Peter MacDougall, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Office of the United Nations and to the Conference on Disarmament
Biography
Mr. Peter MacDougall took up the role of Ambassador to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament on August 26, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Prior to his nomination, Ambassador MacDougall was the Assistant Deputy Minister for Global Issues and Development at ¶¶ÒùÊÓƵ. He was also previously Assistant Deputy Minister for Europe and the Middle East.
Ambassador MacDougall joined the public service in 2000. He served in the Privy Council Office (Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet) as the Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy and Director of Operations in the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat from 2011 to 2016. He was previously a senior executive on refugee and migration issues in the department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
From 2016 to 2019, Ambassador MacDougall was the Ambassador of Canada to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Ambassador MacDougall is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, McGill University, the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and the École Nationale d’Administration (Strasbourg).
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