BIOGRAPHIES
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Douglas George joined the Department of External Affairs
and International Trade in 1982 as a Desk Officer for the
Commercial Policy Division. His assignments in Ottawa
included work in the Department’s Consular Operations
Bureau, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT) Affairs Division, US Trade and Economic Policy, and
work as a Senior Departmental Assistant in the Office of the
Minister of International Trade. In 1997 he became Director
of the Softwood Lumber Division, then Director of the
Intellectual Property, Information and Communications
Technology Trade Policy Division. He also has served as
Director of the Tariffs and Goods Market Access Division.
Abroad, Mr. George served in Kingston, Jamaica as Second
Secretary and at Canada’s Mission to the GATT (Geneva) as
First Secretary in Geneva. From 2000 to 2004 he was
Counsellor at the Canadian Mission to the European Union.
From 2011 to 2014, he served as Canada’s Ambassador to
Kuwait. Mr. George took up his current assignment as
Consul General of Canada in Detroit, representing Canada
in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana,and Kentucky, on May 2, 201