Peter Michael Boehm (born April 26, 1954) is a Canadian politician, former

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and deputy minister. He was appointed to the

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in October 2018. Boehm was ambassador of Canada to Germany from 2008 to 2012. He was associate deputy minister and then senior associate deputy minister at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada from 2012 to 2016. He became deputy minister of international development in March 2016, and on July 31, 2017, was appointed deputy minister for the 2018 G7 Summit. He also continued as the Canadian " Sherpa" or personal representative of the prime minister for the G7 summits, as well as the Nuclear Security Summit. On October 3, 2018, Boehm was nominated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the Senate after he was recommended by the

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Education

Boehm holds a PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh with the thesis 'Towards principled influence : an overview of Canadian foreign policy, 1943-1948', a master's degree in international relations from Carleton University and an honours bachelor's degree in English and history from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Career

A career diplomat, Boehm has served as assistant deputy minister for the Americas, North America, and consular affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, where he was also the department's first chief political/economic officer. From 1997 to 2001 he was ambassador and permanent representative to the

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(OAS). From 2001 to 2004 he was

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(political and public affairs) at the

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. He has held a variety of positions at the department and has also been assigned to the Canadian Embassies in Havana and

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. In 1993 he received the Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award for his contribution to the establishment of peace in Central America. In the Americas, he served as national summit coordinator for the Santiago and Québec City Summits, special envoy for the OAS Democratization Mission in Peru and personal representative (sherpa) of the prime minister for the Mar del Plata Summit in 2005. From 2005 to 2008 he was the senior official responsible for the North American Leaders' Summits. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award, the most prestigious award in the

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. From 2008 to 2012 he was Canadian ambassador in Berlin. In November 2012 he was appointed associate deputy minister (and later, senior associate deputy minister) of Foreign Affairs. He was the deputy minister of international development from March 2016, and in June 2017 he was appointed as the deputy minister for the G7 Summit. Boehm retired from the public service in September 2018 and was appointed to the Senate in early October. He represents Ontario in the upper chamber.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boehm, Peter Living people Politicians from Kitchener, Ontario Canadian people of German descent Ambassadors of Canada to Germany Permanent Representatives of Canada to the Organization of American States Canadian senators from Ontario Independent Canadian senators 1954 births