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Canada

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 4 November 1946

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Chef de l'Etat: H. E. The Right Honourable David Johnston
Premier ministre: The Right Honourable Stephen HARPER

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. M. André Bachand
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (9/9/2009)

Permanent Delegation of Canada to UNESCO
5, rue de Constantine 75007 Paris
Telephone: 01.44.43.25.71
Fax: 01.44.43.25.79
E-mail: dl.canada@unesco-delegations.org
Web site: http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/unesco

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Dr Axel Meisen
Vice-President: Ms Christina Cameron
Secretary-General: Mr David A. Walden
Special Adviser to the Secretary-General: Ms Katherine Berg

Canadian Commission for UNESCO
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5V8 Canada
Telephone: (+ 1.613) 566 44 14 (ext. 4551); From USA & Canada / A partir des USA et du Canada: (1.800) 263 55 88 ( ext. 4551)
Fax: (+ 1.613) 566 44 05
E-mail: info@unesco.ca; david.walden@unesco.ca (SG)
Web site: http://www.unesco.ca

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Chairperson	Mr Victor Doré	1946-1947	1-4
Member	Mr Victor Doré	1946-1951	1-26
Member	Mr Graham Campbell McInnes	1968-1970	81-83
Member	Mr Napoléon LeBlanc	1970-1974	84-95
Member	Mr Ian Christie Clark	1983-1987	118-127
Chairperson	Ms Marie Bernard-Meunier	1991-1993	138-142
Representative		1997-2001	153-162
Representative		2003-2007	168-177

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference

Executive Committee of the International Campaign for the Establishment of the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo
Rapporteur : Dr François Tremblay

Other intergovernmental organs

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Vice-President : Dr Savithri Narayanan

Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Member (Term expires : 2013)

UNESCO institutes and centres

Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Member : Mr Yvon Fortin (Term expires : 31 December 2013)

Updated:17-10-2007