Lesley Soper

Lesley Soper

Director General, National Security Policy, Public Safety Canada

Lesley Soper is the Director-General of the National Security Policy directorate in Public Safety responsible for community-wide policy development on a wide range of national security issues, including transparency and review, research security, lawful access and tools to counter violent extremism. She joined Public Safety in 2018 after coordinating the office of the Independent Review of the Immigration and Refugee Board. She has spent her career working in the area of security and intelligence policy, border law enforcement and migration at the Canada Border Services Agency (2012-2017); Privy Council Office (2010-2012) and at Immigration Refugees and Citizenship (1997-2010).