Background
He was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1947 to Commodore F. Dudley Elcock and Mary Grace Pitfield and is the oldest of four children (Hew, Julia and Mark (deceased)).
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
He was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1947 to Commodore F. Dudley Elcock and Mary Grace Pitfield and is the oldest of four children (Hew, Julia and Mark (deceased)).
Carleton University.
He served as the Deputy Minister of National Defence from August 5, 2004 to October 1, 2007. He is the grandson of deceased Canadian financier Ward C. Pitfield and Grace Pitfield (née MacDougall). He is the nephew of former Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada, the recently retired Senator Michael Pitfield, and retired financier Ward C. Pitfield, Junior.
A Bachelor"s graduate in Political Science from Carleton University, Elcock received his Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School.
Elcock served as the Security & Intelligence Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council Office for five years, and as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet (Legislation and House Planning/Counsel) for six years, prior to his rise to Center for Strategic and International Studies and National Defence. In 2007, Elcock was named Senior Advisor to the Privy Council Office "pending his next assignment".
In 2010, he was the chief of the Integrated Security Units organized for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the 36th G8 summit in Huntsville, and the 4th G-20 summit in Toronto. He is currently a special advisor and envoy on combating human smuggling.
