Bhupinder
Singh Liddar

Kenya-born Bhupinder Singh Liddar is a retired Canadian diplomat, who worked on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, as research assistant to Members of Parliament from 1977 until 1988 when he launched "Diplomat and International Canada" magazine, a publication for Canada's international community.

During his almost 40 years in Ottawa, he also at one-time wrote a weekly column on diplomats in Ottawa's largest English newspaper "The Ottawa Citizen" and hosted a weekly TV show called "Diplomatic World", on CPAC parliamentary channel.

Bhupinder was appointed first Consul General of Canada to Chandigarh, in 2004, but did not take up the appointment.

However, he later served as Canada's Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program, based at Canadian High Commission, in Nairobi, Kenya, for three years, 2006 to 2009.

His father, Dr. Jodh Singh Liddar, a medical doctor migrated from Punjab's Pohir Village, to Kenya with the British Army, in 1937. His mother, Harbans Kaur, hailed from the neighbouring Village of Jhamat.

Having visited some 60 countries, he now travels the world, in retirement. 🍁