On October 12, 2022 the Prime Minister appointed David Morrison as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Prior to this, David served as Deputy Minister of International Trade and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the G7 Summit. Before that he was Foreign and Defence Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the G7 Summit. Previously at Global Affairs Canada, David held the positions of Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and Assistant Deputy Minister
(Americas) from 2013 to 2017. David began his career with the UN Development Programme in North Korea in the late 1980s. He served as a political officer at the Canadian Embassy in Havana from 1991 to 1994, and as a Director and Member of the Executive Board at the World
Economic Forum in Geneva from 1995 to 1999, where he was responsible for the
program of the annual summit in Davos. David holds a Master’s of Philosophy in international relations from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Arts in history from Yale University.