Kerry Buck is currently a senior fellow with Trinity College, University of Toronto and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, serves as a Senior Mentor at the Canadian Forces College and is a member of the Boards for the Conference of Defence Associations Institute and the Réseau d’Analyse Stratégique.
She was Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO from 2015 to 2018. Prior to that, Ms. Buck served as Political Director and Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and Political Affairs, as well as serving in Assistant Deputy Minister positions on Afghanistan, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East. Earlier in her career she was posted to the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Ms. Buck led Canadian government Task Forces for Afghanistan, Russia/Ukraine, Syria, Mali, the Haiti earthquake and other foreign policy and humanitarian crises. Throughout her diplomatic career, she supported Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers at the G7 and NATO Summits and represented Canada at the UN, G7, NATO, OAS and OSCE on issues of human rights, security, disarmament, terrorism and humanitarian affairs. She represented Canada on international negotiation of Women, Peace and Security issues from 1992 to 2018, helping build international law and practice on combatting gender-based violence.