Dr. Stephen Lucas is an accomplished public servant with extensive experience in health, research and innovation, environment and climate change, and energy policy as well as federal-provincial-territorial relations. He retired in May 2024 after more than 35 years with the Public Service of Canada, including 10 years in the Deputy Minister community. Dr. Lucas was appointed as the CEO of Mitacs in October 2024.
He served as Deputy Minister of Health Canada since 2019 and was Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Deputy Secretary of Plans, Consultations and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Privy Council Office. Prior to that, he was Assistant Secretary for Economic and Regional Development Policy at PCO and Assistant Deputy Minister for Science and Policy and for Minerals and Metals at Natural Resources Canada. He started his career as a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada.
Dr. Lucas has a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Geological Engineering from Queen’s University and a Ph.D. from Brown University in structural geology and tectonics.