Patrick Hébert is new Consul General in Chandigarh
OTTAWA: The government of Canada recently announced new diplomatic appointments to various countries. Three new appointments were made for India.
While Cameron MacKay has been appointed Canada’s High Commissioner to India, replacing Nadir Patel, Patrick Hébert has become Consul General in Chandigarh, and Diedrah Kelly replaced Annie Dubé as Consul General in Mumbai.
The announcement was made by Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, on December 23.
MacKay who has a BA [Economics and Industrial Relations], McGill University, McGill University, 1990; MES, York University, 1996) joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1995.
At Headquarters, he served as director of regional trade policy from 2008 to 2010, director general for China trade policy from 2012 to 2013, director general of the Trade Negotiations Bureau from 2013 to 2015 and director general of the Trade Sectors Bureau from 2015 to 2017.
Most recently in Ottawa, he served as director of operations at the Privy Council Office’s Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat.
Abroad, he served at Canada’s permanent mission in Geneva from 2001 to 2006, as Canada’s ambassador to Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua from 2010 to 2012 and as Canada’s ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste from 2019 to 2021.
Patrick Hébert becomes Consul General in Chandigarh. He replaces Mia Yen. “Really honoured and happy to be appointed Consul General of Canada in #Chandigarh. Looking forward to joining Team 🇨🇦 in #India and working with our friends in #Punjab, #HimachalPradesh, #Haryana and #Uttarakhand to support Canada-India relations,” he wrote on his Twitter.
Hébert joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1998. At Headquarters, he was acting director of the Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Group; he was deputy director in this unit from 2010 to 2011, when it was coordinating Canada’s responses to the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsunami in Japan in 2011.
He worked in the Defence and Security Relations Division from 2003 to 2006 and was responsible for Asia and the Americas. He first served abroad at the Embassy to France from 2000 to 2003. He served as political counsellor at the Embassy to Serbia from 2006 to 2009 and at the Embassy to Sweden from 2011 to 2016. Most recently, Mr. Hébert served as political, economic and public affairs counsellor at the Embassy to South Korea.
