Rosalee LaPlante, Chargée d’affaires of Canada to Myanmar

Biography

Rosalee LaPlante assumed the role of Chargée d’affaires of Canada to Myanmar in September 2025, following a posting as Political Counsellor in the occupied Palestinian Territories during a pivotal period for Palestinian governance and international efforts to sustain the peace process.

She began her career in the Canadian public service in 2004 with the International Relations Bureau at the Department of Public Safety, before moving to the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs. In 2008, she joined the Afghanistan Task Force at the Canadian International Development Agency, contributing to Canada’s whole-of-government engagement in Afghanistan. Since then, she has held a variety of positions across Canada’s foreign ministry (Global Affairs Canada) in Ottawa and at missions abroad.

Her overseas postings include Afghanistan (2009 to 2010), Bangladesh (2019 to 2021), Iraq (2021 to 2022), the occupied Palestinian Territories (2024 to 2025), and now Myanmar. In Ottawa, she held responsibility at different times for files including Vietnam, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Pakistan, and Afghanistan; she later held leadership roles across strategic planning, departmental performance management, and foreign policy development, and subsequently served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Deputy Minister for the Americas. She brings particular expertise in fragile and conflict-affected states, with a focus on democratic transitions and peace process diplomacy. She has received several departmental awards, including the Peace-Development-Security Nexus Award for her contributions to Canada’s response to the Rohingya crisis.

Rosalee holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Nipissing University, a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in International Development and Globalization from the University of Ottawa, and a Master of Public Administration from the Royal Military College of Canada. She is also a graduate of the National Security Program, Canada’s premier senior leadership course preparing selected military and public service leaders for responsibilities in complex and ambiguous global security environments.