User:Noah.geduld/sandbox/Chris Cannan

His Excellency
Chris Cannan
His Excellency Chris Cannan
Alma mater	University of South Australia Flinders University Monash University
Occupation	Australian Ambassador to Israel
Predecessor	Dave Sharma

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Chris Cannan is currently the Australian Ambassador to Israel and is a career diplomat with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

Education

Cannan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) from the University of South Australia, a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Asian Studies from Flinders University and a Master of Arts (Foreign Affairs and Trade) from Monash University.

Career

Appointed in June 2017, Cannan in his previous position was responsible for Australia's aid investments in health, education and climate change funds, and also for the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

His other senior roles have included Chief of Protocol and head of Staffing branch (responsible for the recruitment, training, deployment and welfare of Australia's foreign service officers). As head of the Environment Branch, Cannan was DFAT's lead negotiator at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. He has also worked on bilateral issues (South-East Asia and Europe); international security and arms control, public affairs; and financial management.

Overseas, Cannan has served at the Australian Permanent Mission in Vienna, the Australian Embassy in Manila, and was Senior Civilian Monitor with the Australian Defence Force led Bougainville Peace Monitoring Group. From 2010 to 2011 he was head of donor relations at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva.

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