Stephen Doust, Ambassador of Canada to Mongolia

Biography

Stephen Doust (BA [East Asian Area Studies], University of British Columbia, 1991; LLB, University of Toronto, 1996) practiced law in Vancouver, British Columbia, before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1999. At Headquarters, he has worked in the Legal Division, where his duties included heading the Canadian delegation to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Working Group on Bribery. He has also worked as deputy director in the Central America and Caribbean Division, including time as acting director, as deputy director in the Intergovernmental Affairs Division and as deputy director in the Hemispheric Policy Division. He served in Tokyo; in Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago); in Washington, D.C., at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the Organization of American States; and in Guangzhou. He served in Tokyo, again, from 2020 to 2025. In 2025, he was appointed as Ambassador of Canada to Mongolia.