Anderson Blanc, High Commissioner of Canada in Mozambique and Eswatini (designate), and Ambassador to Angola

Biography

Anderson Blanc (BA Hons [Business Administration], University of Quebec in Montréal, 2002; MA [Business Administration], Laval University, 2015) was a delinquency counsellor at the Centre Jeunesse de Montréal—Institut Universitaire [Montréal youth centre—university institute] for many years before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2003. At Headquarters, he served as deputy director (policy and trade) and senior adviser in the Haiti and Dominican Republic Division from 2014 to 2017. Abroad, he served in Thailand from 2006 to 2009. He was counsellor at the High Commission in Ghana from 2017 to 2019 and counsellor (commercial) for Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal from 2019 to 2020. From 2022 to 2025, he was ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia.