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Canada Ireland Talk - Imbolc 2023
Ambassador of Canada to Ireland Nancy Smyth in conversation with The Honourable Catherine McKenna
By Canada Ireland Foundation
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Starts on Wed, Feb 1, 2023 2:00 PM PST
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Online
About this event
In celebration of Imbolc Canada Ireland Foundation is bringing together Ambassador of Canada to Ireland Nancy Smyth and The Honourable Catherine McKenna for a conversation about women in leadership.
Ambassador Nancy Smyth, is a career Canadian Foreign Affairs professional and public servant, and currently serves as Canada's Ambassador to Ireland. Her appointment was announced in March 2021 and she presented her credentials to Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland at Áras an Uachtaráin in June 2021. Prior to working in government, she spent over a decade with Canada’s International Development Research Centre in several program and policy positions, including working in the South Africa office (1995 to 1997). Most recently, Ms. Smyth served as the Director General for Social Development in Global Affair Canada’s Global Issues and Development Branch (2016 to 2020).
The Honourable Catherine McKenna is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. She is the founder and principal of Climate and Nature Solutions, the Chair of the UN Secretary General’s new High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments of Non-State Entities. McKenna is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia’s Climate School and their Centre on Global Energy Policy and recently launched Women Leading on Climate at COP26.
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Canada Ireland FoundationCanada Ireland Foundation is a registered charitable foundation dedicated to celebrating the story of the Irish in Canada.
Canada Ireland Foudation is an arts, cultural and heritage organization. We believe that through these three lenses, the people of Canada and Ireland can enrich the mutual understanding of their interconnected identitie.
The Foundation’s first project was the creation of the award-winning Ireland Park in Toronto. Canada Ireland Foundation also encourages artistic connectivity, engages in original source academic research, and hosts public events, in order to help build a stronger sense of community between Ireland and Canada.