Donald Johnston

Honourable Donald J. Johnston PC OC QC Senior Minister in the Canadian Government: President of the Treasury Board; Minister of State for Science and Technology; (under PM P. Trudeau) Minister of State for Economic and Regional Development (cabinet of PM J. Turner). Secretary General of the OECD Paris (1996 – 2006), nomination of Canadian PM Jean Chrétien. The first non-European to occupy this prestigious position, Johnston was elected to a second term in 2001.

Green Planet2 years ago

Glasgow Climate World Summit: There is no Planet B

In November, the world’s attention will be focused on the proceedings and outcomes of the United Nations COP26 International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in...
Europe3 years ago

Taking For Granted … Be Wary

The title of these comments is inspired by my personal experience in important areas of public policy both as a politician beginning in the 1970s and...
Europe3 years ago

Of Multilateralism And Future To Europe Recalibration

As the key-note panelist at the Modern Diplomacy and IFIMES conference today in Vienna, the former Secretary General of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...

Modern Diplomacy

Donald Johnston

Stories By Donald Johnston

Glasgow Climate World Summit: There is no Planet B

Taking For Granted … Be Wary

Of Multilateralism And Future To Europe Recalibration