(Biography from 2008) Keith Brewer was director general of the Department of Natural Resources, responsible for proposing policies covering mineral economics, investment and taxation.

Under his chairmanship, many federal-provincial reviews resulted in important measures, including provisions to make better use of flow-through shares for exploration and analysis of the Canadian mineral investment climate, which formed a basis for the Whitehorse Mining Initiative.

Internationally, he has participated in World Bank teams and United Nations seminars. He also chaired the Mining Working Groups of the Canada-Russia Intergovernmental Economic Commission, the Canada-Saudi Arabia Joint Economic Commission, and the Canada-China (National Development and Reform Commission) meetings.

He has served as chairman of the Advisory Council at the Centre for Resource Studies at Queen’s University.

Brewer has a degree in Physics from Oxford University, a MA from the University of Alberta and a PhD in economics from McGill University. He was an electronics engineer with Philips Electrical in Europe and an assistant professor teaching graduate and undergraduate economics at Queen’s University.