Mrs. Kelly Ann Anderson
Counsellor (Political) at the Embassy of Canada to Austria

Mrs. Kelly Anderson (BScS University of Ottawa, MA Norman Patterson School of International Affairs) currently serves as Counsellor and Head of the Foreign Policy and Diplomacy section of the Canadian Embassy to Austria.

Mrs. Anderson joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1997.
At Headquarters, she has worked in a variety of assignments including Deputy Director for NATO, OSCE and European Defence Cooperation; Deputy Director for Conventional, Chemical and Biological Weapons; and, most recently as Deputy Director for Space Policy and Regulation.

She has served overseas at the Canadian Embassies in Belgrade, Serbia and Washington, DC and was Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2011-2014.

Mrs. Anderson is married with two children.