A Conversation with Her Excellency Marie-Anne Coninsx
For the last “Conversation about the Future of Europe”, we are pleased to host Her Excellency Marie-Anne Coninsx, Ambassador of the European Union to Canada. Her Excellency will have a talk with Thierry Warin to present her vision of the future of Europe. The conversation will take place in French
Marie-Anne Coninsx
Marie-Anne Coninsx is the Ambassador of the European Union to Canada. She began her posting as the European Union’s top diplomat in Canada in September 2013, after serving four years as Ambassador of the European Union to Mexico. She has been an official of the European Union since 1984.
She started her career in the European Commission at the Legal Service in 1984. From 1985 to 1996, she was a Cabinet Staff Member of several Commissioners.
Ambassador Coninsx has extensive experience dealing with multilateral issues, having served as Minister-Counsellor at the Delegation of the European Union in New York (US) from 1996 to 2000 and as Minister-Counsellor at the Delegation of the European Union in Geneva (CH) from 2000 to 2004.
Prior to heading the European Union Delegation to Mexico, Ambassador Coninsx was Head of Unit at the External Relations Department of the European Commission, overseeing relations between the European Union and Latin America from 2004 to 2009.
Ambassador Coninsx studied law at Gent University in Belgium and did post-graduate studies specialising in international law and European law respectively at Cambridge University (UK) and at European University Centre in Nancy (France).
May 29th, 2014, 5pm
At CIRANO,
1130 Sherbrooke West,
14th floor,
Montreal
By invitation only
In French