Mr. Gorham is a retired career officer of the Department of External Affairs. He spent eleven years in the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo from 1954-60 as a Japanese language student and Second Secretary, and from 1974-79 as Minister of the Embassy. As well, he served in the Department’s Far Eastern Division from 1960-63 and subsequently served in India, Cambodia and, from 1984-87, in China as Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China.
