Associate Deputy Minister

In September 2009, Stephen Wallace was appointed Associate Deputy Minister for Canadian Heritage.

Stephen Wallace’s career has largely focused on international affairs and development cooperation including experience with non-government organizations, fieldwork in Africa and Latin America, and over 25 years with the federal government.

Mr. Wallace joined the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in 1984. Successive positions within the Africa, Americas and Multilateral Affairs Branches, interspersed with fieldwork in Central America and graduate work in business administration, led in 1994 to a secondment as policy advisor to the Special Joint Committee of Parliament Reviewing Canadian Foreign Policy.  From 1995 to 1997, he was senior departmental advisor in turn to four cabinet Ministers.

From 1997 to 2001, he was a Director in CIDA’s Central and Eastern Europe Branch with special responsibility for the conflict areas of Bosnia and Kosovo.  Following a two-year assignment as Director-General in CIDA’s Africa and the Middle East Branch, he was appointed to the Treasury Board Secretariat with principal responsibility as Assistant Secretary for Government Operations.  Mr. Wallace returned to CIDA in 2005 as Vice-President of CIDA’s Policy Branch.  In March 2007, he was appointed Vice-President of the CIDA Afghanistan Task Force.