David Graeme Adam (born 1941) is a
Canadian diplomat
A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...
. He was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
Ecuador and
Panama.
Born in
Toronto,
Ontario, Adam graduated from the
University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1968.
[
In 1973, when Adam was a first secretary in Chile, he gained some notoriety when he and his colleague Marc Dolgin offered refuge in their homes to about fourteen Chileans fleeing the 11 September coup d'état. Canada's response to the coup was initially ambivalent, and some credit the actions of Adam and Dolgin for the Canadian government's decision to permit Chilean refugees to settle in Canada.]Missing
Missing or The Missing may refer to:
Film
* ''Missing'' (1918 film), an American silent drama directed by James Young
* ''Missing'' (1982 film), an American historical drama directed by Costa-Gavras
* ''Missing'' (2007 film) (''Vermist''), a Bel ...
'', a dramatization of the story of American journalist Charles Horman
Charles Edmund Lazar Horman (May 15, 1942 – September 19, 1973) was an American journalist and documentary filmmaker. He was executed in Chile in the days following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, which overthr ...
, who disappeared in the aftermath of the coup.
References
1941 births
Ambassadors of Canada to Ecuador
Ambassadors of Canada to Panama
Living people
People from Toronto
University of Toronto Faculty of Law alumni
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