Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers


The Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers is a professional association of the Canadian Foreign Service and represents approximately 1600 Foreign Service officers working for the Global Affairs Canada, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and Canada Border Services Agency.
The aims of the Association are to further the interests of its members, to protect the status and standards of their profession and to maintain and promote the effective functioning of the foreign service of Canada; to act as the bargaining agent on behalf of its ordinary members; and to formulate and express the corporate view of the members on matters affecting them.
PAFSO was certified in 1967 and is headquartered in Ottawa.

Publications

PAFSO publishes bout de papier quarterly, Canada's Magazine of Diplomacy and Foreign Service.

Past Presidents