David Morrison, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

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David Morrison, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

On October 12, 2022, the Prime Minister appointed David Morrison as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Prior to this, David served as Deputy Minister of International Trade and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the G7 Summit. Before that he was Foreign and Defence Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the G7 Summit.

Previously at Global Affairs Canada, David held the positions of Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and Assistant Deputy Minister (Americas) from 2013 to 2017. In 2012-2013, he was Senior Vice-President at the Canadian International Development Agency.

David also served as the Executive Secretary of United Nations Capital Development Fund, from 2008 to 2012, and Spokesperson and Director of Communications at the United Nations Development Programme, from 2004 to 2008. He was also Founding President of NetAid, a partnership between the UN and Cisco Systems to use the Internet to fight global poverty from 2000 to 2004.

David began his career with the UN Development Programme in North Korea in the late 1980s. He served as a political officer at the Canadian Embassy in Havana from 1991 to 1994, and as a Director and Member of the Executive Board at the World Economic Forum in Geneva from 1995 to 1999, where he was responsible for the program of the annual summit in Davos.

David holds a Master’s of Philosophy in international relations from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Arts in history from Yale University.