Senior appointments announced

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien today announced the following changes in the Public Service:

1. Michel Dorais, currently President of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, becomes Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Intergovernmental Operations), Privy Council Office.

2. Sid Gershberg, currently Assistant Deputy Minister, Programs and Divesture, Department of Transport, becomes President of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.

These changes are effective immediately.

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(Biographical notes attached)

Date of Birth: March 1952

Education:

- Diploma of Collegial Studies (Health Sciences), Valleyfield CÉGEP
- B.Sc.(Biology/Ecology), University of Ottawa
- Diploma, environmental studies and land management, UNESCO, Paris, Toulouse and Montpellier, France

Professional Experience

December 1994 to present
President, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency

May 1991 - December 1994
Executive Chairman, Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office

1989 - 1991
Vice-Chairman, then Chairman, Environmental Public Hearings Bureau (BAPE), Government of Quebec, then Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister on Environmental Assessment and Review, Environment Canada

1988 - 1989
Chief of Staff, Office of the Minister of Communications, Minister responsible for Technology and Minister of Supply and Services, Government of Quebec

1986 - 1988
Director, Investment Promotion, Investment Canada

1984 - 1986
Director General, Policy and Liaison, Labour Canada

1980 - 1984
Officer, then Senior Officer, Organization and Machinery of Government, Privy Council Office

1979 - 1980
Team Leader, Working Group on Architectural Heritage Conservation; Secretary, Interdepartmental Committee on Heritage Conservation; Team Leader, Zero-base Budgeting Project, Parks Canada, Environment Canada

1976 - 1979
Senior Analyst, Natural Resources Conservation Policies, Parks Canada, then Ministerial Assistant, Office of the Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Environment Canada

Date of Birth: April 1942

Education:

- B.A., Economics, McGill University
- M.A., Political Science, McGill University

Professional Experience

September 1996 to Present
Assistant Deputy Minister, Programs and Divestiture, Department of Transport

1987 - 1996
Assistant Secretary, Economic Programs Sector, Program Branch, Treasury Board of Canada

1986 - 1987
Assistant Secretary, Social Development Sector, Program Branch, Treasury Board of Canada

1983 - 1986
Assistant Secretary, Social Policy and Programs, Federal-Provincial Relations Office

1980 - 1981
Executive Director, Task Force on Unemployment Insurance, Canada Employment and Immigration Commission

1978 - 1983
Director General, Policy and Program Analysis Branch, Canada Employment and Immigration Commission

1977 - 1978
Acting Director General, Economic Analysis and Forecasts Branch, Employment and Immigration

1974 - 1977
Director, Social Planning and Evaluation, Unemployment Insurance Commission

1973 - 1974
Director, Special Projects, Unemployment Insurance Commission

1966 - 1972
Research Assistant, Royal Commission on Employer-Employee Relations in the Public Service of New Brunswick, then Assistant Director and later Director, Policy Research Division, Liberal Party of Canada

1965 - 1967
Teaching Assistant, then Course Administrative Head plus Teaching duties, McGill University


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