The Canada Embassy in Algeria changes its head. Ambassador Michael Callan gives way to diplomat Robin Wettlaufer, the Canadian government announces.
In a statement released on Wednesday January 22 on Wednesday, January 22, the Canadian Foreign Ministry announced the appointment of Diplomat Robin Wettlaufer at the head of the Canada Embassy in Algeria.
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“The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, announced the diplomatic appointment of Robin Wettlaufer as an extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the Democratic and Popular Algerian Republic,” said the statement.
Robin Wettlaufer succeeds Michael Callan at the head of Canadian diplomatic representation in Algeria. The latter was appointed ambassador to Algeria in 2021.
Holder of a bachelor in international relations at the University of British Columbia in 1998 and a master’s degree in political science at York University (Toronto) in 2000, Robin Wettlaufer joined the Canadian government in 1998.
She held her first position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, where she worked as a file manager on Iraq and as a conflict prevention councilor for the G8 foreign ministers process.
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She also worked in the Directorate of Regional Security and Peacekeeping as well as in Japanese Directorate, the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on her website.
Between 2010 and 2011, Robin Wettlaufer held the position of main advisor for the peace process in Darfur. Between 2011 and 2013, the position of assistant director of the working group on Sudan and South Sudan.
She also served abroad for several long periods: from 2005 to 2008 in Ramallah, from 2008 to 2010 in Islamabad and from 2014 to 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey, as a special representative of Canada for Syria.
The new ambassador of Canada to Algeria again returned to Ramallah, as a representative to the Palestinian Authority, from 2019 to 2022.
Over the past two years, from 2022 to 2024, she has been director of the Canadian Center for International Digital Policy and the quick response mechanism.
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