Acting Secretary-General
International Organization for Standardization
Kevin was Deputy Secretary-General from 2003 until taking up the post of Acting Secretary-General in August 2015.
Prior to this he was Director at the Standards Council of Canada, a Crown Corporation responsible for Canada’s National Standards System. Kevin has also held senior posts at the Canadian Standards Association, Canada’s largest standards development organization and was involved in national standardization issues in business management and worker safety.
Kevin began his career in the oil and gas industry at Esso Petroleum Canada, serving as a Construction Project Engineer and later as the Contact Engineer supporting Esso’s environmental operations at Sarnia Refinery in Ontario, Canada.
Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science in 1985 from the University of Ottawa and a Mechanical Engineering degree from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.