Biographical notes – Diplomatic appointments

Robert Brookfield (B.Arts Sc., McMaster University, 1992; LLB, University of British Columbia, 1995) joined the federal government in 2001 after five years as a litigator in private practice in Vancouver, B.C. He led the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement legal team; led the Technical Barriers to Trade Division (2012 to 2014); acted as primary legal counsel or negotiator of elements of many free trade negotiations, including the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Trade Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership; and conducted significant litigation for Canada at the WTO. He was director general of the Trade Law Bureau (2014 to 2020). At the Department of Justice, he was deputy assistant deputy minister (2020 to 2022) and director general of Criminal Law Policy in the Policy Sector (2022 to 2024). Overseas, he served at the embassy in Moscow from 2003 to 2005. Most recently, he was director general of both the Strategic Export Controls Bureau and the Sanctions Bureau.

Juliette Gundy (BA Hons [Humanities], Carleton University, 2001; MA [International Affairs], Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, 2003; Mid-Career Master in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2014) joined the Government of Canada in 2004 and has held positions at Global Affairs Canada, the Privy Council Office and the Department of National Defence. In Ottawa, she has worked as a defence policy officer, a stabilization program analyst, the senior adviser for emergency management in the Privy Council Office (2014 to 2017) and the deputy director of the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations pilot project (2017 to 2020). Her positions overseas include a secondment to the United Nations Mission in Sudan as a security sector reform adviser (2010 to 2011), heading the African Union Liaison Unit in the Embassy to Ethiopia (2021 to 2023) and, most recently, at the request of the Netherlands, serving as NATO Mission Iraq ambassador (2024 to 2025). Outside the Government of Canada, she has also worked with the Government of New Zealand in the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority in Christchurch and with the United Nations Development Programme on mine action in Eritrea.