Kevin Deveaux
As a former parliamentarian, legal drafter and UN senior focal point, Kevin Deveaux has spent his professional career engaged with parliaments and their impact on the lives of citizens. A Barrister & Solicitor from Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada, Kevin Deveaux practiced law in Toronto and Halifax as a Crown Attorney, and later as a drafter of legislation. Kevin Deveaux was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1998 for the constituency of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage, and was re-elected in 1999, 2003, and 2006. During his time as an MP he was the Deputy Speaker for the House from 1999-2003 and the Official Opposition House Leader from 2003-2007.
Kevin Deveaux also worked internationally with the US-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) as a part-time parliamentary consultant working in Kosovo, Iraq, Egypt, Cambodia and Palestine. In 2007, Kevin Deveaux resigned his seat in the House of Assembly to work full-time as a Senior Parliamentary Technical Adviser with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The following year he was appointed to the post of Parliamentary Development Policy Adviser in New York with UNDP鈥檚 Democratic Governance Group; he was in charge of the Global Program for Parliamentary Support (GPPS) and provided support to more than 70 UNDP Country Offices in which there were parliamentary support programs. He was directly engaged in the development and implementation of major parliamentary programs in Pakistan, Cambodia, Tunisia, Libya, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Myanmar, and Iraq.
