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IDRC President Maureen O’Neil is part of the Canadian delegation accompanying Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Canada’s Governor General, on a five-country State visit to Africa, November 19 to December 11, 2006.

O’Neil is one of a number of distinguished Canadians from civil society invited by the Governor General to join her on the visit. The delegation will visit Algeria, Mali, Ghana, Morocco, and South Africa.

Read an overview of IDRC's work in Africa and in the countries to be visited by the delegation

Maureen O'Neil, Biographical Note

Maureen O'Neil is President of the International Development Research Centre. Her previous positions include Interim President of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, President of The North-South Institute, and Deputy Minister of Citizenship for the Government of Ontario. Ms O'Neil is active on a number of Canadian and international boards, including the International Board of Governors of the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Corporate Social Responsibility Advisory Council of Canada's Export Development Corporation.

Prior service includes terms as chair of the Board of Governors of Carleton University, co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Digital Divide Supervisory Committee, and member of the Policy Advisory Group of the UK Department for International Development, among many others. Ms O'Neil has a BA in Sociology from Carleton University and Honorary LLDs from Carleton University and Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also a Fellow of the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.

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