Don Ferguson

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Biography

Mr. Don Ferguson holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of New Brunswick. He joined the New Brunswick Public Service in 1977 as a geologist with the Department of Natural Resources. From 1981 to 1987, he worked as a compensation officer at the Board of Management. He became manager of the Pension Programs at the Department of Finance in 1987 and remained there for five years. In 1992, he joined the then Department of Income Assistance as director of programs and was promoted in 1996 to Assistant Deputy Minister of the Income Security Division of the Department of Human Resources Development. Mr. Ferguson was Deputy Minister of Training and Employment Development from 2001 to 2003, Deputy Minister of Family and Community Services until September 2007, and Deputy Minister of Health from 2007 to 2012.

Recent appointments have included that of technical advisor to the Pan-American Health Organization in Barbados, Chief Strategy Officer for the New Brunswick Institute of Research, Data and Training at the University of New Brunswick, temporary board member of the National Energy Board, member of the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Chair of CIHR’s Departmental Audit Committee. He is currently the Principal of On Point Consulting. In 2016, Mr. Ferguson received a honourary doctorate in public administration from the Université de Moncton and he was the 2018 Recipient of the Lieutenant-Governor Award for Excellence in Public Service. He is fluent in English, French, and Spanish.

Mr. Ferguson has also a deep interest in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and is trying to make a difference and contribute to the Reconciliation process. He is doing so by learning about indigenous history including the pre and post contact periods and speaking to groups on how interactions with colonizers and subsequent government entities have shaped the current landscape.   

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