Deputy Minister/CEO

Deputy Minister and CEO Catherine Blewett

Catherine Blewett is the Deputy Minister and CEO of the Office of Aboriginal Affairs and the Department of Intergovernmental Affairs.

She entered public service in 1990, working with the Government of Nova Scotia in the Department of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs.

In 2001, she joined the federal public service, accepting a position with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. She was the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Director of Infrastructure, with responsibility for a range of intergovernmental files and managing federal-provincial infrastructure agreements.

In 2009, she joined Citizenship and Immigration Canada as the Director of Operations for Nova Scotia. Ms. Blewett is also a professor in Intergovernmental Relations at Dalhousie University's Masters of Public Administration program.

She lives with her husband and three teenaged children in Halifax.