The Honourable Pierre Stewart Pettigrew

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Papineau (Quebec)

Pierre Pettigrew was elected to the House of Commons in a March 1996 by-election and first joined the Cabinet in January 1996 as Minister for International Co-operation and Minister responsible for La Francophonie.  In 2003, he was named Minister of Health, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister responsible for Official Languages. From 1996 to 1999, he served as Minister of Human Resources Development.  Appointed Minister for International Trade in 1999, he has since chaired the Ministerial Meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Toronto in November 1999, chaired the Working Group on Implementation at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Seattle in December 1999, and chaired the Working Group on Singapore Issues at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar in November 2001.

A former business consultant, Pierre Pettigrew was
vice-president of Samson Bélair Deloitte & Touche International (Montreal) from 1985 to 1995 where he acted as a business consultant to companies with dealings in international markets.

He served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada from 1981 to 1984, as executive assistant to the Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 1978 to 1981, and as director of the Political Committee, NATO Assembly, in Brussels, from 1976 to 1978.

Mr. Pettigrew holds a bachelor of arts in philosophy from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and a masters of philosophy in International Relations from Balliol College, Oxford University, England.

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