Government of Yukon 

• Deputy Minister, Department of Finance & Secretary to Management Board  2025 - 2026

Senior Deputy Minister responsible for the territory’s budgeting, reporting through financial statements and annual reports, treasury and risk management, economic forecasting, statistical analysis and tax policy.

• Short term assignment to lead the department in the production of the supplementary estimates and development inaugural budget of the new government, Budget 2026.

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• Transition Team 2025

Named by Premier Dixon to a 3-person transition team to support the newly elected government to take office. Key activities were managing the transfer of power through the caretaker period, vetting personnel for key appointments including Cabinet, reviewing government departments and corporations, and developing priority agendas and the speech from the throne to ensure a functioning government immediately following swearing in.

 

 Government of Alberta

• Deputy Minister, Treasury Board and Finance 2022 - 2025

Senior Deputy Minister in government, Secretary to Treasury Board, responsible for the province’s budgeting, reporting through financial statements and annual reports, treasury and risk management, corporate income tax and other collections, financial sector policy and regulation, provincial bargaining coordination, economic forecasting, statistical analysis and tax policy.

• Led the Department through a government-wide reorganization and development of Budget 2023 through Budget 2025.  

• Coordinated a massively accelerated version of the budget cycle with many new departments, provided leadership and support to departments and Treasury Board through the accelerated cycle in 2023, a full budget cycle in 2024, and a tariff-uncertain Budget 2025 process.

• Led the development of a new fiscal rules package legislated with Budget 2023 and refined through Budget 2024.

• Led the renewal of Alberta’s Heritage Savings Trust Fund: a roadmap to securing Alberta’s future.

• Led the development of Alberta’s new Care-First Auto Insurance model, legislated in 2025.

• Provided strategic advice across the portfolio including public sector bargaining, pensions, financial sector regulation, taxation policy and collection, and provided economic advice to the Minister, Treasury Board and Cabinet.

 

• Deputy Minister, Jobs, Economy and Innovation 2020-2022

(formerly Economic Development, Trade, and Tourism)

Deputy Minister responsible for economic strategy, investment and economic growth, economic development, innovation and technology sector acceleration, trade, and tourism.​

• Led the Department through one of the most challenging times in Alberta’s recent economic history.

• Coordinated Alberta’s Recovery Plan across the Government of Alberta and developed and implemented Alberta’s Investment and Growth Strategy along with key sector strategies, including the Alberta Technology and Innovation Strategy and Tourism Bootstrap Strategy.

• Led the department through a structural transformation, focusing on evidence-based policy analysis and strategic advice.

• Provided economic advice to the Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation, senior officials, and coordinated input from the business sector to the Government of Alberta.

• Delivered key business sector support programs during COVID, including two tranches of the Small and Medium-sized Business Relaunch Grant. 

 

Government of Yukon 

Deputy Minister, Department of Finance & Secretary to Management Board 2015 - 2019

Senior Deputy Minister, Secretary to Management Board, responsible for the territory’s budgeting, reporting through financial statements and annual reports, treasury and risk management, economic forecasting, statistical analysis and tax policy.

• Led the Department of Finance through a massive cultural and structural transformation from transactional overseer of Yukon Government’s finances to a corporate leader across the organization focusing on evidence-based policy analysis and strategic advice.

• Provided economic, fiscal and legislative advice to Premier and Minister of Finance, Management Board, senior officials, NGO and business sectors.

• Responsible for the Yukon Financial Advisory Panel, the Yukon Government Carbon Rebate and annual Yukon Government Budgets as well as introducing the Yukon Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Update.

 

Government of Alberta

Assistant Deputy Minister, Treasury Board and Finance 2014 - 2015

Economics and Fiscal Policy                                                                                                                

• Led the division responsible for advice to the Minister of Treasury Board and Finance, Treasury Board Committee and senior officials across the entire organization on demographic, economic, tax and fiscal policy issues critical to the interest of the province.

• Oversaw vast portions of the annual budget and was responsible for the provision of current economic and statistical products and analyses as well as forecasts critical to the public and private sectors in Alberta.

 

Chief Economist and Executive Director, Treasury Board and Finance 2011- 2014

Economics, Demography and Public Finance

• Responsible for the demographic, economic and income tax forecasts, advice and analysis which underpin the Government of Alberta’s budget and strategic policy development across the entire organization and for informing external stakeholders through publications and public speaking.

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Previous Roles

• Deputy Chief Economist, Government of Alberta

• Senior Policy Advisor, Government of Alberta

• Senior Research Officer, Government of Alberta

• Financial Services Manager, Bank of Montreal