Doug Rowland

Who is Doug Rowland?

Douglas Charles Rowland, is a former Canadian politician.

Rowland has had extensive experience on Boards in the not-for-profit sector as well as on management committees in government and the private sector. He was, for five years, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians, now Immediate Past Chair and a member of the Editorial Board of the CAFP. Rowland is President Emeritus of the International Election Monitors Institute formed jointly by the CAFP, the United States Association of Former Members of Congress and the Former Members Association of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Parliamentary Centre. He is also a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario and the first Canadian member of the International Solidarity Committee of the Washington-based Freedom House. He is President of the Friends of the Canadian War Museum.

He was for nine years a member of the Board of Trustees of The Salvation Army Ottawa Grace Hospital and for six of those years, Chair. He was a member of the Founding Board of the New Ottawa Hospital.