Director of Water Policy, Environment and Climate Change Canada
In 2020, Mike Goffin took on a special assignment as director general of the Canada Water Agency Project within Environment and Climate Change Canada. Over the course of his more than 30-year career in the public service of Canada, Goffin has been engaged in policy develop and program delivery in areas that include environmental protection, wildlife management, meteorology, water and ecosystem management, intergovernmental affairs, and community outreach and engagement.
For more than a decade, Goffin has been responsible for leading Canada’s efforts to restore and protect the water quality and ecosystem health of the Great Lakes and in 2012 he was lead negotiator for Canada responsible for the negotiation of the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Goffin has been a long serving member of the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board, and also currently serves as Canadian co-chair of the International Joint Commission’s International Rainy Lake of the Woods Watershed Board.
Goffin received his undergraduate training in environmental studies from the University of Toronto, and a mater’s degree in geomorphology, also from the University of Toronto.