Canada

Louise Blais began her professional career as an Art Theft Analyst at Interpol.  Blais joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1996.  As a senior diplomat, she has served Counsellor at the Embassy in Washington and Tokyo and as Minister-Counsellor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in Paris.

In August 2014, the Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed her Consul General of Canada in Atlanta, covering states with an aggregate bilateral trade of over $50 Billion: North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.