Audri Mukhopadhyay is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 diplomat

Diplomat

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 and economist

Economist

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

Vietnam

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. In 2010, he was named in Progress magazine's list of "People we love."
In addition he has been filming a television series for Ho Chi Minh City Television

Ho Chi Minh City Television

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 that aired in Fall 2010, which is part of an English language teaching programme aiming to promote Canadian culture in Vietnam. Education is a large part of his work in Vietnam.

Mukhopadhyay joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2005. From 2002 to 2003, he was the Canadian government's representative to ICANN

ICANN

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. He has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company

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 and as an economist with the Canadian Department of Finance.

Mukhopadhyay is a Canadian of India

India

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n descent. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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 (USA), and grew up in Halifax (former city), Nova Scotia. He studied economics at Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University

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 in Canada, then as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned an MBA and an M.Phil in economics

Economics

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