Rosemary McCarney (BA, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 1974; LLB, University of Western Ontario, 1977; MBA, Case Western Reserve University, 1982) is an award-winning humanitarian, a business leader, an author, a recognized public speaker and an expert on international economic development. Ms. McCarney’s extensive career in law, business and the not-for-profit sector has taken her to more than 100 countries. She worked with the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, USAID and the Canadian International Development Agency, as well as with foreign governments and UN bodies. She was on the board of directors of many private-sector or not-for-profit organizations, including the Canadian Institute for Work and Health and Inmet Mining Corporation’s Stakeholders Advisory Board. Ms. McCarney taught international and constitutional law at Case Western Reserve University, from 1979 to 1982, and International Business Transactions Law at the University of Toronto, from 1984 to 1988.
In 2005, she became the president and chief executive officer of Plan International Canada Inc., one of the oldest and largest charities in Canada, and was most recently the chair of both the Humanitarian Coalition and the Canadian Network on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. She recently served on the advisory boards of the Canada-United States Law Institute and the Public Policy Committee of Imagine Canada. Ms. McCarney has appeared regularly on national and international radio and television programs. She has also written a series of children’s books on social and rights issues affecting children around the world, including in Canada; the first book, Every Day is Malala Day (published by Second Story Press, March 2014), is available in 12 languages in 20 countries. Ms. McCarney and her husband, Barry Fisher, have three children, D’Arcy, Courtney and Dylan. Ms. McCarney replaces Elissa Goldberg.
Pierre Giroux (BA [Economics], Université de Montréal, 1974) has worked in the federal public service for 34 years, during which time he has held a wide range of positions relating to international affairs. Overseas, Mr. Giroux has served as ambassador to El Salvador, chargé d’affaires en pied to the Dominican Republic, deputy head of mission to the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., Canadian representative on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s development assistance committee in Paris, adviser in the Canadian embassies to Venezuela and to Algeria, cooperation section chief in the Canadian embassies to Tunisia and to Guatemala, and technical expert in planning for the governments of Mali and Haiti. At Headquarters, he has held the positions of director, West and Central Africa, and Canadian representative for the peace process in the African Great Lakes region, deputy director for climate change and energy policy, deputy director for recruitment and management of the development assistance file and senior planning officer for the Canadian International Development Agency’s Haiti Program. Mr. Giroux and his wife, Blanca Ureta, have one son. Mr. Giroux replaces Nicole Giles.
Vincent Le Pape (BBA [trade and administration], École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Brest, 1983; DESCAF [economics] Université de Rennes, 1984; MBA, Université de Sherbrooke, 1992). Mr. Le Pape has held several executive and management positions within the federal public service since joining in 1999. More recently, from 2008 to 2012, he was director of bilateral programs for the Middle East and North Africa region at the Canadian International Development Agency. In August 2012, Mr. Le Pape became the development counsellor at the Embassy of Canada to Haiti. Before joining the federal public service, Mr. Le Pape held private-sector managerial and supervisory positions in Canada and France in the fields of information technology and management consulting and in the steel and banking industries. Mr. Le Pape replaces Ivan Roberts.
