Biographical notes

Ulric Shannon (BA Hons [History and Political Science], McGill University, 1997; MA [International Relations and Security Studies], York University, 1998) joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1999. At Headquarters, he has been director of the Media Relations Office. Overseas, he has served as political officer in Cairo, senior political officer in Ramallah and first secretary in Islamabad. In 2012, he was awarded the department’s foreign-language fellowship to pursue advanced studies in Arabic. From 2014 to 2016, he worked in Istanbul as country director for a stabilization consultancy, ARK. From 2016 to 2019, he served as consul general in Istanbul and, from 2019 to 2021, as ambassador to Iraq. In 2022, he was resident senior director for the National Democratic Institute in the West Bank and Gaza and a research associate at the University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies. Most recently, he was director general of the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program at Global Affairs Canada.