List of ambassadors of Canada to Burkina Faso

The ambassador of Canada to Burkina Faso is the official representative of the Canadian government to the government of Burkina Faso. The official title for the ambassador is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Burkina Faso. The current Canadian ambassador is Lee-Anne Hermann who was appointed on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on December 20, 2021.<ref name="2021-1053"/>

The Embassy of Canada is located at 318 Professeur Joseph KIZERBO avenue, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso.

History of diplomatic relations

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Diplomatic relations between Canada and Burkina Faso was established on April 27, 1962.Template:Sfn Bruce MacGillivray Williams was appointed as Canada's first Ambassador to Burkina Faso on April 12, 1962.Template:Sfn

List of Canadian ambassadors to Burkina Faso

No.	Name	Term of office			Career	Prime Minister nominated by		Template:Abbr
		Start Date	[[Letter of credence#Presentation of credentials|Template:Tooltip]]	End Date
1	Bruce MacGillivray Williams	April 12, 1962		July 1, 1962	Career	rowspan="2"Template:Canadian party colour|	John G. Diefenbaker (1957-1963)
2	Donald Macalister Cornett	November 29, 1962	July 19, 1963	January 7, 1965	Career
3	Charles Eustace McGaughey	March 30, 1965	August 21, 1965		Career	rowspan="2"Template:Canadian party colour|	Lester B. Pearson (1963-1968)
4	Albert Frederick Hart	August 3, 1966	November 23, 1966	September 13, 1968	Career
5	Douglas Barcham Hicks	October 24, 1968	April 15, 1969	January 6, 1971	Career	rowspan="7"Template:Canadian party colour|	Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1980-1984)
6	Wilfrid Joseph Georges Charpentier	December 17, 1969	April 16, 1970		Career
7	Gilles Mathieu	April 22, 1972	August 1972		Career
8	Michel de Goumois	August 6, 1975			Career
9	Joseph Ernest Gilles Lalande	March 23, 1978	April 27, 1978	June 13, 1980	Non-Career
10	Ernest Hébert	July 10, 1980			Career
11	John Peter Bell	December 22, 1983			Career
12	Jean-Guy Joseph Bernard Saint-Martin	January 14, 1988	January 26, 1988		Career	rowspan="2"Template:Canadian party colour|	Brian Mulroney (1984-1993)
13	J. Denis Bélisle	February 13, 1992	November 4, 1991	June 12, 1994	Career
14	Suzanne Laporte	July 15, 1994	November 15, 1994		Career	rowspan="4"Template:Canadian party colour|	Jean Chrétien (1993-2003)
15	Louise Ouimet	August 18, 1995	September 21, 1995		Career
16	Jules Savaria	September 22, 1997			Career
17	Denis Briand	July 16, 2001			Career
18	Louis-Robert Daigle	August 19, 2005			Career	Template:Canadian party colour|	Paul Martin (2003-2006)
19	Jules Savaria	July 4, 2008			Career	rowspan="3"Template:Canadian party colour|	Stephen Harper (2006-2015)
20	Ivan Roberts	August 8, 2011	October 21, 2011	August 2015	Career	citation		CitationClass=web }}</ref>
21	Vincent Le Pape	June 2, 2015	October 20, 2015	August 9, 2017	Career	<ref>Vincent Le Pape</ref>
22	Edmond Dejon Wega	October 25, 2017	December 6, 2017		Career	rowspan="3"Template:Canadian party colour|	Justin Trudeau (2015-Present)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
23	Carol McQueen	August 26, 2019	September 9, 2019		Career
24	Lee-Anne Hermann	December 20, 2021	January 11, 2022		Career	citation		CitationClass=web }}</ref>

References

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