Carolyn McAskie,
currently a Senior Fellow in the Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs of the University of Ottawa, is a member of the
Boards of CANADEM and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre and is an Officer
of the Order of Canada. She has had a career in the Canadian
International Development Agency, particularly in Multilateral Affairs,
followed by almost a decade in the United Nations in Humanitarian
Affairs, Peacekeeping (as Head of the UN Mission in Burundi) and
Peacebuilding (launching the UN’s new Peacebuilding Commission. She
has served abroad in Kenya, with the Commonwealth Secretariat in
London, UK, as Canadian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka as well as in
Burundi with the UN.
Carolyn McAskie has played a prominent role in
political, developmental and financial negotiations: as a Canadian
delegate to the UN Funds and Programmes and the International Financial
Institutions; as a member of the Facilitation Team of the Burundi Peace
Process in Arusha under the late Julius Nyerere, the former President
of Tanzania; and as Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the
humanitarian crisis in Cote d'Ivoire.
