14 March 2013
The deadline for nominations for the 2013 FS Awards is fast approaching. Act now to ensure your peers get the recognition they deserve!
Have a look at the impressive list of past Award recipients below. Now take a moment to consider if there is a Foreign Service Officer at your mission or on your team in Ottawa who deserves to be added to this list in recognition of his/her exceptional contribution.
The Canadian Foreign Service Officer Awards were instituted in 1990 by the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) as a means of providing peer recognition of exceptional achievement by career FS.
Up to four Awards, which include a cash prize, will be given. This year’s Awards recipients will be announced at a dinner hosted by PAFSO at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Thursday, June 13, 2013. Further details on tickets for the dinner will be available in due course.
PAFSO has prepared a guideline for nominations and a brochure describing the Awards. Copies are available from the PAFSO office and on the PAFSO web site at: http://www.pafso-apase.com/Foreign_Service_Awards_Brochure.php. Nominations are welcome from all interested parties including departmental managers, the private sector, NGOs, as well as the public. All nominations must be received at the PAFSO office by April 5, either by fax (613) 241-5911; e-mail: awards@pafso-apase.com, or by post to Ms Dilys Buckley-Jones, Secretary, FS Awards Committee, 47 Clarence Street, Suite 412, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9K1. It would also be helpful if you would let us know in advance that you will be submitting a nomination.
Remember that career Foreign Service Officers who may have been nominated for other awards can also be nominated for the PAFSO Awards.
Past Award Recipients:
- 2012: Sophie Auger, Virginie Saint-Louis, Gary Wallace, Terry Wood
- 2011: Jean-François Hubert-Rouleau, Hélène Girard, Roland Legault, Ryan Kuffner
- 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 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 Léger, 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 Deschênes, Denis Grégoire de Blois, Carolyn McMaster
- 1993: Peter Boehm, Lillian Zadravetz, Sam Hanson, Robert Peck, Georges Rioux, Bryan Burton
- 1992: David Turner, Daniel Jean, David Hardinge, Mervyn Meadows, René-François Désamoré
- 1991: Alexandra Bezeredi, William Bowden, Guillermo Rishchynski, Claude Baillargeon
- 1990: Alexandra Bugailiskis, Daniel George, Gary Luton, Georges Paquet, Scott Mullin