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NEWS RELEASES
APPOINTMENTS TO INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
October 3, 2002 (2:10 p.m. EDT) No. 112
APPOINTMENTS TO INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE BOARD OF
GOVERNORS
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham today announced the appointments of Maurice Foster and Mary Coyle and the
reappointment of Margaret Catley-Carlson to the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre
(IDRC). Each has been appointed for a four-year term.
The IDRC is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing-country scientists and
communities find solutions to social, economic and environmental problems through research. By bringing together people,
institutions and ideas, the Centre seeks to ensure that the benefits of this research will be shared equitably among all its
partners in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
The IDRC is directed by a 21-member Board of Governors comprising 11 Canadian members and 10 non-Canadian
members.
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Biographical notes on the appointees are attached.
For further information, media representatives may contact:
Isabelle Savard
Director of Communications
Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
(613) 995-1851
Media Relations Office
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(613) 995-1874
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Margaret Catley-Carlson was President of the Population Council from 1993 to1998, and has held a variety of positions
related to health and international affairs. She was Deputy Minister, Health and Welfare Canada, from 1983 to1992;
President, Canadian International Development Agency, from 1983 to 1989; and Deputy Executive Director (Operations),
UNICEF, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1981 to1983. Her 25-year career in
government began with diplomatic posts in Sri Lanka and London. She held the position of Assistant Under-Secretary,
Department of External Affairs from 1966 to1981. Ms. Catley-Carlson sits on the boards of several public and private
organizations that apply science and knowledge to the better management of freshwater governance, health, agriculture,
information management, environmental protection, international development and development finance. She is Chair,
Global Water Partnership; Commissioner, Water for the 21st Century; Chair, Board of Governors, Centre for Agriculture
and Biosciences International; Board Member, International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas; member of
the international advisory committee, Canadian Institute for Health Information; and member of the Advisory Committee,
Global Asset Management and Inter-American Dialogue.
Maurice Foster has served in the public sector for over three decades in a number of capacities with a particular focus on
positions related to international affairs, resources and agriculture. Dr. Foster was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister
of Energy during the energy crisis of the mid 1970s. He was Vice-chair of the External Affairs and National Defence
Committees, Chair of the Special House of Commons Committee on the Northern Gas Pipeline, and Chair of the Standing
Committee on Privileges and Elections. He held the positions of Chair, Vice-chair and Regional Representative on the
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association from 1977 to 1993. Between 1984 and 1993, he served as: Vice-chair of the
Canada-U.S. International Parliamentary Association; Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board;
Agriculture Critic; Chair of the National Liberal Task Force on Agriculture; and Canadian Wheat Board Critic. In 1994, Dr.
Foster joined a group of 1,500 United Nations observers who monitored the historic South African elections for several
weeks, and in 1993 he co-chaired an international observer delegation that monitored the National and Provincial Assembly
elections in Pakistan. Most recently he served as special adviser to the Prime Minister on parliamentary affairs.
Mary Coyle is Vice-President of St. Francis Xavier University, as well as Director and International Liaison Officer for the
Coady International Institute. She has extensive experience in management, strategic planning, evaluation, economic
development in Aboriginal communities, gender training and enterprise development strategies. In 1996, she was a strategic
planning consultant for the Rural and Small Towns Program, Mount Allison University. Prior to that she worked with
Calmeadow in Toronto, as Program Director from 1986 to 1992, and as Executive Director from 1992 to 1996. Ms. Coyle
has worked on a number of international development projects, including: Northern Ghana Women and Credit Project in
1990; a training course on gender issues for Indonesian planners from 1986 to 1987; a CIDA-commissioned report entitled
Women and Enterprise Development in 1987; the Sulawesi Regional Development Project, Indonesia from, 1984 to 1986; a
study called State-of-the-Art Review of Donor Assistance to Small Enterprise Development in 1984; and development-related conferences and workshops at the University of Guelph in 1983-84. She was also a Rural Industrial Officer in the
Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of Botswana, between 1980 and 1982.
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