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Prime Minister Announces Appointment of a New Deputy Minister of Finance


July 3, 1997
Ottawa, Ontario

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien today announced the appointment of Scott Clark as Deputy Minister of Finance. Since November 1994, Mr. Clark has held the position of Associate Deputy Minister of Finance. His career with the Department of Finance spans some twenty years during which time he has held such positions as Senior Assistant Deputy Minister and G-7 Deputy for Canada, Assistant Deputy Minister, Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis and Assistant Deputy Minister, Economic Programs and Government Finance. From October 1989 to November 1992, Mr. Clark served as Canada's Executive Director to the International Monetary Fund in Washington.

Mr. Clark succeeds David Dodge who has been appointed Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance and will be pursuing a sabbatical at the University of British Columbia as Visiting Scholar until next spring. It is intended that Mr. Dodge would assume new responsibilities in the Public Service at that time.

Mr. Clark's appointment is effective July 14, 1997.

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(Biographical notes attached)

SCOTT CLARK

Date of Birth: April 1944

Education:
-B.A., (Economics and Mathematics) Queen's University, Kingston
-Ph.D., (Economics) University of California, Berkeley, USA

Professional Experience

November 1994 to Present
Associate Deputy Minister of Finance

November 1992 - November 1994
Senior Assistant Deputy Minister and G-7 Deputy for Canada, Department of Finance

October 1989 - November 1992
Executive Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC

1986 - 1989
Assistant Deputy Minister, Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis, Department of Finance

1985 - 1986
Assistant Deputy Minister, Economic Programs and Government Finance, Department of Finance

1983 - 1985
General Director, Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis, Department of Finance

1978 - 1983
Director, Long Range and Structural Analysis Division, Department of Finance

1977 - 1978
Chief, Macro Projection and Modelling Unit, Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis Branch, Department of Finance

1975 - 1977
Senior Policy Analyst, Effectiveness Evaluation Division, Planning Branch, Treasury Board Secretariat

1971 - 1975
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Western Ontario, London

1969 - 1971
Lecturer in Economics, University of Western Ontario, London

1967 - 1968
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA



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