Colin Bird

Colin Bird is the Minister-Counsellor for Trade and Economic Policy at the Canadian Embassy in Washington.  Prior to his current posting, Mr. Bird was a divisional director in the Trade Negotiations Branch of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development in Ottawa (North America Bureau).  He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and has practiced primarily in the area of international trade.  Within government, he has served as counsel to the NAFTA Secretariat and in Canada’s Trade Law Bureau, where he focused on trade remedies, aerospace and softwood lumber trade issues.  He has represented Canada before dispute settlement panels and the Appellate Body at the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

Mr. Bird received his law degree from the University of Ottawa and his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.