Gerald Doucet
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Gerald Doucet is a former politician from Nova Scotia, and also worked as a lobbyist.
He graduated from St. Francis Xavier University, where he met and became close friends with future prime minister Brian Mulroney, and went on to earn his law degree at Dalhousie University.
In the general election of 1963, he was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as a Progressive Conservative representing the provincial riding of Richmond. He was re-elected in 1967 and 1970.
He ran for leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia in the party's 1971 leadership convention, finishing second to John Buchanan.
He is the brother of Fred Doucet, who served as the first Chief of Staff to Brian Mulroney, after Mulroney became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1983. Fred Doucet is a longtime associate of Mulroney, and served on his staff in the Prime Minister's Office while Mulroney was Canadian Prime Minister from 1984-1993.
Starting in 1984, Gerald Doucet was a member of the successful but sometimes controversial Ottawa consulting firm Government Consultants International (GCI), along with Frank Moores, Francis Fox, and Gary Ouellet (The Insiders, by John Sawatsky, 1987; On The Take, by Stevie Cameron, 1994).
In 2004 he published his biography, "Acadian Footprints".
The Nova Scotia politician is not to be confused with Gerald Doucet, native of Vancouver, BC. Mr. Doucet obtained a BA from the University of Ottawa and an MA in economics from Carleton University. From 1967?81 he carried out various roles of an economic or policy nature with the Canadian government. In 1982 he became Senior Vice President of the Retail Council of Canada, a position he held for five years. From 1988?92, Mr Doucet was Agent General in Europe for the Province of Ontario, and from 1992?94 he was President and Founding Director Europe for the Europe-Canada Development Association. In 1994 he became President and CEO of the Canadian Gas Association, until taking up his present position as Secretary General of the World Energy Council in September 1998.
