Graham Flack

Biography

Graham Flack is a recently retired federal public servant who held deputy minister positions in five different departments. He is currently a Commissioner on the Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission of Canada. He joined the federal government to work on the Quebec referendum and Secession Reference. He contributed to issues ranging from Canada’s first National Security Policy to the international response to the Global Financial Crisis to the provision of timely supports to Canadians during COVID. His final position was Secretary of the Treasury Board. Graham was the founding chair of the Deputy Minister Committee on Innovation and helped establish the Recruitment of Policy Leaders program. He serves on the Board of the Public Policy Forum, the Advisory Board of the Banff Forum and is a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute. He received degrees in political science and economics from Dalhousie University and the University of Oxford. He is a former law clerk of the Supreme Court of Canada and graduated with an LL.B. from Dalhousie University and an LL.M from Harvard University.