Senior Canadian Diplomat – Arif Lalani – joins Munk Centre as Visiting Fellow

Newswise – Canadian ambassador Arif Z. Lalani will join the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto as Senior Visiting Fellow starting August 9 2008.

Lalani recently served as Canadian Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. Previously, Lalani was Canadian Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and to the Republic of Iraq. Mr. Lalani joined the Department of External Affairs and International Trade in 1991 and has also held posts in Turkey (with accreditation to Georgia and Azerbaijan), at the United Nations Security Council and in Washington, D.C.

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