Earl Drake

Earl Drake is a former Canadian ambassador to China and Indonesia, president of the Canada China Business Council, and project director of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. He is currently a director of Silvercorp Metals Inc., China’s leading silver producer, and an honorary professor at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research.

Earlier in his government career, he served as senior Canadian representative to the OECD in Paris and to the World Bank in Washington, as assistant deputy minister at the Department of External Affairs, as vice president of CIDA in Ottawa, and as a diplomat in Karachi and Kuala Lumpur.

He is the author of A Stubble-Jumper in Striped Pants: Memoirs of a Prairie Diplomat (1999).

His wife, Monica, is a communications professional with an international background.

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