Louis-Martin Aumais, Ambassador of Canada to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Biography

Louis-Martin Aumais (LLB, University of Montréal, 1996; LLM, University of Cambridge, 1999) began his public service career in 1997 as law clerk to Justice Charles D. Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada. He has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1997. He joined the foreign service at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1999. At Headquarters, he has had assignments in the Legal Affairs Bureau and served in the Office of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was director of the Weapons Threat Reduction Program Division (2016 to 2018) and the Southern and Eastern Africa Bilateral Relations Division (2018 to 2020); executive director of the Criminal, Security and Diplomatic Law Division (2020 to 2023); and director general and deputy legal adviser of the Public International Law Bureau (2023 to 2024). His overseas postings have included Beijing (2007 to 2010) and Canberra (2000 to 2003 and 2012 to 2016). Most recently, since 2024, he was legal adviser and director general of the International Law Bureau, as well as agent for Canada at the International Court of Justice.