NEW ARRI VALS |dignitaries Adbul Kareem Kaab Ambassador of Iraq
Garth Chatoor High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago
Georgia Natalia Kordzaia Minister-counsellor and consul
Abdul Kareem Kaab’s career has spanned civil engineering and diplomacy, including two years at the infamous Abu Ghraib Prison, where he was taken for opposing Iraq’s dictatorship during his national military service as a civil engineer. After completing military service in 1989 (with a two-year prison interruption in the middle) he worked in civil engineering until 1996, at which time he immigrated to Germany and applied for political asylum. He then worked briefly and studied Islamic Science before returning to engineering in 2004. In 2009, his career would take a turn when he returned to Iraq with the rank of ambassador at the foreign ministry. Soon after, he was Iraqi ambassador to Finland (2010-2013) and non-resident ambassador to Estonia (2011-13). He returned to headquarters for three years before being sent to Ottawa. He is married to Dr. Khaulh AlKoofi and they have four children. He speaks English, German and Arabic.
High Commissioner Chatoor has a master of science degree in production engineering and management and a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering. He has also completed post-graduate work in management studies, systems analysis and design. From 2000 to 2011, he served as general manager of the Power Generation Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. (PowerGen), a company created out of the partial divestment of the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission. He has also held several directorships including with RBC Financial Caribbean Ltd., RBC Investment Management, Carib Glass Ltd. and RBC Merchant Bank. Chatoor is married to Carole Diane Chatoor and they have two children.
Ghana Elizabeth Nyantakyi Minister-Counsellor
Non-heads of mission
Nigeria Lucy Ocheme Attaché
Afghanistan Sayed Jawad Serat Third Secretary
Oman Fahad Sulaiman Khalaf Al Kharusi Counsellor
Argentina Sebastien Juan Palou Second Secretary
Russia Aleksandr Govorukhin Attaché Igor Starkov Defence Attaché
Credentials photos compliments of Rideau Hall
Shirley Skerritt-Andrew High Commissioner for St. Kitts and Nevis
High Commissioner Skerritt-Andrew is the first resident high commissioner to serve in her country’s newly opened mission in Canada. Skerritt-Andrew is an economist and historian by training and has worked in the public sector in the Caribbean as well as the United Kingdom. Her most recent diplomatic posting was to Brussels, between 2008 and 2013, where she served as ambassador to Belgium and the European Union for four Eastern Caribbean States. She was also their nonresident ambassador to Sweden. As a long-time adviser to the prime minister, she became the main interlocutor for the Global Environment Facility in St. Kitts and Nevis and has worked on alternative energy issues. She’s interested in geo-thermal energy development and biofuels as a bi-product of sugar cane. She hopes to co-operate extensively with Canada on green growth and technology. diplomat and international canada
Australia Grant Stephen Edwards Minister-Counsellor Anthony James Murfett Minister-Counsellor
Honduras Arianna Julihsa Montenegro Sosa Second Secretary India Arun Kumar Sahu Deputy High Commissioner Japan Airi Kuya Second Secretary Macedonia Savo Sibinoski Deputy head of mission Mexico Iker Reyes Godelmann Minister Carlos Eduardo Vargas Suarez Deputy naval attaché Myanmar Thanda Hla Myint Second secretary New Zealand Wayne John Morris Air attaché
Saint Kitts And Nevis Onsley Kervin Lloyd Counsellor
Belarus Dimitry Basik Counsellor and chargé d'affaires
Senegal Tamsir Faye First Counsellor
Brazil Jefson Borges Defence an air attaché
Sudan Nura Osman M. Suleiman First secretary
Chile Rafael Reinaldo Rojas Agurto Attaché
Ukraine Yurii Nykytiuk Minister-counsellor
China Chang Che Second secretary Hongwei Cui Second secretary Zhiwen Li Second secretary Yiren Mao Attaché
United Kingdom Ann Cowan Second Secretary Edward Jim Evans Second Secretary
Cuba Pavel Dominguez Gutierrez Attaché
United States Of America Daniel Christopher Acker Second secretary and vice-consul Elizabeth Moore Aubin Minister-counsellor and deputy chief of mission Calvin Griffith Jones Assistant attaché
Finland Jarno Mika Kristian Valkeapaa Counsellor
Venezuela Jissette Carolina Abreu Lopez Second Secretary
France Mathieu Antoine Bernard Schuster First Secretary
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