Speaker
Rouslan KATS
Affliation
Embassy of Canada to the ROK
Title
Counsellor(Political/Economic)
Session

Biography

루슬란 카츠 정치∙경제∙공보 참사관은 생물의학을 전공했으며 2009년 캐나다 외교부에 입사했습니다. 앞서 폴란드, 스위스, 우크라이나 주재 캐나다대사관에서도 근무하였습니다. 2021년 9월부터 현재 한국 주한캐나나대사관에서 정치경제공보 참사관으로 근무하고 있으며 이번 직책에서 돈독하고 우호적이며 전략적 동반자인 캐나다-한국 양국관계 강화에 기여하는데 힘쓰고 있습니다.

Rouslan Kats joined Global Affairs Canada in 2009. At Headquarters, he has served as Liaison Coordinator for the 2010 G8 and G20 Summits and then spent two years working on commercial relations with Europe and Eurasia, focusing on bilateral commercial relations with Eastern European and Central Asian states. Overseas, after working at the Embassy of Canada in Warsaw as Trade Commissioner in 2012-2014, he served as Political Officer and acting Political Counsellor at the Embassy of Canada in Kyiv in the post-Maidan Ukraine in 2014-2015. In 2015-2017, he was posted as Commercial Counsellor and Senior Trade Commissioner at the Embassy of Canada in Bern. He then returned to Ukraine where he assumed the functions of Head of the Political and Public Affairs section at the Canadian Embassy from 2017 to 2021. He started in his new role as the Head of Political, Economic and Public Affairs at the Embassy of Canada in Seoul in September 2021. Before joining the Canadian Foreign Service, Mr. Kats worked for three years for the Ministry of Culture and Communications of Quebec. He is a graduate of McGill University, Montreal (B.Sc. Physiology) and has completed research work at Université Laval, Quebec City (M.Sc. Experimental Medicine).