Deborah Chatsis was the Ambassador of Canada to Vietnam, Director of South Asia Relations, Global Affairs Canada, Ambassador of Canada to Guatemala and High Commissioner to Belize.[1]
Chatsis was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia; she grew up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan as a member of Ahtahkakoop First Nation.[2]
A University of Saskatchewan graduate (Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1983 and a Bachelor of Laws 1986), she continued on to earn a Master of Laws degree from the University of Ottawa in which she specialized in international law. After a break in her educational career, she returned to school, this time from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where she earned a Master in Public Administration. She attended as a Fulbright Scholar from 2006 to 2007. The University of Saskatchewan awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws in 2015.[3]