Dwight N. Mason

Dwight N. Mason is a graduate of Brown University and the University of California at Berkeley. After serving as deputy ambassador to Canada, Mr. Mason retired from the U.S. Foreign Service. From 1991 until 2002, he was a non-attorney member of the Washington law firm of Storch and Brenner (later Dilworth Paxson, where he was a consultant). In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed him to be chairman of the U.S. Section of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, Canada–United States. He served until July 2002. He is now a nonresident senior associate with the CSIS Americas Program. Mr. Mason was a Foreign Service officer from 1962 until 1991. He served in Morocco, Colombia, Ecuador, at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, at the U.S. Department of State, and at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, first as counselor for political affairs and then as deputy ambassador.

Mr. Mason is a member of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, the Canadian International Council, and the Advisory Council of the Network on North American Studies of the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program. He has been an American Political Science Association congressional fellow and a mid-career fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations at Princeton University.

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