Sabine Sparwasser retired in 2024 as Germany’s Ambassador to Canada. She has since become Dean of the Mercator Leadership College and continues to work occasionally for the German Foreign Office as special envoy. In the forty years of her career in the German Foreign Service, Sabine Sparwasser served in Brussels EU, London, Costa Rica, Ottawa and Toronto. She was Deputy spokesperson of the Foreign Office, Head of the Middle East Division; she led recruitment and training in the Foreign Service Academy and was Political Director for the Southern Hemisphere.