Prime Minister Announces Changes in the Senior Ranks of the 
Public Service

March 3, 2000
Ottawa, Ontario 

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

C. Scott Clark, currently Deputy Minister of Finance, becomes Senior Advisor to the Privy Council Office. 

Kevin Lynch, currently Deputy Minister of Industry, becomes Deputy Minister of Finance. 

V. Peter Harder, currently Secretary of the Treasury Board and Comptroller General of Canada, becomes Deputy Minister of Industry. 

These appointments are effective March 20, 2000. 

Biographical notes attached. 

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C. SCOTT CLARK


Born: April 1944 

Education

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

Professional Experience

July 1997 to Present 
Deputy Minister of Finance 

November 1994 - July 1997 
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 

KEVIN G. LYNCH


Born
: January 1951 

Education

- B.A., (Honours) Economics, Mount Allison University 
- M.A., Economics, University of Manchester 
- Ph.D., Economics, McMaster University 

Professional Experience

October 1995 to Present 
Deputy Minister of Industry 

November 1992 - October 1995 
Associate Deputy Minister of Industry 

1992 (February to October) 
Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis Branch, Department of
Finance 

October 1989 - 1992 
Assistant Deputy Minister, Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis Branch, Department of Finance 

1988 - 1989 
Assistant Deputy Minister, International Trade and Finance Branch, Department of Finance 

1983 - November 1988 
Director, Economic Forecasting Division, Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis Branch, then in
1986, General Director, Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis Branch, Department of Finance 

1981 - 1983 
Assistant Chief, Financial Flows Section, then Chief, Financial Modelling and Research Section,
Capital Markets Division, Department of Finance 

1976 - 1981 
Economist, Special Studies Group, Department of Monetary and Financial Analysis, then Senior
Economist, Special Studies Group, Research Department, Bank of Canada 

V. PETER HARDER


Born: August 1952 

Education

- B.A. (Honours - Political Science), University of Waterloo 
- M.A. (Political Studies), Queen's University 

Professional Experience

December 1995 to Present 
Secretary of the Treasury Board and Comptroller General for Canada 

November 1993 - December 1995 
Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and then Special Advisor to the Minister of
Citizenship and Immigration 

February 1993 to November 1993 
Deputy Solicitor General and, in June 1993, Deputy Minister designate of the Department of Public
Security 

1991 - 1993 
Associate Deputy Minister (Immigration), Department of Employment and Immigration 

1987 - 1991 
Executive Director, Immigration and Refugee Board 

1986 - 1987 
Assistant to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian National Railways 

1984 - 1986 
Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister 

1980 - 1983 
Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition 

1977 - 1980 
Foreign Service Officer, Department of External Affairs



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