Louise Blais was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations from 2017 to 2021, responsible for the 2030 Agenda and the campaign for the Security Council. She also served on the UNICEF Executive Board where she was elected as Vice-Chair in 2019. Appointed co-facilitator by the President of the UN General Assembly, she led the negotiations for the resolution of the 31st Special Session on COVID-19. She began her career as an Art Theft Analyst at Interpol. She then served as Program Manager for the National Archives Development Program from 1992-1996 before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1992. Abroad, she was first posted to the Washington Embassy, then to Tokyo and Paris. In Ottawa, she held the positions of Director of Public Diplomacy and Executive Director of Human Resources Management before being appointed Consul General in Atlanta. Louise Blais has served on several boards including the Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, and the Tokyo International Film Festival as well as the Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Ballet. She is an alumna of the Trans-Atlantic and World Young Leaders Forum (2001, 2002, and 2005) of the BWM Herbert Quandt Foundation where she remains a member of the Responsible Leaders Network, a global network of leaders. She holds the Robson Lecturer Emeritus designation at Emory University. She is also a guest lecturer at the Winter School of International Relations at Laval University.
Expertise
- Multilateral Organizations
- Canada-US Relations
- International Trade
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