Steve MacLean has been appointed to the position of Clerk of Executive Council and Secretary to Cabinet, Premier Robert Ghiz announced today.
Mr. MacLean has a great deal of experience as a public servant, and I am very pleased that he has accepted the leadership responsibility of the Clerk position,” the Premier said.
Most recently, Mr. MacLean has served as Deputy Minister of Finance. For the time being, that position will be filled by Treasury Board Secretary Doug Clow on an interim basis.
For all intents and purposes, the Clerk of Executive Council is the head of the Prince Edward Island public service. Reporting directly to the Premier, the Clerk is charged with the implementation of Government’s policy direction. Mr. MacLean assumes his new duties immediately.
Biography:
Steve MacLean, Clerk of Executive Council and Secretary to Cabinet, was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, and grew up in Albany Village and Milton. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (Dalhousie).
A career civil servant, Mr. MacLean worked in private sector engineering capacities for two years prior to joining the provincial civil service as an Evaluation Engineer with PEI Transportation and Public Works in 1987. He spent several years involved in program review, evaluation and research. Subsequently, while in the transportation department, Mr. MacLean gained diverse career experience having taken on professional engineering responsibility within highway design and capital project administration, senior management and leadership experience as provincial Director of the Highway Maintenance and as Chief Engineer prior to being appointed Deputy Minister. Mr. MacLean served as Deputy Minister of Transportation and Public Works from January 2002 until January 2010 and as Deputy Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal from January 2010 to November 2011. Mr. MacLean was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance, Energy and Municipal Affairs effective November 15th, 2011, a position he filled prior to his appointment as Clerk of Executive Council.
Professionally, he has been a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of PEI since 1985. His Board director experience prior to assuming his current portfolio includes public entities such as: Transportation Association of Canada, Island Waste Management Corporation, PEI Energy Corporation, Golflinks PEI, PEI Economic Development Agency and PEI Crown Building Corporation. He is also a past Chair of the federal-provincial-territorial Council of Deputy Ministers of Transportation.
Mr. MacLean and his wife Mary have two children and live in Stratford.