The Future Of The Canadian Foreign Service

CIPS Director Rita Abrahamsen is joined by career…

An episode of the CIPS POD podcast, hosted by CIPS - uOttawa - CÉPI, titled "The Future Of The Canadian Foreign Service" was published on September 6, 2022 and runs 22 minutes.

September 6, 2022 ·22m · CIPS POD

Summary

CIPS Director Rita Abrahamsen is joined by career diplomats Kerry Buck and Ulric Shannon (also a CIPS Research Fellow) to discuss his new report, "Competitive Expertise and Future Diplomacy: Subject-Matter Specialization in Generalist Foreign Ministries", which highlights the best practices that other foreign ministries have developed, which could be adapted to the needs of the Canadian diplomatic service as part of a future reform agenda, perhaps in response to the findings of the Senate or of Minister Joly’s Future of Diplomacy initiative. Read the full report here: https://www.cips-cepi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Competitive-Expertise-and-Future-Diplomacy-published-version.pdf Read a summary blog here: https://www.cips-cepi.ca/2022/09/06/the-future-of-the-canadian-foreign-service/ View a short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA7f1QpHdp0&feature=emb_logo Erratum: in the podcast, we accidentally give the date for the last time a Global Affairs Deputy Minister as 2003. The correct date is 2010.

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