Cameron Mackay appointed as Canada’s envoy to India

Ottawa: Canada has appointed diplomat Cameron Mackay as its new high commissioner to India. That post has been vacant since Nadir Patel left this summer.

An announcement from the office of foreign minister Melanie Joly also included changes to Canada’s consulates in India, with new consul generals taking over in Bengaluru, Chandigarh and Mumbai.

Cameron Mackay joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1995, and has served as director of regional trade policy from 2008-10, director general for China trade policy from 2012-13, director general of the Trade Negotiations Bureau from 2013-15 and director general of the Trade Sectors Bureau from 2015-17.