Pamela Ann McDougall

Pamela Ann McDougall (9 May 1925 – 4 October 2015) was a Canadian diplomat.

McDougall attended Glebe Collegiate in Ottawa and went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Mount Allison University and a graduate degree from the University of Toronto. McDougall elected not to pursue a career in chemistry, accepting, instead, a position as a grade 3 clerk in the Department of External Affairs. Her tenure in Warsaw coincided with a number of crises in the Middle East, including the Six Day War and crises in the Eastern Bloc, including the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1979 she was appointed deputy minister the Department of National Health and Welfare by Prime Minister Joe Clark. Trudeau specifically directed McDougall to consider "the aspirations of women in Canadian society". In writing her report, McDougall traveled around the world and interviewed sixty percent of the Canadian foreign service and their spouses.

After presenting her report in 1981, McDougall retired from public service. She served for some years on the boards of Carleton University and the Royal Ottawa Hospital. In 1987, she married Paul Mayer, a retired Lieutenant Colonel whom she had met in Vietnam three decades earlier.