Doug 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.
18 Facts About Doug Rowland
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Doug Rowland is a former member of the board of directors of the Parliamentary Centre and a past 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.
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Doug Rowland is the former president of the Friends of the Canadian War Museum.
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For nine years, Doug Rowland was a member of the board of trustees of The Salvation Army Ottawa Grace Hospital and, for six of those years, chair.
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Doug Rowland was a member of the founding board of the New Ottawa Hospital.
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Doug Rowland is a past chair of The Salvation Army Advisory Board for Ottawa.
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Doug Rowland chaired The Salvation Army Capital Campaign task group of Ottawa and was a member of The Salvation Army Territorial Advisory Board.
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Doug Rowland served as a member of the Ottawa committee for the Canadian War Museum Passing the Torch campaign.
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Doug Rowland serves on the board of directors of the Canadian Shield Foundation and is a volunteer van driver for Unitarian House Retirement Home.
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Doug Rowland was a federal member of Parliament in the early 1970s.
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Doug Rowland played a leading organizational role in the NDP victory in Manitoba in 1969 following which he became Special Assistant to the Premier, Ed Schreyer, and Associate Secretary to the Cabinet.
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Doug Rowland moved from the government to hold senior positions in a Crown Corporation and in an international marketing services firm.
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Doug Rowland has been active in governance and democracy work internationally.
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Doug Rowland has had assignments in Morocco, where he developed a domestic election monitoring organization, in Mexico, in the former Yugoslavia, and in Indonesia.
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In January 2006, Doug Rowland headed the six-person International Mission for Iraqi Elections' Assessment Team sent to Baghdad to analyze the December 2005 Iraqi election results.
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Doug Rowland was an election observer in Kazakhstan with the OSCE in 2011.
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Doug Rowland holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St John's College, University of Manitoba, a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Manitoba, and received a "distinction" for his doctoral studies in Canadian government and international relations at McGill University.
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Doug Rowland served in the Royal Canadian Navy receiving several awards as a naval cadet.