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 & Development. He is currently a Director of Silvercorp Metals Inc., China’s leading silver producer.

Earlier in his government career, he served as senior Canadian representative to the OECD in Paris and the World Bank in Washington, as Assistant Deputy Minister at the Department of External Affairs and Vice President of CIDA in Ottawa, and as a diplomat in Karachi and Kuala Lumpur. He also authored two books.

His wife is a communications professional with an international background, his son is a diplomat currently at the Privy Council Office in Ottawa and his daughter is a lawyer and mother in New Orleans.