Maud Murray became the Deputy Minister of Red Tape Reduction in June 2022.

She previously served as the interim Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade (MEDJCT), from March 2022 to June 2022.

Prior to this appointment, she served as the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Office of Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Division at MEDJCT. In this role, Maud led the development of cross-cutting policies and strategies for regulatory innovation, compliance modernization and regulatory reform to reduce burdens on Ontario businesses. She also led partnerships with other ministries and levels of government to develop policies, strategies and solutions to support small and medium-sized businesses, and management of Ontario’s network of Small Business Enterprise Centres.

She began her public service career in 2005 as a summer law student, then articled and became counsel at the Ministry of the Attorney General’s Crown Law Office — Civil. Maud went on to become Legal Counsel in the Procurement Law Office and then Counsel at the Ontario Power Authority. She served as Deputy Legal Director for the ministries of Agriculture and Food, and of Rural Affairs. Maud was then Deputy Legal Director for the ministries of Government and Consumer Services, Citizenship and Immigration, and International Trade. She then became Legal Director for the ministries of Energy, Infrastructure, and MEDJCT, and for Small Business and Red Tape Reduction.

Maud is a proud Canadian and proud of her West African heritage, having immigrated from Ghana with her parents when she was 10 years old. She has an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Hispanic Studies from Trent University, a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from the University of Western Ontario and an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School.