Primary Job Title Board of Directors Primary Organization 
Blackberry
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
Wouters has served as a director of the Corporation since October 2015. Wouters has an honours bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a master’s degree in economics from Queen’s University. He is a Strategic and Policy Advisor to McCarthy Tétrault LLP and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of United Way
Worldwide.
From 2009 to 2014, Wouters was the Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada and, in that capacity, held the roles of Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister, Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Public Service.
Prior to his tenure as Clerk, Wouters was Secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada and served in deputy ministerial and other senior positions in the Canadian public service. Wouters has received numerous awards, including an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the André Mailhot Award for lifetime achievement from the United Way Canada.
He was inducted by the Prime Minister as a member of the Privy Council in 2014.
