Alan Bowman is Deputy Head of Mission of the Mission of Canada to the European Union. He also concurrently serves as the Permanent Observer of Canada to the Council of Europe. He joined the Government of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now the Department of Global Affairs) in 1996.   His headquarters assignments included: director of the foreign policy research division; director of the regional strategy division; director of the Asia-Pacific policy division; and deputy director of the international economic relations and summits division.    In Ottawa, he also had an assignment in the Privy Council Office’s foreign policy and defense secretariat.   In addition, he served a two-year term as Chairman of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Committee on Trade and Investment in 2004 and 2005.  Postings abroad also included the Embassy of Canada to Thailand and the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York City. He holds degrees in economics from McGill University, l’Université de Montréal and l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).