Karina Gould
Biography:
KARINA GOULD is Government House Leader and Canada's Minister of Families, Children and Social Development. She has represented her home town, Burlington, since she was first elected in 2015. Karina's previous cabinet roles include Minister of International Development, Minister of Democratic Institutions, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development and the Francophonie.
Prior to elected politics, international development was the primary focus of Karina's career. She began that journey as a volunteer in an orphanage in Mexico, and fundraising for humanitarian aid for Haitian earthquake victims. Her most notable international development roles was that of a consultant for the Migration and Development Program of the Organization of American States. She is cited as contributing to the 2011 report, International Migration in the Americas: First Report of the Continuous Reporting System on International Migration in the Americas (SICREMI).
Karina has a joint honours BA Political Science and in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from McGill University, and MA in International Relations from St Hilda's College, Oxford University.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karina_Gould
Activities:
- 2020-01-10 – Pierre Trudeau Centennial — Liberal Internationalism, Then and Now: The Foreign Policy of Pierre Trudeau