Meghan Brown Deschamps joined Transport Canada in April 2023 to provide strategic advice to the Deputy Ministers, and their office, on key files. In May 2024, she shifted into the role of Director of Policy and Issues Management. Meghan has gained extensive experience in strategic analysis, issues management and policy development over the course of her 16 years as a Federal Public Servant.
Prior to joining the Deputy Minister’s Office at Transport Canada, she held similar advisory roles in the Deputy Minister’s Office at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, working as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Minister, as well as Chief of Staff to two Associate Deputy Ministers. She has also held roles in intelligence collection and analysis, international information sharing, litigation management and digital project management at Passport Canada, Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees Canada and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Meghan received both her B.A. in Law & English and M.A. in Legal Studies from Carleton University. She currently volunteers as a Board Member with a not-for profit center for integral child development and as a mentor to current students at her alma-mater.