Michael Ferguson was appointed Auditor General of Canada

Auditor General of Canada

The role of the Auditor General of Canada is to aid accountability by conducting independent audits of federal government operations. The Auditor General reports to the House of Commons, not to the government...

, effective November 28, 2011. Previous to this post, he served as the deputy minister of finance and secretary to the board of management for the province of New Brunswick

New Brunswick

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Career

Ferguson obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick

University of New Brunswick

The University of New Brunswick is a Canadian university located in the province of New Brunswick. UNB is the oldest English language university in Canada and among the first public universities in North America. The university has two main campuses: the original campus founded in 1785 in...

. In 1985, he started work as an auditor in New Brunswick's comptroller's office. He became the provincial comptroller from 2000 to 2005. From 2005 to 2010, he was the province's auditor general.

From 2005 until 2010, Ferguson held various executive positions with the New Brunswick Institute of Chartered Accountants (NBICA).