Allison Stewart, Ambassador of Canada to the State of Libya, resident in Tunis, Tunisia

Biography

Allison Stewart (BSS Hons [Sociology, Linguistics], University of Ottawa, 1993; JD, University of Toronto, 2002) practised corporate law in Toronto and in Tokyo, served as a Japanese interpreter in Canada, taught high school in Japan and was a program counsellor in a social services agency in the Greater Toronto Area before joining Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada in 2005. At Headquarters, she served in various positions in the Legal Branch, including deputy director for oceans law, as deputy director for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, and in export financing policy. Her overseas assignments included Athens (from 2010 to 2014) as the head of the Political, Economic and Public Affairs Section and Islamabad (from 2014 to 2016) as senior trade commissioner. She was posted to Phnom Penh (from 2017 to 2020) as head of the office and chargé d’affaires ad interim. In 2022, she was appointed as head of mission in Myanmar, before assuming her current position in 2025. She is married to artist and writer Chris Stewart.