H.E. Ms. Lisa Stadelbauer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Israel.

Biography

Lisa Stadelbauer (BA [Administrative and Commercial Studies], University of Western Ontario, 1988) joined External Affairs and International Trade Canada in 1990. Her first assignment abroad was in 1992 to Tel Aviv, and she later served in Hanoi as counsellor and then in Oslo as counsellor and consul. From 2011 to 2015, she served as Ambassador to Zimbabwe and Angola, and High Commissioner in Botswana. In Ottawa, she has served in a number of functions, including Director of the Eastern and Southern Africa Division, Deputy to Canada’s Africa Personal Representative to the G8, Director General of the Pan-Africa Bureau, and in the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat of the Privy Council Office. From 2018 to 2021 Ms. Stadelbauer was Canada’s High Commissioner to Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Ambassador to Somalia and to Burundi, and Canada’s Representative to UN Environment and UN-Habitat. She was appointed Canada’s Ambassador to Israel in 2021.