The Canadian Government on Friday announced that Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Lilian Chatterjee will be replaced by Mark Berman.
In a statement, François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that “Mark Berman becomes High Commissioner in the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and Representative to the Caribbean Community. Mr. Berman replaces Lilian Chatterjee.”
Chatterjee tweet Friday, “Canada is pleased to announce Mark Berman as Next Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana.”
According to the Canadian Government’s Global Affairs division, Berman joined the Government in 1989 as an adviser to the Minister of Environment and then served as executive assistant to the Deputy Minister of the Environment.
In 1993, he joined the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi as a legal officer. After 6 years in Nairobi and Geneva, he returned to Canada as a director in the Office of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development.
He then joined the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in 2000 as deputy director for Human Security and Peacebuilding. In 2005, he returned to Environment Canada as director for Climate Change Negotiations.
In 2008, he was seconded to CIDA’s Multilateral Branch as acting director general for Environmental Sustainability and Economic Growth. In 2009, Mr. Berman joined Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada as executive director for Climate and Energy and Canada’s representative on the Kyoto Protocol’s Compliance Committee.
In 2012, he served as executive director for International Crime and Terrorism and was then appointed director general for Consular Policy in 2017.
Berman is the holder of a BA [Political Science and International Relations], University of Saskatchewan, 1982; LLB, University of Saskatchewan, 1986; LLM, London School of Economics, 1989).
Last month, the Canadian Government announced that Chatterjee, who was appointed High Commissioner to Guyana and Suriname in September 2017, has been appointed as the new High Commissioner for Barbados.
In a tweet, Chatterjee had said “Sorry to leave Guyana and Suriname but glad to remain in the @CARICOMorg family with my new appointment as High Commissioner to Barbados. A privilege to represent Canada.”
Diplomatic relations between the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Canada were established on May 26th, 1966 and since then both countries have collaborated at bilateral, regional and international levels.
