Robert Fowler (diplomat)
Robert R. Fowler (born 18 August 1944) is a Canadian diplomat and the special envoy of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Niger since mid-2008, to find solution to the conflict in Agadez region.
On 14 December 2008 he was reported missing and was last seen about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northwest of the capital Niamey. Fowler, along with several Westerners, was eventually freed on 21 April 2009.
Fowler has had a long history of public service in Canada, some of it contentious. As a Deputy Minister of National Defence (the senior civil servant), his tenure was marked by allegations of corruption, for which he earned the nickname "Teflon Bob".
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