Sylvia Ostry
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| Born | Sylvia Knelman June 3, 1927 Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada |
| Died | May 7, 2020 |
| Nationality | Canada |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (Girton College), McGill University |
| Spouse | Henry Isidore Wiseman |
Quad Bilderberg Canadian economist and government advisor | |
Sylvia Ostry was a Canadian economist and civil servant[1][2]
She wrote a working paper on The United States and Europe: Coping with Change for the 1982 Bilderberg,[3] when she worked for the OECD. She was a proponent of multilateralism, including trade treaties such as NAFTA and what would become the WTO[4]
Education
She studied economics at McGill University, getting a Ph.D. in 1954. She then did postgraduate study at Cambridge University.
Career
She taught at Concordia University, McGill University, and Université de Montreal, all in Montreal, at Carleton University in Ottawa, and was a research fellow at the University of Toronto.
From 1990 to 1997, she chaired the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. From 1991 to 1997 she was also chancellor of the University of Waterloo in Kitchener, Ontario, a mostly ceremonial post.[5]
She was the chief statistician of the Government of Canada (1972–1975); deputy minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs (1975–1978); chair of the Economic Council of Canada (1978–1979); head of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the OECD in Paris (1979–1983); deputy minister for International Trade and coordinator of International Economic Relations for the Government of Canada (1984–1985); ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the prime minister's personal representative for the economic summit (1985–1988); Volvo Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York (1989–1990); western co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Commission for Hungary's Economic Recovery (1990–1994); and chair of the National Council of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1990–1995).[5]