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| birth_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland | birthname = | citizenship = | nationality = | party = | otherparty = | spouse = | partner = | relations = 5 brothers and 2 sisters: Ernie, Wayne. Marilyn, Des, Ivan, Shannon & David | children = | parents = Desmond Granville Patton and Janie Annette Patton (nee Reid) | residence = | alma_mater = University of Saskatchewan Utah State University | occupation = | profession = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} Elizabeth Violet Dowdeswell (née Patton, born November 9, 1944) is a teacher, public servant, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, and current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the 29th since Canadian Confederation. She is the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of Ontario. Dowdeswell was born in Northern Ireland, immigrating to rural Saskatchewan with her parents in 1947. She attended the University of Saskatchewan and Utah State University before becoming a teacher and university lecturer. After working as a deputy minister for the Government of Saskatchewan, she held increasingly senior positions in the Canadian public service, most notably as head of the Meteorological Service of Canada. In 1992, Dowdeswell was unanimously elected to lead the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya, serving there until 1998. From 1998 to 2010, she was an adjunct professor at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health at the University of Toronto, while also serving as founding president and CEO of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada). From 2010 until her appointment, she was the president and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies. Her appointment as Lieutenant Governor was made by Governor General of Canada David Lloyd Johnston on the Constitutional advice of Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper on June 26, 2014. She was sworn into office during a ceremony at the Ontario Legislative Building on September 23, 2014. As Lieutenant Governor, Dowdeswell is entitled to be styled Her Honour while in office and The Honourable for life. ==Early life== Dowdeswell (nee Patton) was born in Belfast Northern Ireland on November 9, 1944 and in 1947 moved with her family to Canada, settling in Saskatchewan.〔(Elizabeth Dowdeswell • Saskatchewan's Environmental Champions )〕 Her father Desmond Granville Patton (1920 - 2008) was a United Church of Canada minister. Dowedeswell married at a young age but soon divorced.〔 She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and Utah State University to become a high school teacher.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Dowdeswell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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