Kristen Chenier is the Director of Global Health Policy and Strategy at Global Affairs Canada (GAC). This role includes overseeing the development and advancement of GAC’s global health objectives across a number of multilateral and global health fora. Ms Chenier joined the Government of Canada via the Canadian International Development Agency in 1999 and has worked in various roles in multilateral affairs and international cooperation, including as Head of Cooperation in Jordan (2009–2012), Chief of Operations in Mozambique (2013–2015), and Health Counsellor at Canada’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva (2016–2021). Ms Chenier also spent over a decade on humanitarian policy issues and response, managing Canada’s responses to a wide variety of protracted crises and disasters, and working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bangladesh. She has degrees in Political Science and International Development from the University of McGill and Ottawa.