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Pat Atkinson
Canadian politician
Patricia "Pat" Atkinson (born September 27, 1952)[1] is a Canadian provincial politician. She was a Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1986 to 2011, and is currently the longest-serving female MLA in Saskatchewan's history.[2]
She was born in Biggar, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Roy Atkinson, and received degrees in arts and education from the University of Saskatchewan. She worked as a teacher therapist and school principal for the Radius Community School in Saskatoon. Atkinson also served on the board of the Saskatoon Community Clinic.[1]
She ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Saskatchewan assembly in 1982.[1] Atkinson was first elected in 1986, while the NDP was still in opposition. When the party was elected to government in the 1991 provincial election, she held a number of major cabinet positions, including minister of social services, health, education, Crown corporations, and finance. She was a supporter of Lorne Calvert and helped
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Patricia has deep experience in the philanthropic and global development sectors. For more than 20 years, Patricia has served in increasingly responsible leadership roles in large philanthropies and health and social impact organizations.
She has held senior roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the IKEA Foundation, where she led its €200M annual grantmaking program. She has held senior roles at several leading global health non-profit organizations, including PATH, where she led commercialization activities for the development of malaria vaccines. She served on the executive team at Marie Stopes International and led the technical division that served nearly 40 country programs.
Patricia's sector experience includes global health (reproductive health and infectious diseases), climate (mitigation and adaptation), economic livelihoods, social entrepreneurship, renewable energy, and humanitarian and refugee livelihoods. Patricia has a successful track record building strategic philanthropic initiatives, including unique experience working at the convergen
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