TORONTO–Ambassador Robert Noble, a recently retired diplomat for the Canadian government joined the AfriMed Network Advisory Board in November this year.  Ambassador Noble brings to AfriMed Network a broad knowledge of the African Continent.  Ambassador Noble served as Canadian Ambassador to Gabon from 1997 to 2000.  Additionally, he was posted to the African nation of Senegal as well as the Canadian embassies in Mexico City and Madrid, Spain.  He later served as Canada’s Deputy Consul in Boston and New York City and then as Consul General in Detroit from 2006 to 2010.

Over the years Mr. Noble worked closely with Canadian companies and their business associations to implement their international objectives.  From 1983 to 1987, he was seconded to the Canadian Exporters’ Association where he delivered a Canadian International Development Agency-sponsored program partnering Canadian entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized business on the African continent in the nations of Cameroon, South Africa and Zimbabwe.  In this regard he developed linkages for these partnerships with national and regional funding institutions.