NEWS RELEASES
LLOYD AXWORTHY REAPPOINTS IDRC PRESIDENT
April 24, 1996 No. 77
LLOYD AXWORTHY REAPPOINTS IDRC PRESIDENT
Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy today announced the reappointment of Dr.
Keith A. Bezanson as President of the International Development Research Centre
(IDRC). Dr. Bezanson became president of IDRC in April 1991.
"I am pleased to reappoint Dr. Bezanson, who has provided strong leadership to
IDRC over the last five years. The Government and people of Canada can be proud
of the superb contribution that IDRC has made to improving the welfare of many
people around the world. In an era of continuing fiscal restraint, IDRC is
uniquely placed to help maximize the use of new technologies to enhance and
support international development," said Mr. Axworthy.
Born in Kingston, Ontario, Dr. Bezanson has devoted his entire career to
international development. A graduate of Carleton University, Ottawa, and of
Stanford University, California, he joined the Canadian International Development
Agency in 1973, where he was successively Director of the East African Program,
Director General in charge of Canada's participation in nultilateral development
banks, and Vice-President of the Americas Branch. In 1985, Dr. Bezanson became
Canada's Ambassador to Peru and Bolivia, and in 1988, Manager of the
Administrative Department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.
IDRC is a Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970. It
assists developing countries in finding their own solutions to development
problems through research. IDRC gives support directly to Third World
institutions whose research focusses primarily on meeting the basic needs of
people in overcoming the problems of poverty.
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