Jasmine Wahhab 

As Consul & Senior Trade Commissioner with the Consulate General of Canada in Ho Chi Minh City, Jasmine leads a team of trade commissioners dedicated to fostering Canadian commercial and economic success on the Vietnamese market. 

Jasmine joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2013 as a recruit of the Government of Canada's Recruitment of Policy Leaders Program. She arrived in Vietnam in September 2022, after completing a three-year assignment as Commercial Counsellor managing Canada’s trade program in Egypt and Lebanon (2019-22). While in Cairo, Jasmine acted as Chargée d’Affaires a.i. of Canada to Egypt on numerous occasions, as well as led the Embassy’s COVID-19 repatriation efforts.  

At headquarters, Jasmine held the position of Deputy Director (Natural Resources) within the Trade Sectors Bureau (2017-19); Canadian Representative to the UN General Assembly Legal Affairs Committee in New York (2016); Senior Member of Canada’s Softwood Lumber trade remedies litigation team (2015-16); Lead Counsel for Canada in bilateral investment treaty negotiations and Attorney (second-chair) in NAFTA Chapter 11 international investment arbitration proceedings (2013-15). 

Jasmine holds degrees from McGill University (B.C.L., LL.B.), the University of Cambridge (LL.M.), and Stanford Law School (J.S.M.), and has been a Member of the Québec Bar since 2007. She began her legal career with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, was a Graduate Fellow of the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation and clerked for the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the Supreme Court of Canada.