New Permanent Representative of Canada Presents Credentials

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)

The new Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Marc-André Blanchard, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

Since 2010 until his appointment, Mr. Blanchard was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of McCarthy Tétrault, one of Canada’s largest law firms, advising companies on strategic and public policy issues.  In 2014, he served on the boards of the Conference Board of Canada, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer.

Mr. Blanchard holds master’s degrees in public administration and international relations from Columbia University in New York City and in public international law from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.  He also holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Montréal in Canada.

Born on 10 November 1965, he is married and has two children.