04 April 2014
The deadline for nominations for the 2014 Canadian Foreign Service Officer Awards has been extended to Monday, April 14, 2014. Act now to ensure your peers get the recognition they deserve!
Details on nominations and eligibility for an award are available at https://www.pafso.com/pafso_awards.php.
Nominations may be sent either by fax to (613) 241-5911, by mail to Ms. Dilys Buckley-Jones, Secretary to the Awards Committee, PAFSO, 412 – 47 Clarence Street, Ottawa, ON, K1N 9K1, or by email to awards@pafso-apase.com.
All nominations will be carefully considered by an independent panel of distinguished judges from outside the active public service, and awardees will be announced at a dinner hosted by PAFSO at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Thursday, June 12, 2014. Members of the panel of judges are: Mr. Claude Laverdure (Chair), Mr. Denis Comeau, Ms. Claudette Deschênes, Mr. Scott Feschuk, Lt.Gen. (ret’d) Andrew Leslie and Ms. Maureen O’Neil.
Remember that career Foreign Service Officers who may have been nominated for other awards can also be nominated for the PAFSO Awards.
FS Award Recipients 1990-2013
- 2013: Robert Forest, Jennifer Hart, Claudie Senay, Thierry Weissenburger
- 2012: Sophie Auger, Virginie Saint-Louis, Gary Wallace, Terry Wood
- 2011: Hélène Girard, Jean-François Hubert-Rouleau, Ryan Kuffner, Roland Legault
- 2010: Patrice Nectoux, Jordan Reeves, Bushra Saeed, Jean-Philippe Tachdjian
- 2009: Léonard Beaulne, Jason LaTorre, Soyoung Park, Frank Ruddock
- 2008: Tim Kilbourn, Joanne Lemay, Anne Martel, Michael Watts
- 2007: Gavin Buchan, Bernard Etzinger, Gilles Poirier, Dina Santos
- 2006: Sanjeev Chowdhury, Manon Dumas, Bruce Grundison, Stewart Henderson
- 2005: Nicolas Drouin, Karen Foss, Jean Jacques Gauthier, Andrew Smith
- 2004: Lisa Helfand, Steve Hibbard, Lynn Lawless, Éric Mercier
- 2003: Christopher Alexander, David Manicom, Eileen Olexiuk, Ron Willson
- 2002: Stephen Brereton, Ross Glasgow, Diane Harper, Andrée Vary
- 2001: David Angell, Douglas Challborn, Isabelle Roy, Leslie Toope
- 2000: Daryl Copeland, Louis Dumas, Wendy Gilmour, Kathleen O’Brien
- 1999: Kathryn Aleong, Éloi Arsenault, Don Myatt & Jim Bissett, Shelly Whiting
- 1998: Deborah Chatsis, Patricia Fortier, Don McGillivray,Roman Waschuk
- 1997: David Bickford, Louise Leger, Guy Salesse, Ninon Valade
- 1996: Anne Arnott, Kerry Buck, Eduardo del Buey, Dominic Scott
- 1995: Jon Allen, Brian Casey, Nicholas Coghlan, William Pound
- 1994: Ian Burchett, Claudette Deschenes, Denis Gregoire de Blois, Carolyn McMaster
- 1993: Peter Boehm; Special Commendation: Lillian Zadravetz, Sam Hanson
Citations: Robert Peck, Georges Rioux, Bryan Burton - 1992: David Turner; Special Commendation: Daniel Jean
Citations: David Hardinge, Mervyn Meadows, Rene-Francois Desamore - 1991: Alexandra Bezerdi; Special Commendation: William Bowden. Citations: Guillermo Rishchynski, Claude Baillargeon
- 1990: Alexandra Bugailiskis & Daniel George; Citations: Gary Luton, Georges Paquet, Scott Mullin