Henri Proulx, Consul and Senior Trade Commissioner

Biography

Henri Proulx took up the position of Consul and Senior Trade Commissioner at the Consulate of Canada in Düsseldorf in November 2021. He had previously been posted to Düsseldorf, from 2009 to 2012, as Vice-Consul and Trade Commissioner. He was Senior Trade Commissioner in Prague from 2014 to 2017 and subsequently headed a research unit in the Services Trade Policy Division at Headquarters until his return to Düsseldorf. Having joined the foreign service in 2002, he has also held positions in media relations, geographic trade divisions (Africa, Europe and Eurasia) and in foreign policy research.

He has a BA (McGill University) and MSc (Université de Montréal) in Political Science and a BFA (Concordia University) in Film Production, and completed doctoral studies at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.