Colleen D’Iorio
Executive Director, Security, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Ms. D’Iorio has a rich background in science and technology. She began her career in 1986 at the Johnson Space Centre, where her time was spent in the Mission Control Centre as a flight controller specializing in multi-body trajectory analysis and rendezvous flight dynamics. In 1993, she moved to the Canadian Space Agency where she was responsible for the development and implementation of their manned space flight control centre and integration of civilian and military space programs at DND. Ms. D’Iorio moved to the Communications Security Establishment of Canada (CSEC) in 2004, where she held the positions of Director General Access, responsible for overseeing the development and operation of signals intelligence technologies and Director General Cyber Protection, responsible for securing cryptologic and other communications technologies. She joined the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s (TBS’s) Chief Information Officer Branch in April 2011 as the Executive Director of Government Security. Colleen received her Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida and completed graduate studies in Theoretical Physics from Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, the Netherlands and the University of Houston.
Ms. D’Iorio has a rich background in science and technology. She began her career in 1986 at the Johnson Space Centre, where her time was spent in the Mission Control Centre as a flight controller specializing in multi-body trajectory analysis and rendezvous flight dynamics. In 1993, she moved to the Canadian Space Agency where she was responsible for the development and implementation of their manned space flight control centre and integration of civilian and military space programs at DND. Ms. D’Iorio moved to the Communications Security Establishment of Canada (CSEC) in 2004, where she held the positions of Director General Access, responsible for overseeing the development and operation of signals intelligence technologies and Director General Cyber Protection, responsible for securing cryptologic and other communications technologies. She joined the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s (TBS’s) Chief Information Officer Branch in April 2011 as the Executive Director of Government Security. Colleen received her Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida and completed graduate studies in Theoretical Physics from Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, the Netherlands and the University of Houston.
