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Mark Entwistle is a consultant who draws on a rich and integrated mix
of professional experience across disciplines, and over more than
twenty years, in international affairs and global business,
negotiation and diplomacy, strategic communications, media relations,
public affairs and advocacy, government relations and operations, and
public policy issue management.
He is currently Vice-President, International and Government Affairs
with ExecAdvice Corporation (www.execadvice.ca)
and Senior Associate with Prospectus Associates (www.prospectusassociates.com),
Canadian affiliate of Golin/Harris International. Mr. Entwistle is
finishing a book on Cuba for Penguin Books and is co-author of
a study of Canadian foreign policy entitled In the National
Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy in an Insecure World. He is a
Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.
He served for sixteen years from 1981-1997 in the Canadian diplomatic
service. His Foreign Service career included assignments at the
Canadian Embassies in Tel Aviv, Israel (1982-1985) and Moscow, in the
former USSR (1986-1989), where he was responsible for political
analysis and bilateral relations.
In 1990, he worked as Departmental Assistant for Parliamentary Affairs
to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, where he managed the relations
between the Minister and all institutions of Parliament.
Mr. Entwistle acquired extensive practical field experience in
government operations and communications, beginning in 1989, when he
acted as Media Spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs. In
1991, he was seconded to the Prime Minister's Office as Deputy Press
Secretary responsible for foreign policy. Months later, he was
appointed by former Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Brian
Mulroney, to serve as his Press Secretary and director of
communications. In that position, he was responsible directly for all
aspects of the Prime Minister's relations with the media and the
public communication and marketing of the policies of the Canadian
federal government on all issues and across the full range of
government departments and agencies.
He was at the center of planning across government for all policy
matters involving the Prime Minister, including national policy
initiatives, and the engagement of the Prime Minister on the
international scene, including four G-8 Summits and numerous bilateral
visits with foreign Heads of Government.
Mr. Entwistle served as Ambassador of Canada to Cuba for four years
from 1993-1997, responsible for the historically sensitive
relationship with Fidel Castro's Cuba under the vigilant eye of the
United States, including political, commercial and security relations.
He was the architect of a dynamic trade development strategy. Canada's
trade with Cuba increased markedly, doubling year-over-year for two
years in a row and, during his tenure, Canada became Cuba's largest
trade and investment partner.
In a 1997 book on the bilateral relationship between Canada and Cuba,
Mr. Entwistle's tenure as Ambassador to Cuba is described in the
following words:
"Of
particular importance is Mark Entwistle ...A tireless and extremely
talented negotiator, he is undoubtedly the most dynamic and
successful Ambassador to Cuba during the revolutionary period."
He is Director of the Canadian Urban Institute, a Toronto-based
public policy think-tank that seeks to improve understanding of urban
issues and policy-making and management in Canadian and world cities.
Mr. Entwistle is Executive Director of the Ottawa Parliamentary
Forum, an initiative of Canadian parliamentarians to bring
together legislators from the Israeli Knesset and the Palestinian
Legislative Council to re-open some channels of communication into
Middle East dialogue and reconciliation. He is also Chairman of
Upstream Strategies International and Friends without Borders
Group, non-governmental organizations involved in conflict
prevention and international development.
He is the recipient of the prestigious Saul Hayes Award for Human
Rights of the Canadian Jewish Congress for his work in
supporting the Cuban Jewish community.
Mr. Entwistle is Director of YM Biosciences Inc., a
biotechnology development company specializing in oncology, and of the
Coral Capital Group.
He obtained his B.A. from the University of Ottawa in 1979 and his
Masters degree in History from the University of Toronto in 1981.
He speaks three languages fluently: English, French and Spanish, as
well as working Russian.
CV of Mark
Entwistle
Keywords: Canadian foreign policy, diplomacy, Cuba, Canadian-US
relations, political communications.
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