealand	Cecile Hillyer	16 January 2024	High Commissioner
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Samuel Alharjai Berridge	17 February 2024	High Commissioner
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Aleksandar Bogdanic	20 February 2024	Ambassador
Jordan	Sabah Nizar Rashid Al Rafie	20 February 2024	Ambassador
Greece	Ekaterini Dimakis	20 February 2024	Ambassador
Algeria	Noureddine Sidi Abed	20 February 2024	Ambassador
Tunisia	Lassaad Boutara	20 February 2024	Ambassador
Iraq	Abdulrahman Hamid Mohamed Al-Hussaini	20 February 2024	Ambassador
Chile	Juan Carlos Garcia Perez de Arce	30 April 2024	Ambassador
Tanzania	Joseph Edward Sokoine	30 April 2024	High Commissioner
Malta	Mark Anthony Pace	30 April 2024	High Commissioner
Cuba	Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz	30 April 2024	Ambassador
Nepal	Bharat Raj Paudyal	30 April 2024	Ambassador
Republic of Congo	Appolinaire Aya	26 June 2024	Ambassador
China	Di Wang	26 June 2024	Ambassador
Uzbekistan	Furkat Sidikov	26 June 2024	Ambassador
Australia	Kate Logan	December 2024	High Commissioner

Other offices

Chargé d'affaires and other diplomatic heads

Chargé d'affaires a.i. and other diplomatic heads in Canada, as of July 2024^[update][4]

Sending country/entity	Name	Diplomatic title	Higher official title
Albania	Eliabeta Frroku	Second Secretary & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Algeria	Mokhtar Alloune	Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Azerbaijan	Vasif Cingiz Oglu Abutalibov	Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Bangladesh	Hossne Ayub Dewan	Deputy High Commissioner & Acting High Commissioner	High Commissioner
Brunei Darussalam	Suzianti Abdul Latip	Second Secretary and Acting High Commissioner	High Commissioner
Burkina Faso	Idrissa Nenin Soulama	Minister-Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Cameroon	Philippe Aime Landry Fouda Tsilla Otto	First Secretary & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	High Commissioner
Cyprus	Antonios Lemesianos	Acting High Commissioner	High Commissioner
Dominican Republic	Erick Augusto Bernard Mateo	Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Ecuador	Marisol Del Carmen Nieto Cueva	Minister & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Finland	Sari Susanna Uusi-Rauva	Deputy Head of Mission & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Gabon	Rosine Engone Ep Oliveira	First Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Georgia	George Meskheli	Minister-Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Germany	Karina Kaeuslmeier	Deputy Head of Mission & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Guinea	Alhassane Diabate	First Secretary & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Kenya	James Moni Manyange	Deputy Head of Mission & Acting High Commissioner	High Commissioner
Lesotho	Lereko Felix Maine	Counsellor & Acting High Commissioner	High Commissioner
Libya	Rashed A M Sharkasi	Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Madagascar	Sahondra Harilala Rakotoniaina	Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Malaysia	Moahmmad Al Hafiz Bin Mohd Nadzir	Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	High Commissioner
Myanmar	May Thazin Tun	Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Nigeria	Remigius Obioma Nzewuji	Minister and Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	High Commissioner
Norway	Anders Holmen Gulbrandsen	Minister-Counsellor and Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Panama	Thais Augusta Collado Castillo	First Secretary and Chargé d'affaires, a.i.	Ambassador
Sri Lanka	Anzul Banu Jhan	Deputy High Commissioner & Acting High Commissioner	High Commissioner
Sudan	Bakhit Ismail Dahya	Chargé d'affaires, e.p. (Ambassador)	Ambassador
Togolese Republic	Cofie Sena Rodrigue Woussido	First Counsellor & Acting High Commissioner	High Commissioner

Vacant offices

Vacant positions, as of July 2024^{[update][5][3]}

Sending country	Last officeholder	Credentials	Title
Angola	vacant		High Commissioner
Bhutan	vacant		Ambassador[i]
Bolivia	vacant		Ambassador
Burundi	vacant		Ambassador
Cabo Verde	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Cambodia	vacant		Ambassador
Central African Republic	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Equatorial Guinea	vacant		Ambassador[i]
Eritrea	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Fiji	vacant		Ambassador[i]
Grenada	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Iran	vacant[6]		Ambassador
Korea, Democratic People's Republic	vacant		Ambassador[i]
Liberia	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Malawi	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Maldives	vacant		Ambassador
Montenegro	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Mozambique	vacant		Ambassador
Nauru	vacant		Ambassador[i]
Nicaragua	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Niger	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Papua New Guinea	vacant		High Commissioner
Saint Lucia	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
São Tomé and Príncipe	vacant		Ambassador[i]
South Sudan	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Syria	vacant		Ambassador
Timor-Leste	vacant		Ambassador[ii]
Tuvalu	vacant		Ambassador[i]
Venezuela	vacant		Ambassador

See also

• Ambassadors from Canada