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Detroit-Colin Bird, Consul General of Canada and Roberto Nicolas Vazquez, Consul General of Mexico

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COLIN T. BIRD

Colin T. Bird (ALB Hons [Government Studies], Harvard University, 1994; LLB Hons, University of Ottawa, 2003) joined Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada in 2009. He has served as counsel to the NAFTA Secretariat and in the department’s Trade Law Bureau, where he focused on trade remedies and aerospace and softwood lumber trade issues, and he was a director in the North America Bureau of the Trade Negotiations Branch. Until 2019, Mr. Bird served as minister-counsellor for trade and economic policy at the embassy in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for all aspects of the United States-Canada trade relationship, including the 2 countries’ cooperation in multilateral forums. He has also represented Canada before dispute settlement panels and the Appellate Body at the World Trade Organization.

Most recently, he was the executive director in the Trade Policy Branch responsible for multilateral trade matters, particularly Canada’s membership in the World Trade Organization, and served as Canada’s senior trade official at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, where he chaired the Trade Committee, and at the G7 and G20.

ROBERTO NICOLAS VAZQUEZ

Originally from Acapulco, Guerrero, Roberto Nicolás Vázquez was raised in Cuernavaca, Morelos from the age of five until he finished high school. He has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and diplomas in: Migration Policy, Mexican Communities and International Law. He has been part of the Mexican Foreign Service since 2007.

PAST POSITIONS

Consul of Mexico in Detroit, April 2022 - present

Coordinator of Political Affairs, North American Desk, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2020-2022

Director for US Political Affairs – North American Desk, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2017-2020.

Deputy Consul of Mexico in Orlando, 2012-2017.

Consul for Protective Services, Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas, 2008-2012.

Consul in Charge of Community Affairs, Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas, 2007-2008.

Deputy Representative of the Mexican Immigration Bureau, Mexico City International Airport, 2005-2007.