Caroline Charette, Consul General of Canada to Brazil in São Paulo

Biography

Caroline Charette (LLB [Civil Law], University of Montréal, 1995) joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1998. At Headquarters, she was director of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Secretariat from 2016 to 2017 and executive director of the Regional Network and Intergovernmental Relations Division from 2017 to 2018. Abroad, she served in Tokyo as trade commissioner from 2001 to 2005, in New Delhi as deputy trade program manager from 2006 to 2009 and at Canada’s embassy in Paris as minister-counsellor (economic and commercial affairs) and as senior trade commissioner from 2013 to 2016. Most recently, starting in 2019, Ms. Charette was ambassador of Canada to Hungary, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.