Jonathan Moor - Biography
Assistant Deputy Minister (Finance) / Chief Financial Officer
Jonathan Moor joined DND as the Assistant Deputy Minister (Finance) and Chief Financial Officer in June 2024, where he is responsible for an annual budget in excess of $45B, and a multi-year investment programme of over $200B.
From January 2018, he was the CBSA Vice-President, Finance and Corporate Management Branch and Chief Financial Officer. The Branch covered nine directorates, with 1,000 staff based across Canada, and an annual budget of over $3B. He was responsible for a number of different professional areas (Finance, Real Property, Procurement & Material Management, Security, Project Management, Business Planning, Risk Management, and Recourse) and two large infrastructure projects, with a total budget of $670M.
Prior to joining the CBSA, and coming to Canada on an exchange program with the Government of the United Kingdom (UK), he had a number of senior roles in the UK's Department for Transport. He was appointed to their main Board in 2013, responsible for the Department's strategy, together with an annual budget in excess of $42B, and he led all of the internal service functions.
In 2009, Jonathan was the UK's Director General for Civil Aviation responsible for:
- aviation security and facilitation
- air service negotiations and air traffic control (NATS)
- consumer, environmental and regulatory policies (CAA)
He was also Vice-President of Eurocontrol, Vice-President of the European Civil Aviation Conference, and Chairman of the International Civil Aviation Organization's Evaluation and Audit Advisory Committee.
Jonathan trained as a Chartered Accountant in the private sector with Touche Ross & Co (now Deloitte), before moving to District Audit in 1992 and then the Audit Commission, to work in a number of financial and corporate roles. In 2000, he was appointed as their Finance Director.
In 2003, he joined the UK's Department for Transport as Group Finance Director of the Driver, Vehicle and Operator Group, before moving into a policy and program management role as Director of Airports Strategy in 2006 (responsible for the third runway programme at Heathrow).
In the 2011 New Year's Honours List, Jonathan was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to aviation.
