Reid Morden, CM (born June 17, 1941) was the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 1988-1992. From 1991-1994, Morden served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs . He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1999. ^[1]

Education [ edit ]

Morden graduated from Dalhousie University in 1963 with a Bachelor of Laws . He later received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Dalhousie.

Career [ edit ]

Morden started his career with the Canadian Department of External Affairs. His first posting was in Pakistan. From 1991-1994, Morden served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs .

Morden was named director of CSIS in 1988, and served in that capacity for four years. ^[2] While there, he oversaw the destruction of security files for John Diefenbaker , Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau on 30 January 1989. ^[3]

Later he caused a stir by defending former director Ted Finn 's erasing of 156 tapes of evidence before the Air India Inquiry . ^{[4] [5] [6]}

In addition, Morden has served as President of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited 1994-1998, and worked in the private sector with Kroll and KPMG Forensic Inc 2000-. ^[7] In 2000 Morden received the Order of Canada. ^[8] In June 2005, Morden was appointed to assist the commission of inquiry dealing with the case of Maher Arar .

Today he runs the security analysis firm Reid Morden & Associates , while acting as Executive Director of the Volcker Inquiry into the United Nations ' Oil-for-Food Programme . He is also a Director of the HSLA industry trade group . Morden sits on the Board of Governors for Trent University , and is an advisor to the Schulich School of Business ' MBA program. Morden is a Grand Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross . ^[9]

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