Maria Barrados is a Canadian government official. She is the former president of the

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and chair of Accreditation Canada International. She is currently an Executive-in-Residence at the

Sprott School of Business The Sprott School of Business is a doctoral-granting business school at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – the nation’s capital. It is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the Netw ...

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, and partner at Barrados Consulting Inc. Barrados also serves on various board and advisory committees for public service reform, evaluation and measurement, and human resource management.

Career

Barrados was the manager of evaluation at

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from 1977 to 1984. She started her career in the Canadian Government as the Chief of Educational Statistics Analysis in the Education Support Branch in 1984. In 1985, she joined the Office of the Auditor General as the Director of Audit Operations, and was promoted to Principal in 1988. Barrados served as the Assistant Auditor General from 1993 to 2003, before becoming the interim President of the

in 2003. She was confirmed President in 2004 and served until 2011.

Volunteer work

Barrados serves on various Advisory Boards including at the

and Confucius Institute at

, and is also a member of the Rothwell Heights Community Association. She has previously served as the Vice-Chair on the Board of Directors of the Praxis Spinal Cord Institute from 2014-2020.

Education

Barrados received an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the

University of Saskatchewan A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

in 1966. She also holds an MA in Sociology from

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(1970) and a PhD in Sociology from

in 1978.

Publications

Barrados, M. (Ed.), Lonsdale, J. (Ed.). (2020). Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003021025 Barrados, Maria. (2020). The Practices of Audit and Evaluation
10.4324/9781003021025-6
Barrados, Maria. (2018). Challenges for Governance in Partnerships for Delivering Services 1: The Partnership Dimension
10.4324/9781351323925-16
Barrados, Maria & Blain, J.. (2013). Improving Program Results Through the Use of Predictive Operational Performance Indicators A Canadian Case Study. American Journal of Evaluation. 34. 45-56
10.1177/1098214012464426
Barrados, Maria & Mayne, John. (2004). Les organisations du secteur public peuvent-elles apprendre ?. Revue de l'OCDE sur la gestion budgétaire. 3. 17-17
10.1787/budget-v3-art17-fr
Barrados, M. & Mayne, John & Wileman, T.. (2000). Accountability for Collaborative Programme Delivery Arrangements in Canada's Federal Government: Some Consequences of Sharing the Business of Government. International Review of Administrative Sciences - INT REV ADM SCI. 66. 495-511
10.1177/0020852300663008

References

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