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Jeff Nankivell is serving as Minister & Deputy Head of Mission at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, since July 2008.

Prior to this, he worked for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for twenty years:

• With the China Program, Asia Branch as a development officer and project team leader at CIDA headquarters (1988-89), and for two years of full-time Mandarin language training in Ottawa and Hong Kong (1989-91);

• At the Canadian Embassy in Beijing for two 4-year postings (1991-95 and 2000-2004), successively as First Secretary, Counsellor and Head of the Development Section;

• With the Russia Program, Central & Eastern Europe Branch, as Country Analyst (1995-98);

• In the Multilateral Programs Branch as Senior Program Manager, World Bank Group (1998-2000);

• In the Policy Branch as Director, Strategic Policy Division (2004-2006);

• And as Director, China and Northeast Asia Program, Asia Branch (2006-2008).

Before joining the Public Service of Canada as a foreign service officer in 1988, he worked at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto and at South – The Third World Newsmagazine, in London, England.

He holds an MSc (with Distinction) in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics (1987), a BA (Honours) in International Relations from the University of Toronto (1986), and a Certificate (one-year program) in Chinese Language and Culture from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1991). He is fluent in English, French, Mandarin and German.