Dominic Barton
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Dominic Barton (born 1962), known as Bao Damin (Chinese: 鲍达民) in China, is a Ugandan-born Canadian business executive, author, management consultant, and diplomat. He currently serves as the Canadian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.[1] Prior to this, Barton was the Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm, from 2009 to 2018. He has held his current position as Ambassador since September 5, 2019.[2][3] He is also the incumbent chancellor at the University of Waterloo and has previously served as Chairman of Teck Resources and as Non-Executive Director at the Singtel Group in Singapore and Investor AB in Sweden. [4]
Barton earned his Master of Philosophy in Economics at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar and has advised Canadian governments, both Liberal and Conservative, on public sector transformation and economic growth. [5][6]
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After graduating, Barton worked briefly as a currency analyst for N M Rothschild & Sons in London. In 1986, he was hired by McKinsey & Company to work in the company's Toronto office,[12][15] and worked from that office as a management consultant for eleven years.[7] He was nominated to be a partner earlier than normal, but was not promoted to that level until his third attempt.[16][17]
Barton was eventually elected to the position of Global Managing Director, a role that he served in from 2009 to 2018 for the maximum of three terms. After this role, Barton became Global Managing Director Emeritus for a year while accepting a broader range of philanthropic and advisory positions. On September 5, 2019, he was appointed as the Canadian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China.[18]
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