Feb
29
Ambassador’s Briefing: Canada’s Ambassador to Ukraine Reports on the State of the War and Future Bilateral Relations
Webcast with Natalka Cmoc, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine
Please contact Tammy Trepanier, Senior Event Planner to register: ttrepanier@cdhowe.org. Natalka Cmoc, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine
Natalka Cmoc was appointed Canada’s Ambassador to Ukraine in August 2023. She completed field research in Ukraine and Russia, including implementing Canadian technical assistance projects in Ukraine in the 1990s. She worked with EKOS Research Associates in public policy before joining the federal government in 2007, first at Health Canada, and then at the Canadian International Development Agency. She served as a counsellor for technical cooperation at the Embassy of Canada to Ukraine from 2011 to 2013, working on democracy and human rights programming. She then joined Global Affairs Canada’s Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force, where she was responsible for establishing the first security programming in Ukraine following Russia’s 2014 invasion, which included supporting Operation UNIFIER’s launch. In 2015, she moved to the Department of National Defence as director in the Infrastructure and Environment Branch and, in 2017, to Indigenous Services Canada as senior director of First Nations housing and infrastructure. In 2020, she became director general in the Science and Parliamentary Infrastructure Branch at Public Services and Procurement Canada, where she was responsible for complex infrastructure policy related to the modernization of the Parliamentary Precinct and to the Laboratories Canada strategy.
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