Lisa Stadelbauer is a Canadian diplomat who most recently served as Canadian ambassador to Israel until 2025. Her past duties in Canada's Foreign Service include the posts of the High Commissioner to Kenya and Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the

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(UNEP) and to the United Nations Habitat Programme. As High Commissioner to Kenya, she was ex officio the non-resident High Commissioner to Rwanda and Uganda and Ambassador to Somalia and Burundi. A 1988 graduate of the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

with a BA in Administrative and Commercial Studies, Stadelbauer joined External Affairs and International Trade Canada in 1990. From 2011 to 2015, she served as ambassador to

Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Bots ...

and

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

and high commissioner in

Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

. Stadelbauer was appointed Canada's High Commissioner to Kenya in October 2018 and presented her credentials to President

Uhuru Kenyatta Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta ( born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician who served as the fourth president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. The son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president, he previously served as Prime Minister of Kenya, Deputy Pri ...

on Wednesday, December 5, 2018.

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