List of ambassadors and high commissioners to Canada

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Template:Short description 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, since August 2025Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[2]

Sending country/entity Name[1][3] Credentials
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Title
File:Flag of San Marino.svg San Marino Damiano Beleffi Template:Dts Ambassador[lower-roman 1]
File:Flag of Monaco.svg Monaco Maguy Maccario-Doyle Template:Dts Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen Jamal Abdullah Yahya Al-Sallal Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Turkmenistan Meret Orazov Template:Dts Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Djibouti.svg Djibouti Mohamed Siad Douale Template:Dts Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg Antigua and Barbuda Ronald Sanders, Sir Template:Dts High Commissioner[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Louanne Gaylene Gilchrist Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Palau.svg Palau Hersey Kyota Template:Dts Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Fadi Ziadeh Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain Shaikh Abdulla Rashed Abdulla AlKhalifa 29 January 2018 Ambassador
File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco Souriya Otmani Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia Anahit Harutyunyan Template:Dts Ambassador
Template:Flagcountry Mohammad Hassan Soroosh Yousufzai Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Rwanda.svg Rwanda Prosper Higiro Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia Vice Skračić Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Kosovo.svg Kosovo Adriatik Kryeziu Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Kallayana Vipattipumiprates Template:Dts Ambassador[lower-roman 1]
File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia Dejan Ralević Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador Ricardo Alfonso Cisneros Rodriguez Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania Bogdan Maniou 22 March 2021 Ambassador
File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala Guisela Atalida Godinez Sazo Template:Dts Ambassador
File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Maria Josefina Martinez Gramuglia 29 March 2021 Ambassador
File:Flag of Belize.svg Belize Lynn Raymond Young 4 August 2021 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Oleg Stepanov 9 September 2021 Ambassador
File:Flag of Côte d'Ivoire.svg Ivory Coast Bafetigue Ouattara 9 September 2021 Ambassador
File:Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland Hlynur Gudjonsson 9 September 2021 Ambassador
File:Flag of Vatican City (2023–present).svg Holy See Ivan Jurkovic 2 December 2021 Ambassador[lower-roman 3]
File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia Andrej Gregor Rode 2 December 2021 Ambassador
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain Alfredo Martinez Serrano 7 December 2021 Ambassador
File:Flag of the Solomon Islands.svg Solomon Islands Jane Mugafalu Waetara 15 February 2022 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar Khalid Rashid S.H. Al-Mansouri 10 March 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Kiribati.svg Kiribati Teburoro Tito 10 March 2022 Ambassador[lower-roman 1]
File:Flag of Tonga.svg Tonga Viliami Vainga Tone 10 March 2022 Ambassador[lower-roman 1]
File:Flag of the Comoros.svg Comoros Issimail Chanfi 10 March 2022 Ambassador[lower-roman 1]
File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia Margareth Natalie Mensah-Williams 10 March 2022 High Commissioner[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Barbados.svg Barbados Gline Arley Clarke 27 April 2022 High Commissioner
File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Rieaz Shaik 27 April 2022 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia Kaspars Ozolins 27 April 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal Antonio Manuel Torres Domingues Leao Rocha 7 June 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland Witold Miroslaw Dzielski 7 June 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Kanji Yamanouchi 7 June 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Paraguay.svg Paraguay Raul Antonio Montiel Gasto 22 September 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia Margus Rava 22 September 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Ahmed Abdallah Ibrahim Hafez 22 September 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of France.svg France Michel Miraillet 22 September 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas Vergeneas Alfred Gray 26 October 2022 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Moldova.svg Moldova Sergiu Odainic 23 November 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Olaf Andreas Kjelsen 23 November 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana Keith Linden George 23 November 2022 High Commissioner
Template:Country data Democratic Republic of Congo Joksa Kabongo Ngoy 23 November 2022 Ambassador
Template:Country data North Macedonia Argon Budjaku 23 November 2022 Ambassador
File:Flag of Laos.svg Laos Sisavath Inphachanh 20 January 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Samoa.svg Samoa Paolelei Luteru 20 January 2023 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe Cecil Toendepi Chinenere 28 March 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Carlos Arturo Morales Lopez 28 March 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Carlos Manuel Joaquin Gonzalez 28 March 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria Plamen Georgiev Georgiev 26 June 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia Kennedy Mpolobe Shepande 26 June 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica Marsha Monique Coore Lobban 10 September 2023 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Chad.svg Chad Bouroumdou Naloum 25 September 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay Gustavo Anibal Alvarez Goyoaga 25 September 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru Manuel Gerardo Talavera Espinar 25 September 2023 Ambassador
Template:Country data Slovak Republic Viera Grigova 25 September 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Vinh Quang Pham 13 October 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan Dauletbek Kussainov 13 October 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia Sarantogos Erdenetsogt 13 October 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel Iddo Moed 13 October 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore Chin Siong Tan 13 October 2023 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Signe Fenja Burgstaller 17 November 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Amal Yahya Almoalimi 17 November 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechia Martin Tlapa 17 November 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Carlos Alberto Franco Franca 17 November 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal Gorgui Ciss 17 November 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of The Gambia.svg Gambia Momodou Lamin Bah 4 December 2023 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Eswatini.svg Eswatini Kennedy Fitzgerald Groening 4 December 2023 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Suriname.svg Suriname Jan Marten Willem Schalkwijk 4 December 2023 Ambassador
File:Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg Saint Kitts and Nevis Samuel Alharjai Berridge 17 February 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina Aleksandar Bogdanic 20 February 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan Sabah Nizar Rashid Al Rafie 20 February 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Ekaterini Dimakis 20 February 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria Noureddine Sidi Abed 20 February 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Lassaad Boutara 20 February 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq Abdulrahman Hamid Mohamed Al-Hussaini 20 February 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile Juan Carlos Garcia Perez de Arce 30 April 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania Joseph Edward Sokoine 30 April 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Malta.svg Malta Mark Anthony Pace 30 April 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz 30 April 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Nepal.svg   Nepal Bharat Raj Paudyal 30 April 2024 Ambassador
Template:Country data Republic of Congo Appolinaire Aya 26 June 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Di Wang 26 June 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan Furkat Sidikov 26 June 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon XXX Ngola Philip Ngwese 13 September 2024 High Commissioner
Template:Country data Turkiye Can Dizdar 13 September 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany Matthias Luettenberg 13 September 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh Nadiha Sobhan 13 September 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador Esteban Jabier Crespo Polo 9 October 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Grietje Landman 9 October 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland John Concannon 9 October 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Europe.svg European Union Geneviève Tuts 9 October 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus Stavros Hatziyiannis 9 October 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria Andreas Rendl 9 October 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Albania.svg Albania Artemis Malo 9 October 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates Abdulrahman Ali Almur Ali Alneyadi 4 December 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia Tewodros Girma Abebe 4 December 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Carolyne Kamende Daudi 4 December 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg Jean-Claude Kugener 4 December 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Gabon.svg Gabon Alexis Bengone 4 December 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Kate Logan 9 December 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi Esme Jynet Chombo 10 December 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique Alfredo Fabiao Nuvunga 10 December 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola Agostinho de Carvalho dos Santos Van-Dunem 10 December 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia Shazelina Binti Zainul Abidin 10 December 2024 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Nikolaj Harris 10 December 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Alessandro Cattaneo 10 December 2024 Ambassador
File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Muhammad Saleem 15 January 2025 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania Egidijus Meilunas 15 January 2025 Ambassador
File:Flag of Lesotho.svg Lesotho Malehlanye Constantinus Ralejoe 15 January 2025 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland Hanna-Leena Korteniemi 15 January 2025 Ambassador
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Robert John Tinline 20 February 2025 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Bhutan.svg Bhutan Pema Lektup Dorji 3 March 2025 Ambassador
File:Flag of Equatorial Guinea.svg Equatorial Guinea Crisantos Obama Ondo 3 March 2025 Ambassador
File:Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji Ratu Ilisoni Caucau Cabealawa Vuidreketi 3 March 2025 Ambassador
File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic Jose Alfonso Blanco Conde 3 March 2025 Ambassador
File:Flag of Grenada.svg Grenada Sylvester Quarless 15 April 2025 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Andorra.svg Andorra Joan Forner Rovira 29 April 2025 Ambassador
File:Flag of Cambodia.svg Cambodia Chhea Keo 29 April 2025 Ambassador
File:Flag of Maldives.svg Maldives Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed 29 April 2025 High Commissioner
File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana Mpho Churchill O Mophuting 29 April 2025 High Commissioner
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States of America Peter Hoekstra 29 April 2025 Ambassador

Other offices

Chargé d'affaires and other diplomatic heads

Chargé d'affaires a.i. and other diplomatic heads in Canada, since August 2025Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[4]
Sending country/entity Name Diplomatic title Higher official title
File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan Vasif Cingiz Oglu Abutalibov Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium Filip Paul G. Vandenbroeke Deputy Head of Mission & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Brunei.svg Brunei Darussalam Suzianti Abdul Latip Second Secretary and Acting High Commissioner High Commissioner
File:Flag of Burkina Faso.svg Burkina Faso Idrissa Nenin Soulama Minister-Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica Victor Manuel Porras Fernandez Minister-Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
Template:Country data Georgia Bakari Makaridze Minister-Counsellor Ambassador
File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana Simon Atieku Minister & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. High Commissioner
File:Flag of Guinea.svg Guinea Alhassane Diabate First Secretary & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Haiti.svg Haiti Marie-Françoise Suzan Minister-Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Honduras (2022-).svg Honduras Aldo Federico Rosales Espinoza Minister-Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary Katalin Kapocsne Haas Deputy Head of Mission & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of India.svg India Chinmoy Naik Deputy High Commissioner & Acting High Commissioner High Commissioner
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Heru Santoso Minister-Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait Ali H A A M Alastad First Secretary & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Libya.svg Libya Rashed A M Sharkasi CounsellorCounsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Madagascar.svg Madagascar Sahondra Harilala Rakotoniaina Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Mali.svg Mali Amadou Diallo Minister-Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Mauritania.svg Mauritania Aly Ba Second Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar May Thazin Tun Counsellor & Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Joshua Wayne Hauraki Deputy Head of Mission & Acting High Commissioner High Commissioner
File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Abba Kawu Zanna Minister and Acting High Commissioner High Commissioner
File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway Trygve Bendiksby Minister-Counsellor and Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Panama.svg Panama Thais Augusta Collado Castillo First Secretary and Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines Rea Oreta Minister, Consul General and Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone Sheku Mesali Deputy Head of Mission & Acting High Commissioner High Commissioner
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Younggi Ahn Minister and Chargé d'affaires, a.i. Ambassador
File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka Kiritharan Kumarasamy First Secretary and Chargé d'affaires, a.i. High Commissioner
File:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan Bakhit Ismail Dahya Chargé d'affaires, e.p. (Ambassador) Ambassador
File:Flag of Togo (3-2).svg Togolese Republic Cofie Sena Rodrigue Woussido First Counsellor & Acting High Commissioner High Commissioner
File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago Joanne Melissa Alfred Counsellor & Acting High Commissioner High Commissioner
File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda Allan Kajik Deputy Head of Mission & Acting High Commissioner High Commissioner

Vacant offices

Vacant positions, since August 2025Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5][3]
Sending country Last officeholder Credentials Title
File:Flag of Benin.svg Benin vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of Burundi.svg Burundi vacant Ambassador
Template:Country data Cabo Verde vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Cambodia.svg Cambodia vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg Central African Republic vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Eritrea.svg Eritrea vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Grenada.svg Grenada vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran vacant[6] Ambassador
File:Flag of North Korea.svg Korea, Democratic People's Republic vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 1]
Template:Country data Kyrgyz Republic vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Maldives.svg Maldives vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of the Marshall Islands.svg Marshall Islands vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of Montenegro.svg Montenegro vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Nauru.svg Nauru vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 1]
File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Niger.svg Niger vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Oman.svg Oman vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Papua New Guinea vacant High Commissioner
File:Flag of Saint Lucia.svg Saint Lucia vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe.svg São Tomé and Príncipe vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 1]
File:Flag of Seychelles.svg Seychelles vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of South Sudan.svg South Sudan vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of East Timor.svg Timor-Leste vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 2]
File:Flag of Tuvalu.svg Tuvalu vacant Ambassador[lower-roman 1]
File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine vacant Ambassador
File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela vacant Ambassador

See also

References

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  1. a b c d e f g h i Co-accredited as Permanent Representative to the United Nations; resides in New York City.
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Co-accredited as Ambassador to the United States; resides in Washington, D.C.
  3. Titled Apostolic Nuncio rather than Ambassador.

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External links

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