Mia Yen is a career foreign service officer. She most recently served as Consul General of Canada in Seattle, with accreditation for Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska.  She is Canada’s first female Consul General in Seattle since the mission was opened in 1953.

Mia joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2001. Her headquarters assignments have included serving as Departmental Spokesperson, Adviser to the Deputy Minister of International Trade, Deputy Director to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Director responsible for South Asia Bilateral Commercial Relations and Senior Policy Adviser to Canada’s Chief Trade Commissioner.

In 2009, Mia was seconded to the Privy Council Office, where she served as Director of Operations of the Afghanistan Task Force and then as Chief of Staff to its Deputy Minister. She has also served as Director General responsible for Canada’s Foreign Service Directives.

Overseas, Mia has served as Legislative Analyst in Washington, D.C., and Trade Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur. In 2012, she began serving in Myanmar, where she was tasked with setting up Canada’s new embassy in the country. She was Canada’s first-ever resident Chargée d’affaires in that country prior to becoming Senior Trade Commissioner and Head of Mission Administration. From 2018-2021, she served as Consul General in Chandigarh, India, responsible for the Northwest states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.

Mia was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. She attended Simon Fraser University and the University of Western Ontario, respectively, for her undergraduate and graduate studies.