Raj Thuppal

Executive Vice-President of Shared Services Canada

Raj Thuppal serves as Executive Vice-President of Shared Services Canada (SSC). In this capacity, he is accountable for providing leadership to the organization as it modernizes the Government of Canada (GC) enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure and enables digital services for Canadians.

Raj has considerable experience as an executive leading IT transformation in departments across the GC. Before this appointment, he served as Chief Information Officer in the Department of National Defence. Before that, he was Transport Canada's Chief Service and Digital Officer and Assistant Deputy Minister of Service and Digital Group.

Raj has also held a variety of positions at SSC, including as Chief Technology Officer, responsible for the modernization of IT infrastructure and cyber security, and as Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of Networks, Security and Digital Services, responsible for consolidating and reengineering GC networks and digital services across Canada and internationally. He also served as SSC's Assistant Deputy Minister of Cyber and Information Technology Security.

In November 2025, Raj was appointed as the Deputy Minister Champion for Federal Employees with Disabilities. In this role, Raj is committed to ensuring innovation—including emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence—advances without creating new barriers. His focus on collaborating with employees with disabilities and fostering digital inclusion and accessible design will help embed accessibility from the start, making workplaces more inclusive for all employees.

Raj has been with the public service since 2003. He holds a Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as a Bachelor of Electronics and Communications Engineering from Nagarjuna University in India.