8 January 2007
Represents: Canada, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines
In 2006 Samy Watson was nominated as Canada's representative to the World Bank Group. Prior to his nomination, Mr. Watson most recently worked briefly as a Special Advisor to the Privy Council office. Before that, he was the Canadian Deputy Minister of the Environment and the Deputy Minister of Agriculture from 2000-2004.
His career in the Canadian federal public service began in 1980 in the Administrative Trainee Program where he went on to assume the position of Senior Project Manager for Revenue Canada in Customs and Excise. From 1982-1987 Mr. Watson was a part of various assignments and acted as a Senior Advisor for serveral positions with Transport Canada. He then became a Policy Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Transport Canada from 1987-1990. From 1990-1996, Mr. Watson held several Director positions in the Departmnet of Finance, specifically relating to tax policy. In 1996, he shifted to the position of Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet (Priorities and Planning) at the Privy Council Office where he was then promoted to Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet in 1997.
Mr. Watson received a B.A. in Political Science and a Ph.D in Leadership from Andrews University in Michigan in addition to a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto and a M.P.A. from Dalhousie University.
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