Sandra mccardell biography
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Sandra McCardell is a Canadian diplomat.
Sandra McCardell
Canadian diplomat
Her Excellency Sandra McCardell | |
|---|---|
| In office August 2015 – Ongoing | |
| Preceded by | Gaston Barban |
| Succeeded by | N/A |
Sandra McCardell is a Canadiandiplomat.
After being appointed on July 20, 2009, McCardell was Ambassador to Libya before the 2011 Libyan civil war.[1] She closed the Canadian Embassy and evacuated in February 2011; she subsequently returned to Tripoli in September 2011 to re-establish diplomatic relations after the fall of Gaddafi and completed her assignment in the fall of 2011.[2] In February 2012, it was reported that McCardell's spouse, Edis Zagorac, was hired by engineering firm SNC-Lavalin to work as part of a military-civilian engineering unit with billions in contracts with the Gadhafi regime, including a $270 million prison project.
Following the discovery, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird requested a review into the potential for conflicts of interest, to which nothin