CACC PERTH Lunch Boardroom Briefing

Join us for our first boardroom briefing in Perth since COVID-19 landed on our shores. We invite you to meet the High Commissioner for Canada in Australia, His Excellency Mr. Mark Glauser, the Consul General for Canada, Mr. André François Giroux and the Consul & Senior Trade Commissioner, Ms. Sarah Quigley along with CACC board members as we discuss the state of the world and the opportunities for Canada and Australia.

With limited space, please RSVP by 31 January 2022.  

COVID protocols in place in line with the WA Government, Department of Health advice. Please note you must be double vaccinated to attend.

Mark Glauser is High Commissioner of Canada to Australia, a position he has held since October 2019. He is also High Commissioner to Nauru, High Commissioner-designate to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, and Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. He is a career diplomat, having previously served abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, Amman, Jordan and Washington, DC. During his 28 years of public service, he has held a number of leadership positions in Ottawa and abroad dealing with international security, national security and intelligence, Canada-US relations and the Middle East. He holds a BA (Honours - History and Political Science) from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA (Political Science) from Dalhousie University. He enjoys hiking and cycling (slowly) and recently took up golf. He and his wife, Diane, have two adult children.

André François Giroux (LLB [Civil Law], University of Montréal, 1992; LLM [International Business Law], McGill University, 1994; LLM [European Community Law], College of Europe, 1995; MBA, University of Montréal, 2001) joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1995.

He served abroad at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (1996 to 1999), in part during Canada’s term on the Security Council, and as counsellor at the Embassy to France (2004 to 2008).

In Canada, he has had assignments in the International Trade Law Bureau, in the International Economic Relations and Summits Division and in the Office of Protocol.

From 2008 to 2010, he was director of the Non-Proliferation, Disarmament and Space Division, and from 2010 to 2012, director of the Office of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Most recently, Mr. Giroux was the NAFTA secretary and director of the Trade Agreements Secretariat, after having served as ambassador to Denmark from 2012 to 2016.

Mr. Giroux is presently the Consul General of Canada in Sydney (Australia).

Sarah Quigley joined Global Affairs Canada in 2007 after working as a corporate lawyer with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.

Sarah has served in the Office of the Deputy Minister of International Trade and in the International Law Bureau as a specialist in economic sanctions law.

Outside of headquarters, Sarah has served in Washington, DC as Special Advisor to the Canadian Ambassador to the United States; as well as management roles in New Zealand and Australia.

Sarah currently represents Canada as Consul and Senior Trade Commissioner at the Canadian Consulate in Sydney, Australia.

ABOUT THE CACC

The Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce (CACC) is a non-profit volunteer based organisation that aims to bring businesses together to facilitate strong economic and trade relationships between Canada and Australia.

Host or Publisher Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce