Peter Michael Boehm (born April 26, 1954) is a Canadian politician, former
diplomat
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and
deputy minister
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. He was appointed to the
Senate of Canada
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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
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History
SHERPA began as an endeavour to support the establishment of a number of open ...
" 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
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Justin Trudeau
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University of Edinburgh
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with the thesis 'Towards principled influence : an overview of Canadian foreign policy, 1943-1948', a master's degree in international relations from
Carleton University
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and an honours bachelor's degree in English and history from
Wilfrid Laurier University
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.
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
Organization of American States
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(OAS). From 2001 to 2004 he was minister (political and public affairs) at the Canadian Embassy in Washington.
He has held a variety of positions at the department and has also been assigned to the Canadian Embassies in
Havana
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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
Public Service of Canada
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. From 2008 to 2012 he was Canadian ambassador in
Berlin
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. 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.