Audri Mukhopadhyay (born 1974) is a

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diplomat and

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. He was the Consul General of Canada in Ho Chi Minh City,

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, serving as head of mission at the Consulate General of Canada in Ho Chi Minh City. He has been featured in a number of Vietnamese publications promoting Canada-Vietnam bilateral ties, and In 2010, he was named one of ''

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'' magazine's "People we love." He also filmed a television series for

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that began airing in Fall 2010. The series is part of an English language teaching programme aiming to promote Canadian culture in Vietnam. Promoting education linkages was a large part of his work in Vietnam. Mukhopadhyay joined the

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in 2005. From 2002 to 2003, he was the Canadian government's representative to ICANN. He has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and as an economist with the Canadian Department of Finance. Mukhopadhyay is a Canadian of

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n descent. He was born in

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(USA), and grew up in

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. He studied economics at Dalhousie University in Canada, then as a Rhodes Scholar at

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, where he earned an MBA and an MPhil in

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. He is affiliated with

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in Washington, D.C., where he is a Global Fellow at th
Canada Institute

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mukhopadhyay, Audri Living people Canadian diplomats Canadian people of Indian descent Canadian people of Bengali descent Canadian Hindus People from Providence, Rhode Island Dalhousie University alumni Canadian Rhodes Scholars Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford 1974 births