Cameron MacKay

Cameron MacKay joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1995. At Headquarters, he has served as director of regional trade policy, director general for China trade policy, director general of the Trade Negotiations Bureau and director general of the Trade Sectors Bureau. He has also served as director of operations at the Privy Council Office’s Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat.

Abroad, he has served at Canada’s Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organization in Geneva and as ambassador to Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua and to Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Most recently, he served as high commissioner in India and ambassador to Bhutan and to Nepal. Ambassador MacKay arrived in Mexico in December 2024.

He earned a BA in Economics and Industrial Relations from McGill University.

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