[2] Wallace is a recipient of the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal, and he was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2018 New Year Honours.
His early work as a teacher, volunteer, diplomat and aid worker concentrated mainly on Africa and Central America.
Wallace spent many years with the Canadian International Development Agency, where he managed several reconstruction programs and served as the Vice-President of the Afghanistan Task Force.
As a senior public servant, Wallace served as Assistant Secretary of Government Operations at the Treasury Board Secretariat, and most recently as Associate Deputy Minister for the Department of Canadian Heritage prior to his appointment as Secretary to the Governor General.
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