Maureen Boyd was a member of the Parliamentary Centre’s Board of Directors from 2013 to 2023, serving as Chair from 2018 to 2023.

As Founding Director of the Carleton Initiative for Parliamentary and Diplomatic Engagement, she provided outreach and policy orientation to parliamentarians and diplomats for Carleton University where she is a Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. In addition to the orientation provided to newly-elected Members of Parliament following the 2011, 2015 and 2019 elections, she provided an annual orientation to newly-arrived foreign diplomats to Canada and organized more than 35 policy events for both communities. This programming now continues with EngageParlDiplo through the Parliamentary Centre in partnership with Carleton University.

Having lived in Vancouver, New York, Hong Kong, Ottawa, Los Angeles and Washington, Maureen has worked in politics, the media, at Rideau Hall and in government, including as a senior political staffer, national political and current affairs reporter and host for television news, communications advisor and public policy analyst.

She is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. She is a member of Politics and the Pen and of the International Women’s Forum. As chair of the national nonprofit organization HIPPY Canada, she led its transition to the Mothers Matter Centre and is now its founding and past chair. She has a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in New York and an Honours B.A. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia. Maureen is a member of the Order of Canada and is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal.