Ambassador Mark Entwistle is currently Managing Partner of Privus Capital Inc., a strategic advisory and business development firm, as well as Canadian lead in joint collaborations with German partners to help create opportunity from free trade and investment between the European Union and Canada and Mexican partners to help diversify and strengthen the Canada-Mexico business relationship. He is also Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Entwistle was previously a Founding Partner of merchant bank Acasta Capital Inc. and Special Advisor to New York-based Teneo Strategy LLC. He has served as a director of both public and private companies.
Entwistle served from 1981 to 1997 as a professional Canadian diplomat. His Foreign Service career included assignments at the Canadian Embassies in Tel Aviv and Moscow, where he was responsible for bilateral relations between Canada and the then USSR. He was Ambassador of Canada to Cuba from 1993 to 1997.
Entwistle was Press Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, directly responsible for all aspects of the Prime Minister’s relations with the media and the public communication of the policies of the Canadian federal government across the full range of government departments and agencies. He was senior ministerial aide for Parliamentary Affairs to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Right Honourable Joe Clark, where he managed the relations between the Minister and all institutions of Parliament.
Entwistle has written and spoken frequently on international affairs and the subject of Cuba as a recognized expert. He holds a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Ottawa and a M.A. in history from the University of Toronto, where he was also a Junior Fellow at Massey College.