Bio
Mark Jewett, KC, is a CIGI senior fellow with experience in senior positions in both the public and private sectors. Over the course of his public service career, he was the general counsel and corporate secretary at the Bank of Canada, and senior assistant deputy minister in the Departments of Finance and Justice. He was also general counsel, constitutional and international law, Department of Justice; general counsel, Department of National Revenue; and tax counsel, Tax Policy and Legislation Branch, Department of Finance.
In the private sector, Mark practised with Bennett Jones in Ottawa and Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He was also a special adviser with the European Commission, in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and the Value Added Tax Directorate in Brussels.
Mark is a member of the Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association.