Arthur Kroeger

Arthur Kroeger, CC (September 7, 1932 – May 9, 2008) was a Canadian academic and civil servant, who was referred to as the "dean of deputy ministers".

Born on a farm in Naco, Alberta (now a ghost town[1]), Kroeger was descended from Mennonites who emigrated from Russia.

In 1958, he joined the Department of External Affairs and served in Geneva, New Delhi, Washington, and Ottawa.

Carleton also named the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, the school for the university's undergraduate Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management program and Bachelor of Global and International Studies programme, in Kroeger's honour.

He is the author of Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada (University of Alberta Press, ISBN 0-88864-473-6), a non-fiction exploration of his Mennonite family's history, spanning three generations in Russian Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and finally in Canada.

Picture of Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs at the Loeb Building, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON