Elizabeth Kingston had a career of 35 years with the Parliament of Canada as a Procedural Clerk and is now retired. She has held numerous positions including Clerk of the Standing Committees on Finance, Defence, Public Accounts, Aboriginal Affairs, Industry as well as the Special Joint Committee on the Meech Lake Accord. She has also served as Executive Secretary to the Canada – United States Inter-Parliamentary Group, the Canada-China and Canada-Japan Parliamentary Associations, the Canada-United Kingdom Parliamentary Association and the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

Elizabeth also served as Executive Secretary to the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP), which serves to strengthen the participation of women in politics, government and society.

Since retirement, Elizabeth has participated in numerous election observation missions, both as a long-term and a short-term observer. Such missions included the 2020 national and regional elections in Guyana with the Carter Center as a long-term observer and both a short term and long term observer for the presidential, parliamentary then local elections in Ukraine in 2019 and 2020.

Elizabeth holds a Master’s degree in French Canadian Literature and is presently working on a Master’s degree in Theology.