Kerry Buck is a Canadian diplomat was the Permanent Representative and Ambassador to NATO. Buck had joined Global Affairs Canada in 1991. [1] from 2015 until 2019. Buck is a Senior Fellow at University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. [2]
Buck earned her undergraduate political science degree from the University of Western Ontario, a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Civil Law [2] in civil and common law from McGill University Faculty of Law. [1]
From 2011 until 2015, she was Political Director and Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and Political Affairs. [1]
After serving at NATO, Buck was the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Assistant Secretary, Economic Sector [2] from 2018 until 2021. [3]
Jeffrey Carl Simpson, OC, is a Canadian journalist. Simpson was The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist for almost three decades. He has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes—the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism and the Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian. In January 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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