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Dr. Donald Bobiash, BA’80

Dr. Bobiashs career has been distinguished by a commitment to hard work and helping others. From humble beginnings on a family farm near Zelma, SK, he went on to earn a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Masters from the London School of Economics, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. As a career diplomat, he was posted to Pakistan in the early 1990s, where he worked to improve conditions for Afghan refugees and to secure emergency food aid for northern Afghanistan. Currently Deputy Head of Mission in the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, he spent his early career publishing an influential book on developing countries.