Malcolm Brown

After nearly 31 years as public servant and a decade at the Deputy Minister level, Malcolm Brown retired from the the federal Public Service on April 24th, 2019.  He is currently a Senior Strategic Advisor with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He is also sits on the Board of the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington, DC based think tank. 

Prior to his retirement he served as the Deputy Minister of Public Safety between 2016 and 2019.  In this role he led major policy and legislative initiatives in the areas of national security, cyber security, emergency management and corrections reform and ensured coordinated actions across the Public Safety Portfolio, which includes the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canada Border Services Agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Correctional Service of Canada and the Parole Board of Canada.

Malcolm Brown served as Special Advisor to the Clerk of the Privy Council on the Syrian Refugee Initiative between 2015 and 2016 supporting the selection, screening, arrival and settlement of more than 25,000 Syrian refugees.

Malcolm Brown was also the Deputy Minister of International Development from 2014 to 2015.  In this role he oversaw Canada’s international development agenda, and served as Canada’s Alternate Governor for the World Bank.

He was also appointed Executive Vice President of the Canada Border Services Agency in 2011 and Associate Deputy Minister of Natural Resources in 2009.

Malcolm Brown began his federal public service career in the Federal Provincial Relations Office in 1990.  He then worked at Health Canada and later at the Privy Council Office where, among other senior positions, he served as Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for the Reference Group of Ministers on Aboriginal Policy.  Between 2002 and 2009, he occupied assistant deputy minister-level positions with Human Resources Development Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), culminating with the position of Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy and Research, HRSDC. 

He also worked in the Ontario government in the Ministries of Housing and Intergovernmental Affairs.

Malcolm Brown holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies from Queen's University and a Master of Arts in Political Science from York University.