Biography Paul J. Gauvin Deputy Commissioner Corporate Management and Comptrollership

In November 1999, Paul J. Gauvin was appointed as Deputy Commissioner, Corporate Management and Comptrollership at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa. A native
of Moncton, New Brunswick, Mr. Gauvin began his career as an accountant with Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Since that time, Mr. Gauvin has dedicated over 30 years to public service, in increasingly senior financial and program management positions, in some of the largest, most complex federal government departments, including Transport Canada and Employment and Immigration Canada where he served as Senior Financial Officer and Assistant Deputy Minister, Finance and Administration.

• Among his career acomplishments are his leadership of the successful development and implementation of the Government's first major integrated finance and materiel management system and his role as Chief Negotiator for the Government's commercialization of the Air Navigation Service, a $1.5 billion sale to the private sector and the single largest Government commercialization activity.
  
• The sale was a cornerstone of the Government's deficit
  reduction, streamlining and divestiture agenda and
  continues to serve as a model for other privatization initiatives.
  
• Mr. Gauvin is a former Past President of the Financial
  Management Institute and a champion of the excellence
  and professionalism of the finance community. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the National Transportation Week Award of Achievement
  and the Public Service Award of Excellence, and a frequent speaker on the challenges of government and departmental financial administration; major financial systems' implementation and; commercialization and divestiture of government entities.
  
• Mr. Gauvin is married, and has a wife Anne and two adult
  children, Monique and Mark.