Sylvia Ostry

Sylvia Ostry   (economist)
Born	Sylvia Knelman June 3, 1927 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died	May 7, 2020 (Age 92)
Nationality	Canada
Ethnicity	Jewish
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (Girton College), McGill University
Spouse	Henry Isidore Wiseman
Member of	Group of Thirty
Quad Bilderberg Canadian economist and government advisor  Chair of the Centre for International Studies In office 1990 - 1997 Employer University of Toronto  Chair In office 1978 - 1970 Employer Economic Council of Canada

Sylvia Ostry was a Canadian economist and civil servant

She wrote a working paper on The United States and Europe: Coping with Change for the 1982 Bilderberg, when she worked for the OECD. She was a proponent of multilateralism, including trade treaties such as NAFTA and what would become the WTO

Education

She studied economics at McGill University, getting a Ph.D. in 1954. She then did postgraduate study at Cambridge University.

Career

She taught at Concordia University, McGill University, and Université de Montreal, all in Montreal, at Carleton University in Ottawa, and was a research fellow at the University of Toronto.

From 1990 to 1997, she chaired the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. From 1991 to 1997 she also served as chancellor of the University of Waterloo in Kitchener, Ontario, a mostly ceremonial post.

She was the chief statistician of the Government of Canada (1972–1975); deputy minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs (1975–1978); chair of the Economic Council of Canada (1978–1979); head of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the OECD in Paris (1979–1983); deputy minister for International Trade and coordinator of International Economic Relations for the Government of Canada (1984–1985); ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the prime minister's personal representative for the economic summit (1985–1988); Volvo Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York (1989–1990); western co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Commission for Hungary's Economic Recovery (1990–1994); and chair of the National Council of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1990–1995).

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1978	21 April 1978	23 April 1978	US New Jersey Princeton University	The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US
Bilderberg/1982	14 May 1982	16 May 1982	Norway Sandefjord	The 30th Bilderberg, held in Norway.
Bilderberg/1996	30 May 1996	2 June 1996	Canada Toronto	The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada
Bilderberg/2002	30 May 2002	2 June 2002	US Virginia Chantilly Westfields Marriott	The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.

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