New arrivals
Tariq Azim Khan
High Commissioner for Pakistan
Ambassador Khan holds a bachelor of science, a post-graduate diploma in industrial administration and a master’s of business administration.
After graduating, he worked as a consultant with Industrial Society U.K. and as a director for his family-owned telecommunications business before serving as a media adviser for the Pakistani high commissioner in London, beginning in 2000. Three years later, he was elected to Pakistan’s Senate and served two terms between 2003 and 2012. He was chairman of the Senate’s standing committee for planning and development, a member of the committee on foreign affairs and a member of the committee on information. He also served as minister of state for overseas Pakistanis from 2004 to 2006 and minister of state for information and broadcasting from 2006 to 2007.
Khan is married to Adline Azim Khan and has two sons. He speaks Urdu and Punjabi fluently.
Marcela Lopez Bravo
Ambassador of Peru
Ambassador Lopez Bravo is a career diplomat who is making a return to Canada after having served here as first secretary in 1982.
Lopez Bravo joined the diplomatic service in 1972 as a third secretary. She has held several positions at Brazil’s foreign ministry headquarters over the years, and several postings abroad as well. Her first posting came as third secretary in charge of consular affairs in Brazil after which she came to Canada as first secretary until 1986 when she became first secretary at the embassy in Cuba.
In 1992, she became minister-counsellor at the embassy in Honduras and a year later, held the same position at the embassy in Venezuela. In 1999, she was minister of the embassy in Italy, with cross-accreditation as assistant permanent representative for International Organizations based in Rome. In 2007, she became ambassador to Korea.
Lopez Bravo is married with two sons.
Non-heads of mission
Denmark
Inuuteq Holm Olsen
Minister
France
Mathieu Antoine Bernard Schuster
First secretary
Guyana
Marsha Andrea Caddett
Counsellor
India
Sanjay Banga
Attaché
Anupama Deolal
Attaché
Iraq
Yasmin Y. M. H. Al-Sabaa
Second secretary
Libya
Salah Nagib R. Bogrin
Assistant attaché
Netherlands
Arie Cornelis Plieger
First secretary
Portugal
José Luis Afonso Galrito
Defence attaché
Qatar
Mohamed Abdulaziz N. A. Al-Nassr
Attaché
Romania
Aurelia Zmeu
Counsellor
Russia
Evgenii Gunko
Attaché
Alexander Zelenin
Attaché
Saudi Arabia
Fahad Hussain H. Almutairi
Attaché
Turkey
Ferudun Bilgic
Attaché
Aydin Aydin
Attaché
Ergul Ozdemir
First secretary
Uruguay
Trilce Gervaz Muniz
Second secretary and consul
Venezuela
Jissette Carolina Abreu Lopez
Second secretary
Yemen
Ahmed Ali Yahya Al-Emad
Counsellor and chargé d’affaires
