Christian Hansen became a Canadian Foreign Service officer in 1995 and has served in Ottawa, Osaka, Oslo, Vancouver, and at Canada’s Mission to the European Union in Brussels. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from the University of British Columbia and Master of Public Policy (International Relations) from Princeton. His academic interests include border management, transportation security, and trade facilitation.
Christian is the Regional Director and Senior Trade Commissioner at the Pacific Regional Office of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. In this role he leads a team of 17 Trade Commissioners in supporting the international business of clients in British Columbia and Yukon. He speaks Japanese, French and some Norwegian.
