July 25, 2008
No. 164
The Honourable David Emerson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced the following diplomatic appointments s:
Mark Bailey becomes Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia and Turkmenistan.
G. Daniel Caron becomes Ambassador to Ukraine.
David Collins becomes High Commissioner to Malaysia.
Scott Heatherington becomes Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Lithuania.
Martin Loken becomes Consul General in Minneapolis (United States of America).
Claire A. Poulin becomes Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador.
François Rivest becomes Consul General in Guangzhou (People's Republic of China).
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Biographical notes on the appointees follow.
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Biographical Notes
Mark Bailey (BA, Honours [Political Science], University of Victoria, 1973) joine d the Department of External Affairs in 1973. Mr. Bailey has since been posted to Rabat, Abidjan, Jeddah and the Permanent Mission of Canada to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva. From 1992 to 1996, he served as minister-counsellor in Washington, D.C. In 1998, he was appointed Canada's ambassador to Morocco. In Ottawa, he has held positions in a number of divisions including the Personnel Division; the International Economic Relations Division; the International Finance and Investment Affair s Division; the Maghreb and Arabian Peninsula Division; and the Assignments Division, and was the director general of the Middle East and North Africa Bureau. He is currently Canada's ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic. Mr. Bailey and his wife R aja Bailey have three daughters. Mark Bailey succeeds Yves Brodeur.
G. Daniel Car on (BA [Economics], Université Laval, 1980) has been deputy head of mission and minister-counsellor at the Embassy of Canada in Mexico since August 2005. He has occupied several senior positions within the Government of Canada over the past 27 years. He was director of the Japan Division at the Department of External Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa and counsellor at the Mission of Canada to the European Union in Brussels. Prior to this, Mr. Caron served as deputy director, Northern Europe Division and completed an assignment as regional director with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. In the 1990s, Mr. Caron served as a trade commissioner with the Japan Division and, during the 1980s, consul and trade commissioner at the Consu late General of Canada in Boston. He was part of the Canadian team that negotiated with France concerning fishing rights around Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. In 1978, Mr. Caron represented Canada in Ouagadougou at an international youth conference hosted by La Francophonie's Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique. He and his wife Maria Aparicio have two children, Jean-Xavier and Marie-Lou. G. Daniel Caron succeeds Abina Dann.
David Collins (BA [History and Politics], Queen's University, 1975; BComm [Business Administration], Concordia University, 1979; MSc [Management Studies], University of Durham, 1980; ACIS, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, 1982; Senior Executive Development Program, Banff School of Advanced Management, 1994) joined the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce in 1976 after serving in Naval Reserve. Since joining Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, he has served in his home town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and abroad in Minneapolis, Warsaw, Ankara, Brussels (NATO Delegation) and Seoul, and was Canada's ambassador to Romania from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Collins has served on secondment as director general, International and Industry Programs at the Department of National Defence, and as director for Defence Partnership and Cooperation on the NATO Internat ional Secretariat in Brussels. In Ottawa, he has served as senior departmental assistant to the Minister for International Trade, as director, Northern Europe Division, and as inspector general. He currently serves as Canada's high commissioner to the Isl amic Republic of Pakistan. He and his wife Jacquie Collins have one son, Nicholas. David Collins succeeds David Summers.
Scott Heatherington (BA [Political Science], Queen's University, 1970) joined the Department of Manpower and Immigration in 1971 and has served abroad in Hong Kong, Moscow, Bangkok, London and Bonn. At H eadquarters, he served as head of the Orders-in-Council Unit, as intelligence analyst with the Facilitation and Enforcement Branch, as director, Refugee Policy, and as director, Strategic Direction within the Strategic Policy, Planning and Research Branch . He served on secondment with the Department of External Affairs and International Trade from 1983 to 1985 as deputy director, Immigration, Visitor and Enforcement Section, and from 1988 to 1990 as deputy director for Refugee and Humanitarian Programs. M r. Heatherington moved to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2000 as director of Foreign Intelligence. He currently serves as director and senior coordinator of the department's Inquiries Office. Scott Heatherington succeed s Claire Poulin.
Martin Loken (BASc [Systems Design Engineering], 1989 , BA [General], University of Waterloo, 1989) joined the Department of External Affairs and International Trade in 1990 and has served abroad in Prague (1992-1994) and at Canada's Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organization and the United Nati ons in Geneva (1998-2002). In the course of several Ottawa assignments, he has been responsible for a range of geographic and functional issues, including science and technology relations with Japan. Since 2002, he has served in the Trade Policy and Negot iations Branch, as deputy director and then director of the Regional Trade Policy Division (where he was responsible for several trade negotiations), and most recently as director of the Technical Barriers and Regulations Division. He and his wife Mariann e Loken have two children. Martin Loken succeeds Kim Butler.
Claire A. Poulin (BA [French studies], Université de Montréal, 1979; MA [Modern Literature], Université de Provence, 1980; DEA [French Literature and Civilization], Université de Provence, 1984) joined the Canadian International Development Agency as a writer/editor in 1989. Prev iously, she had worked as a film professor, proofreader and writer, program and liaison officer, audiovisual specialist in the Dominican Republic and communications officer in Tunisia. She joined the Department of External Affairs and International Trade in 1991 and has served abroad in Buenos Aires, Paris and Riga. In Ottawa, she served as a desk officer with Cooperation and Development, in the Economic Relations with Developing Countries Division and with the Relations with Central America and Caribbean Division. She also served as executive assistant to the director general for the Middle East and Africa; political and trade officer for the Iberian Peninsula, Western Europe Division; and as coordinator at the federal level of the Parliamentary Conferen ce of the Americas, South America and Inter-American Division. From 2001 to 2005, Ms. Poulin worked at the Parliament of Canada as director general of International and Interparliamentary Affairs, and as chief of protocol. She currently serves as Canada's ambassador to the republics of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. She is married to Gaston Gauvin. Ms. Poulin succeeds Stéphanie Allard-Gomez.
François Rivest (BA Honours [Operational Research], University of Ottawa, 1983; MBA [Finance], University of Manitoba, 1991) served in the Canadian Armed Forces and worked with the City of Winnipeg prior to joining the Department of External Affairs and International Trade in 1991. He was posted to the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo from 1995 to 1997 and returned there in 2002 as counsellor and section head, Resources, Agriculture and Food. At Headquarters, Mr. Rivest has held the positions of coordinator, International Trade and Economic Issues; outreach coordinator, Office of the Minis ter of International Trade, and deputy director, Overseas Operations. François Rivest is currently consul and senior trade commissioner at the Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong. Mr. Rivest succeeds Timothy Coughlin.
