Tarik Ali Khan, Ambassador of Canada to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Biography

Tarik Ali Khan (BA [English], University of Toronto, 1991; MSc [International Rural Development Planning], University of Guelph, 1998) joined Canadian Heritage in 1999 and the Canadian International Development Agency (now part of Global Affairs Canada) in 2005. At Headquarters, his positions have included director, democratic institutions and conflict, director of the Haiti Development Program, director general for Pan-African affairs, director general for West and Central Africa, director general for Central America and the Caribbean, and executive director to the deputy minister of international development. He has held diplomatic postings abroad as counsellor, director of cooperation, in China (2008 to 2010) and in Colombia (2012 to 2016).