BA [Physical Anthropology], University of Toronto, 1993; MSc [Forensic Anthropology], University of Toronto, 1995, Natalka Cmoc was appointed Canada’s Ambassador to Ukraine in August 2023. Shecompleted field research in Ukraine and Russia, including implementing Canadiantechnical assistance projects in Ukraine in the 1990s. She worked with EKOS ResearchAssociates in public policy before joining the federal government in 2007, first at HealthCanada, and then at the Canadian International Development Agency.
She served as a counsellor for technical cooperation at the Embassy of Canada to Ukraine from 2011 to 2013, working on democracy and human rights programming. She then joined GlobalAffairs Canada’s Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force, where she wasresponsible for establishing the first security programming in Ukraine following Russia’s2014 invasion, which included supporting Operation UNIFIER’s launch.
In 2015, shemoved to the Department of National Defence as director in the Infrastructure andEnvironment Branch and, in 2017, to Indigenous Services Canada as senior director of First Nations housing and infrastructure. In 2020, she became director general in theScience and Parliamentary Infrastructure Branch at Public Services and Procurement Canada, where she was responsible for complex infrastructure policy related to themodernization of the Parliamentary Precinct and to the Laboratories Canada strategy.
