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| Ilir Meta shaking hands with Elissa Golberg |
The office of the Canadian Embassy in Italy (the office covering Italy, Albania, and San Marino) is now run by a new name. Elissa Golberg presented her Credentials to the President of the Republic Ilir Meta yesterday. She has replaced Alexandra Bugailiskis, who has held this post since August 2017. Golberg took up her new post in December last year but officially appeared in Albania yesterday.
The news was made public by President Meta, who in his Facebook post stressed that he talked with the new representative of the Canadian state about the importance, especially in the interest of the Albanian community in Canada, of finalizing the Agreement "On Social Security" and agreements Investment Protection and Promotion and "Abolition of Double Taxation”.
Bio:
Elissa Golberg is currently Ambassador of Canada to Italy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Albania and San Marino, High Commissioner-designate to Malta and Permanent Representative of Canada to the UN Agencies in Rome (IFAD, FAO, ËFP). Golberg previously served as Deputy Minister for Strategic Policy in Global Affairs in Canada (2017-2021),
Golberg has held several senior roles in the Canadian government, including Deputy Assistant Secretary - Development Innovation Partnerships (2015-17); Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (Geneva) and to the Conference on Disarmament (2011-15); Director-General of the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (2009-11), and Representative of Canada in Kandahar, Afghanistan (2008-9).
She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the UN Secretary-General on Disarmament Affairs, and of the Central Advisory Group of the UN Emergency Fund.