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Alex currently serves as Global Lead, Government Azure Strategy at Microsoft, where he helps governments around the world adopt cloud technologies. Prior to this, he was a partner with KPMG, where he led the national digital transformation practice.

In 2017–2019, Alex was a Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Chief Information Officer of Canada, and before that the President and CEO of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation. From 2009 to 2014, Alex was a Vice President at OpenText, Canada's largest software company.

In 2018, Alex was named to Apolitical's international list of the one hundred most influential people in digital government. He serves on the board of the World Wide Web Foundation and is cofounder of CIO Strategy Council of Canada.

He is also the author of books Canadian Failures, an anthology of essays from prominent Canadians openly talking about failure, and Government Digital, an in-depth look at how modern governments are tackling digital change.

With Alex, we just hit right off somehow. He became one of the closest friends in the international digital government gang. We both are straight-talking, too-much-talking, and fast-talking; both appreciate deadpan and satire.

We both are eager to not just kick the can down the road in our work but take on the machinery of government as widely and deeply (and in case of Alex as loudly) as we can.

Alex is very impatient; that is why doing the GCIO gig must have been hard. But he came to the role with experience and wits to employ this impatience as a strength. Although he may not have managed to turn the Government of Canada fully around (it is huge, too!) in his short term, his bold attempts and bold ideas led to quite a few lasting changes in how digital is done there.

We copied quite a bit off from each other on what works—to me, the Canadian architecture governance mechanisms is world class, for example. He was taken to Estonian digital ways to the extent that he has covered our practices in his talks on so many occasions that it would be hard for me to even attempt to match it. Sorry about that, eh.

—SIIM