Careers in DFAIT [Foreign Affairs & International Trade Canada]
Looking for answers with regard to testing and interviews with DFAIT? Want to know what career opportunities are available to you within DFAIT? What are the recruitment procedures? Come hear from the expert Martial Pagé and learn all about the ins and outs.
Guest Speaker
Martial Pagé (BA
[Economics], McGill University, 1981) has served abroad as attaché
(customs) at the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo and as counsellor
(justice and home affairs) at the Canadian Mission to the European
Union in Brussels. In Ottawa, he has held various positions at
Revenue Canada, notably senior officer in the Assessment Program
Division, manager for the Americas, Africa and Middle-East in the
International Relations Coordination Office, and acting director in
the Management and Services Division. At Foreign Affairs and
International Trade Canada, he has occupied the positions of
fisheries relations officer and, upon his return from Brussels in
2000, of deputy director responsible for the Baltic States, the
European Free Trade Association countries and the Council of
Europe. He then became deputy director responsible for the Baltic
States, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta before taking the position of
counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Ankara in 2003. On his return
to Ottawa, he assumed the position of director of the Assignments
and Pool Management Division. He is married to Akiko Onozuka and
they have three sons. Martial Pagé succeeds Louis de Lorimier.
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