Ward P.D. Elcock (born August 1947) is a

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who served as the Director of the

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from 1994 until May 2004. He remains the only Director to have ever served out his entire tenure. He served as the Deputy Minister of National Defence from August 5, 2004 to October 1, 2007. He was born in Victoria, B.C. in 1947 to

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F. Dudley Elcock and Mary Grace Pitfield and is the oldest of four children (Hew, Julia and Mark (deceased)). He is the grandson of deceased Canadian financier Ward C. Pitfield and Grace Pitfield (née MacDougall). He is the nephew of former

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, the retired Senator late

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, and retired financier Ward C. Pitfield, Jr. A

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graduate in

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from

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, Elcock received his

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from

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. Elcock served as the ''Security & Intelligence'' Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council Office for five years, and as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet (Legislation and House Planning/Counsel) for six years, prior to his rise to CSIS and National Defence. In 2007, Elcock was named Senior Advisor to the Privy Council Office "pending his next assignment". In 2010, he was the chief of the

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s organized for the

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in Vancouver, the 36th G8 summit in

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, and the 4th G-20 summit in Toronto. Between 2010 and 2016 he was Special Advisor on Human Smuggling and Illegal Migration in the Privy Council Office. Elcock lives in Ottawa and is married with two children.

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1947 births Carleton University alumni Directors of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Living people People from Victoria, British Columbia {{Canada-gov-bio-stub