Peter MacDougall

Assistant Deputy Minister for Global Issues and Development at Global Affairs Canada

Peter MacDougall
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Peter MacDougall, Global Affairs Canada

Peter MacDougall is currently Assistant Deputy Minister for Global Issues and Development at Global Affairs Canada. In this role, he leads on Canada’s development assistance efforts through multilateral and global partners, humanitarian assistance and priority thematic policy issues such as the empowerment of women and girls, health, education and innovative and climate finance. Peter also serves as the focal point for mediation at Global Affairs, and chairs the Mediation Advisory Board, which provides advice and guidance to enhance Canada’s role in providing good offices, facilitation and mediation. He also serves as Canada’s G7 foreign affairs sous-sherpa.

Peter served as the Assistant Deputy Minister for Europe, Arctic, Middle East, and Maghreb from 2019-2020, and as Ambassador of Canada to Jordan from 2016-2019. Prior to his arrival at Global Affairs Canada, he held positions in the Privy Council Office (PCO) as the Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy (2015 to 2016), and Director of Operations in the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat (2011 to 2014). Prior to PCO, from 2006 to 2011, Peter held positions at Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), including Director General, Admissibility Policy, and Director General, Refugee Affairs.  

Peter holds a BA [Political Science], University of British Columbia, 1988; BSW, University of Victoria, 1992; MSW, McGill University, 1998; MA [International Relations], Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2014; Diploma, École nationale d’administration, Strasbourg, 2014.

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