Jeremy Kinsman
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Jeremy K. B. Kinsman | |
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| Canadian Ambassador to the European Union | |
| In office August 1, 2002 – June 16, 2006 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | James Bartleman |
| Succeeded by | Ross Hornby |
| Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom | |
| In office 2000–2002 | |
| Prime Minister | Jean Chrétien |
| Preceded by | Roy MacLaren |
| Succeeded by | Mel Cappe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 28, 1942 Montreal, Quebec |
Jeremy K. B. Kinsman (born January 28, 1942) is a Canadian former diplomat. He was the Canadian Ambassador to Russia (1992-1996) and various former Soviet Republics (Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan) List of Canadian Ambassadors to the USSR and Russia, Italy (1996-2000)List of Canadian Ambassadors to Italy and Albania and High Commissioner to Malta, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2000-2002) List of Canadian High Commissioners to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to the European Union (2002-2006) Canadian Ambassador to the European Union.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Montreal, Quebec, Kinsman graduated from Princeton University in 1963 and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1965.[citation needed] He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1966. He served abroad in Brussels, Algiers and at the United Nations in New York where he became Minister and Deputy Permanent Representative (1979-1980), and in Washington as Minister (Political) 1981 to 1985. In Ottawa, he was Chairman of Policy Planning, Assistent Deputy Minister (Cultural Affairs and Broadcasting) in the Department of Communications (1985-1989), and Political Director and Assistant Deputy Minister (International Security and Organizations) (1989-1992). He resigned from the Public Service in 2006.
In 2007, he was named Diplomat-in-Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. The School partnered in the democracy support project Kinsman headed under the Community of Democracies that researched, and produced a field guide for democracy support, "A Diplomat's Handbook for Democracy Development Support", now in a Third Edition, published by CIGI (Centre for International Governance Innovation) in 2013. In 2009–2010, Kinsman was appointed Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies as Resident International Scholar. From 2011–2017, he was concurrently Distinguished Diplomatic Visitor at Ryerson University, Toronto. He has been a member of the Foreign Affairs Council of Justin Trudeau.
Kinsman is a regular contributor to print media and TV, notably as lead foreign affairs writer for Policy Magazine. He was co-panelist on the CTV News program "Diplomatic Community" (2017-2023). He is co-host of the Red Passport Podcast (https://opencanada.org/red-passport-podcast/). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian International Council. Kinsman was an independent Director on the Board of Dundee Precious Metals, Inc. (2007-2022).
Kinsman lives in British Columbia.
References
[edit]- Diplomat postings from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
- Diplomatic Appointments[permanent dead link]
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