business reporter for the Vancouver Sun, an analyst for Odlum Brown and at brokerage firm A.E. Ames, where she became the company's first female vice president. From October 2004 to March 2010 McDougall served on the Board of Directors of Imperial Tobacco Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of British American Tobacco. In that capacity she chaired the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of Imperial Tobacco Canada. Controversial position at IDRC In December 2007 McDougall was appointed Chair of the board of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett criticized her appointment as Chair of IDRC because of the conflict of interest it created between her role as director of a tobacco company and chair of an agency funding tobacco control efforts. The press release announcing her appointment did not mention her ongoing directorship of Imperial Tobacco. It is also omitted this from her bio on the IDRC website. As a result of this serious conflict of interest, a major tobacco control coordination meeting in Africa funded by IDRC was boycotted by its participants and the Gates Foundation pulled US$5 million of tobacco control funding from IDRC in April 2010. Archives There is a Barbara McDougall fonds at Library and Archives Canada. References External links Aird & Berlis LLP Web Biography 1937 births Living people 20th-century Canadian women politicians Canadian people of Scottish descent Canadian Secretaries of State for External Affairs Canadian women diplomats Female foreign ministers Members of the 24th Canadian Ministry Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Members of the Inter-American Dialogue Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Officers of the Order of Canada Politicians from Toronto Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs University of Toronto alumni Women government ministers of Canada Women in Ontario politics Women members of the House of Commons of Canada