Jeffrey Marder, appointed new Canadian ambassador to Spain

The Diplomat Diplomat Jeffrey Marder has been named Canada's new ambassador to Spain, replacing Wendy Drukier, who returns to her country. Wendy Drukier leaves her position in Madrid, where she has carried out intense work in the more than three and a half years that she has remained at the head of the diplomatic representation. Among other tasks, he was responsible for preparing the meeting in Moncloa between the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, at the end of the NATO Summit held in Madrid, and in which a declaration was signed. joint between Spain and Canada. The new ambassador, who until now was executive director of Human Rights and Indigenous Affairs in the Political Division of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has extensive experience as a diplomat, which includes having been Canada's ambassador to Portugal between 2014 and 2018. Throughout his career, which began in 1997, Jeffrey Marder has also been director of the Division of Relations with Central America and the Caribbean. Likewise, he has been stationed at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York and at the Embassies in Chile and Mexico

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