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<p><font face="Courier"></font><font face="Univers" size="+2"></font><font face="Univers" size="+2">July 20, 1998 No. 176</font></p>
<p align="CENTER"><font face="Univers" size="+2">APPOINTMENTS TO IDRC BOARD OF GOVERNORS </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy today announced the appointments of
Margaret Catley-Carlson and Beryl Gaffney and the reappointments of Herb Breau,
Jacques Gérin and Olav Slaymaker to the Board of Governors of the International
Development Research Centre (IDRC).</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">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, IDRC tries to ensure that the benefits of this research
will be shared equitably among all its partners in the North and the South. IDRC
is directed by a 21-member Board of Governors comprising 11 Canadian members and
10 non-Canadian members. </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier">Biographical notes are attached.</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">For further information, media representatives may contact:</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Debora Brown</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">(613) 995-1851</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Media Relations Office</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">(613) 995-1874</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">This document is also available on the Department's Internet site:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca</font></p>
<p align="CENTER"><font face="Univers" size="+1">Biographical Notes</font><font face="Courier"></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"><strong>Margaret Catley-Carlson</strong> has been President of the Population Council, based in
New York, since 1993. Prior to joining the Council, Ms. Catley-Carlson was Deputy
Minister, Health and Welfare Canada, from 1989 to 1992. During her 25-year career
in government service, she was also President of the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA), from 1983 to 1989, and Deputy Executive Director,
Operations, of UNICEF, from 1981 to 1983. Her career began in the Department of
External Affairs, where she held diplomatic posts in Sri Lanka and London, and
subsequently became Assistant Undersecretary for External Affairs.</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"><strong></strong></font><font face="Courier"><strong>Beryl Gaffney </strong>was the Member of Parliament for Nepean, Ontario, for two terms
(1988-1993 and 1993-1997). She was Councillor, City of Nepean and the Regional
Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton (RMOC) (1978-88), and an administrative employee,
City of Nepean Parks and Recreation Department (1967-78). She has been involved
with various committees concerned with human rights, heritage and the arts:
Member, the International Committee on Human Rights </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">(1989- ); Member, the Foreign Affairs Committee (1997); Chair, the Standing
Committee on Human Rights and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (1993-96);
Member, the Health Committee (1996); Chair, the Standing Committee on Citizenship
and Immigration (1995); Chair, the Standing Committee on Human Rights (national
issues) (1994); and Liberal Party Critic for Human Rights and Associate Critic
for the Status of Women (1989-93). From 1978 to 1988, she was Chair of the Nepean
Parks and Recreation Committee; Founder and Chair of the Nepean Local
Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee; the Museum Board; and the Archives
Committee. From 1983 to 1987, she was also Chair of the RMOC Advisory Committee
on the Arts. </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"><strong>Herb Breau</strong> was a Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1984; he is now a businessman.
He served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Task Forces on North-South Relations
and on Fiscal Federalism in Canada. He was also Chairman of the Parliamentary
Association of Canada-United States from 1977 to 1981 and a member of the
Trilateral Commission from 1981 to 1984. He took the Privy Councillor's oath and
was appointed Fisheries and Oceans Minister on June 30, 1984. Mr. Breau served as
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry and Commerce, the Minister of
Energy, Mines and Resources, and as the Secretary of State for External Affairs.
He returned to private life in 1984. </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"><strong></strong></font><font face="Courier"><strong>Jacques Gérin</strong> is a consultant for Hatch & Associés Inc. in Montreal, and is an
engineer with national and international experience in economic development,
management of natural resources, and the environment. He was President of Hatch &
Associés Inc. from 1990 to 1998; he served as Associate Deputy Minister (North)
of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development from 1985 to 1989;
Deputy Minister of Environment Canada from 1982 to 1985; Senior Assistant Deputy
Minister of Environment Canada from 1977 to 1982; and Secretary to the Cabinet
Committee on Priorities and Planning at the Privy Council Office from 1975 to
1977. Mr. Gérin was also Vice-President of CIDA from 1971 to 1975.</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"><strong></strong></font><font face="Courier"><strong>Olav Slaymaker</strong> is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of
British Columbia (UBC), and is Chairman of the Liu Centre for International
Studies Steering Committee at UBC. Since 1968, he has held a number of positions
at UBC: he was Chairman of the Sustainable Development Research Initiative in
1990 and he served as Acting Director of the UBC Sustainable Development Research
Institute from 1991 to 1992. Dr. Slaymaker was also Visiting Professor at the
Universities of Canterbury (New Zealand), Southern Illinois (United States), and
Oslo (Norway). In 1993, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical
Society and he has served as Senior Vice-President of the International
Association of Geomorphologists. </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Dr. Slaymaker has a PhD in Geography from Cambridge University (1968).</font></p>
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