Louis Lévesque, Deputy Minister, International Trade, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Sylvia Ostry Lecture, Toronto, September 22, 2011: The Case for Trade - Why it is Key to the Future of Canadian Prosperity
Louis Lévesque was appointed Deputy Minister of International Trade on December 15, 2008. He served as Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Privy Council Office from 2006 to 2008, and as Associate Deputy Minister with Finance Canada from 2004 to 2006.
The Sylvia Ostry Lecture
The Institute is deeply honoured to host the annual Sylvia Ostry Lecture, endowed in honour of one of Canada’s foremost economists,
A Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School for Global Affairs, she has a Ph.D. in economics from McGill University and Cambridge.
During her long and high profile career, Dr. Ostry held a number of key positions in the Canadian Federal Government, among them, Chief Statistician, Deputy Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Chairman of the Economic Council of Canada, Deputy Minister of International Trade, Ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations, and the Prime Minister's Personal Representative for the Economic Summit.
From 1979 to 1983 she was Head of the Economics and Statistics Department of the OECD in Paris. She has received 19 honorary degrees from universities in Canada and abroad and, in 1987, received the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Government of Canada. In December, 1990 she was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, In June, 1991 she was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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