Calsey Willmore Johnson
High Commissioner for the Bahamas
Dr. Johnson was a career broadcaster for three decades and was general manager of the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas (BCB) — the country’s national broadcasting system — for 14 years. He served a five-year term as executive chairman of the board of the BCB.
He also served as a senator in the Bahamas parliament for two years (2002 to 2004) and, after his career in broadcasting, he became vice-president of marketing and sales with British Fidelity Insurance and was a member of the CL Financial Group.
Dr. Johnson’s posting in Canada represents a return for him as he studied journalism at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) from 1967 to 1972.
He is married to Dulcena Johnson and has one daughter.
Niels Boel Abrahamsen
Ambassador of Denmark
Mr. Abrahamsen joined the foreign ministry in 1993, after completing a master’s degree in economics at the University of Copenhagen and working at the ministry of finance for two years.
By 1995, he was first secretary in Austria and returned three years later to head the foreign ministry’s EU department. In 2001, he was minister-counsellor at the embassy in Washington and a year later, he became deputy head of the finance department at the foreign ministry.
In 2006, he was made head of security and three years later, ambassador for security, services and digitalization at the ministry. In 2012, he became ambassador to Afghanistan for a year before being posted to Canada.
Mr. Abrahamsen is married to Karen Eva Lind Abrahamsen and they have two sons.
Gita Kalmet
Ambassador of Estonia
Ms. Kalmet studied drama at the Tallinn State Conservatoire and then spent the first five years of her career as an
actress. In 1993, she attended the Estonian School of Diplomacy and began her foreign service career that same year, as a desk officer in the political department.
Her first posting was to France in 1999 after which she returned to Tallinn as a desk officer for NATO. In 2003, she became director of the EU current affairs division and three years later, she was appointed ambassador to the Netherlands, where she spent five years. In 2011, she became director-general of the public diplomacy department and was appointed to Canada two years later.
Ms. Kalmet speaks Estonian, English, French and Russian. She is married to theatre director Madis Kalmet. They have two sons.
Hau Do Suan
Ambassador of Myanmar
Mr. Suan joined the foreign ministry in 1979 and served in the political department for two years before being seconded to the ministry of education as an assistant to the deputy minister.
Between 1983 and 1999, he had various jobs, including as deputy assistant director of the legal division, third secretary to the mission at the UN and later in Geneva, head of the international organization division, second secretary and deputy head-of-mission in Canberra.
In 2003, he was posted as minister-counsellor to the embassy in China and then became consul general at the Kunming mission in China. In 2009, he was deputy director-general of the political division before being sent to Canada.
Mr. Suan is married to Nwe Nwe Aye and they have two children.
Cornelis Johannes Kole
Ambassador of the Netherlands
C.J. Kole joined the foreign ministry in 1984. Between 1985 and 1995, he held postings at the embassy in Warsaw, in the Queen’s cabinet and at the foreign ministry’s headquarters in The Hague.
In 1995, he became deputy-director of the protocol department and then a project leader in the foreign ministry’s human resources department. After that, he became a policy officer and spokesman at the EU embassy in Brussels, after which he returned to headquarters to become director of the communications branch.
In 2006, he was posted to Paris as deputy-head-of-mission and then became ambassador to Iran in 2010, completing the posting just before coming to Ottawa.
Mr. Kole is married to Saskia Jordans and has a master’s of law from Groningen University.
Non-heads of mission
Afghanistan
Laila Ayan
First secretary
Mohd Dawood Qayomi
Counsellor and chargé d’affaires
Australia
Jamie Ross Ferdinand
Attaché
Katherine Jeffrey
First secretary
Belarus
Timofei Demin
Second secretary
China
Yingchun Hong
Counsellor
Wanrong Huang
Third secretary
Jun Jiang
Attaché
Quanyuan Lu,
Second secretary
Croatia
Ljubica Beric
First secretary
Egypt
Ahmed Mamdouh Madian Elbuckley
Second secretary
Ezzelden Hassan Aly Mabrouk
Attaché
Finland
Jaakko Tuomas Jurvelin
Assistant military, naval and air attaché
France
Stephane Emmanuel Schorderet
Counsellor
Bruno Andre Jacques J. Toussaint
Third secretary
Germany
Jorn Rosenberg
Minister-counsellor
Markus Harald Sam
Attaché
India
Rajesh Agarwal
First secretary
India
Tsewang Namgyal
Deputy High Commissioner
Indonesia
Ellyta Rakhmaningrum
Attaché
Ireland
Elizabeth Anne Keogh
Second secretary
Israel
Moshe Elimelech
Second secretary
Eitan Weiss
First secretary
Japan
Masashi Hattori
First secretary
Osamu Iwasa
Counsellor
Masuya Nishikuramori
Second secretary
Keishi Suzuki
Counsellor
Ryo Tokunaga
Third secretary
Junko Wada
Third secretary
Korea, Republic
Jang Min Choi
Defence Attaché
Tok Won Lee
Counsellor
Lesotho
Jacob Malefetsane Nhlapo
First secretary
Libya
Mohamed Abdulnaser
Minister
Wesam Nassar
Attaché
Malaysia
Deddy Faisal Bin Ahmad Salleh,
First secretary
Rosfan Bin Ramlee
Third secretary
Mexico
Rodrigo Alcocer Urueta
Third secretary
Raul Lopez Mercado
Minister
Mongolia
Munkh-Ulzii Tserendorj
First secretary
Nepal
Dilip Kumar Paudel
Counsellor
New Zealand
Elizabeth Katherine H. Halliday
Deputy high commissioner
Romania
Adrian Ligor
Minister-counsellor
Russia
Sergey Petrov
Attaché
Alexey Ulanov
First secretary
Evgeny Zhuganov
Attaché
Saudi Arabia
Zaid Mukhlid Z. Alharbi,
Counsellor
Mohammed Quayid M. Almutairi
Attaché
Sweden
Bengt Alexandersson,
Defence attaché
Switzerland
Alexandra Elena Baumann
First secretary and deputy head of mission
Thailand
Aidsada Sundaramani
First secretary
Turkey
Serkan Sevim
Defence, military, naval and air attaché
Sinan Ustunbas
Attaché
United Kingdom
Anthony Julian Coulter
Matthew Richard A. Lawson
First secretary
United States of America
Russel John Brown
Minister-counsellor
Ryan Kirby Griffin
Assistant attaché
Edwin Richard Nolan Jr.
Minister-counsellor
Joshua Grant Pressley
Second secretary
Richard Milton Sanders
Deputy head of mission
Jeffrey Erling Zimmerman
Attaché
