Jeremy Kinsman

Who is Jeremy Kinsman?

Jeremy K.B. Kinsman is a retired Canadian career diplomat. He was the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and the Canadian Ambassador to the European Union.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from Princeton University in 1963 and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1965. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1966. During his career, he was the Canadian ambassador to the Russian Federation, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Italy, Albania, and the European Union. He was also the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Malta. He retired in 2006.

He has been contributing articles to the CBC website and the Toronto Star. He is currently a Diplomat-in-Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University where he is leading a democracy support project for The Community of Democracies which the School is partnering. In this capacity, he is the lead author of the Diplomat's Handbook for Democracy Development Support, a project commissioned by the Community of Democracies and supervised by the Council for a Community of Democracies. He has also recently joined the Board of Dundee Precious Metals.