H.E. Donald Bobiash

Ambassador of Canada to ASEAN, Indonesia & Timor Leste

 

H.E. Donald Bobiash is currently Ambassador of Canada to the Republic of Indonesia, with accreditation to the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste, and the Canadian Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) in Jakarta.

 

He served as Director-General and Senior Advisor for Africa from 2009 till 2012, at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa, Canada.  Prior, from 2004, he served as Ambassador of Canada to Togo till 2006.  This is before he was appointed as the Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana where he served from 2006 till 2009.  He has also worked in Canadian missions in Islamabad, Pakistan and Japan since he joined Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1989.  The divisions he worked in were responsible for policy planning, South Asian Relations, Economic Relations with Developing Countries, South America Relations, La Francophonie and was later appointed the Director Southeast Asian Division.

 

Ambassador Bobiash has a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and Masters in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from the London School of Economics, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.  He started his university studies at the University of Saskatchewan, where he was awarded a BA in political science, and has conducted further studies at Laval University in Quebec City and l’Ecole National d’Administration in Dakar, Senegal, where he had a fellowship from the Rotary Foundation. Macmillan of London has published his book South-South Aid: How Developing Countries Help Each Other.