Audri Mukhopadhyay

Who is Audri Mukhopadhyay?

Audri Mukhopadhyay is a Canadian diplomat and economist. He is the Consul General of Canada in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, serving as head of mission at the Consulate General of Canada in Ho Chi Minh City. 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 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. He has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and as an economist with the Canadian Department of Finance.

Mukhopadhyay is a Canadian of Indian descent. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He studied economics at Dalhousie University in Canada, then as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned an MBA and an M.Phil in economics.