Speaker Bios

Keith is a partner at Deloitte LLP, Chairman of BuildAfrica and a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust.

He serves clients in the government and corporate sectors on issues covering organisation design, top team and Board performance and front line performance improvement. He acts as counsellor on major change programmes to chief executives and top management in FTSE – 50 companies and public sector entities. He leads Deloitte’s organisation practice and has written many articles on organization and leadership topics in journals such as Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Times, European Management Journal, McKinsey Quarterly, Corporate Finance, Power Economics, The Tablet, Guardian Public. His most recent publications are on the future of the UK Public Sector, In the hot seat and Leadership at all levels.

Keith has a substantial personal commitment to the Third Sector as a non-executive Director of The Tablet Publishing Company and as Chairman of BuildAfrica. BuildAfrica supports 62 schools in rural Kenya and Uganda by constructing buildings, training teachers and school management and engaging parents.

Prior to joining Deloitte in 2006, Keith was a partner at McKinsey and led their leadership development programme. He began his career at Shell where he held a series of marketing and general management roles in New Zealand, Sweden, Cyprus and the UK.

Keith holds a LL.B with first class honours from the University of Edinburgh and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

His projects include work with:
•     National College of Leadership for Schools and Children’s Services
•     Ministry of Defence board effectiveness
•     Department for Communities and Local Government business model
•     Nuclear Decommissioning Authority organisation effectiveness
•     Equalities and Human Rights Commission board effectiveness
•     Department of Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs organisation effectiveness
•     HM Revenue & Customs operational effectiveness

A certified coach and accredited business communicator, Eileen Chadnick is principal of Big Cheese Coaching and specializes in emotional intelligence coaching for leaders of all levels. Through coaching, workshops, consulting and communications, Eileen helps inspire TGIM (Thank goodness it’s Monday) attitudes, aptitudes and altitudes for leaders and organizations from a variety of sectors. She focuses on: leadership development, employee engagement, corporate culture, communications, career management, and work-life engagement.

Eileen completed coach certification at the Adler International Learning school and is an Adler Certified Professional Coach (ACPC). She is also PCC credentialed by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as well as certified to provide emotional intelligence assessments (both individually and on a 360 basis — EQi and EQ360 respectively). Additionally, Eileen is a retirement certified coach through Retirement Options.

An active member of ICF, Eileen has served as a Director of the Board for the GTA ICF Chapter in 2005/2006 and is still active in the ICF community.

Eileen is a recipient of the International Coach Federation 2007 Prism Award — recognizing excellence in leadership and performance coaching for her work with Tribute Communities.

In addition to coaching, Eileen is an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC), recognized by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). She brings more than 20 years of varied business experience as a professional communicator.

Eileen established Big Cheese Coaching in 2003 and has also successfully operated her own communications consulting firm, Chadnick Communications, since 1998.

Prior to establishing her own company in 1998, Eileen held various senior-level communications roles with two of Canada’s leading PR agencies (Hill and Knowlton and Environics Communications), a Canadian bank and a financial servies payments association (Mondex Canada). As a professional business communicator, Eileen’s track record of success includes achievements within strategic communications planning, public and media relations, internal communications, writing and spokesperson media skills training. Over the years she has served an impressive roster of clients (blue chip and other) in financial services, business and consumer products, education and other sectors. She has received awards of excellence for her writing and media relations work from the International Association of Business Communicators.

Eileen’s coaching expertise has been profiled in various media including: Globe and Mail, Canadian Business Magazine, Toronto Star, Advisor’s Edge Magazine, Canadian HR Reporter, Choice Magazine, Investment Executive, CBC Radio and Television, Rogers Television, Metro News and others.

Christine Power began her health-care career as a frontline nurse. In the 30 years since, she has served in leadership roles in Halifax and at Trillium Health Centre in Ontario, always maintaining the passion and compassion that led her to health care.

In 2006, Ms. Power became President and CEO of Capital District Health Authority in Halifax. She is a member of the board of the Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations, the steering committee of Canadian Stroke Strategies, and the National Task Force for Academic Health Sciences Centres.

Ms. Power holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Mount Saint Vincent University and a Master’s degree in Health Services Administration from Dalhousie University. She is also a certified health executive with the Canadian College of Health Service Executives, and holds a Fellowship in Management for executive nurses from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

In 2003, she received the Award for Excellence and Innovation from the Canadian College of Health Services Executives, and in 2007, she received an Award of Excellence from the Halifax Progress Club. In 2007 and 2008, she was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in the public sector.

Barry Pervin is Assistant Deputy Minister, Instruction and Leadership Development Division, Ministry of Education. He is responsible for policy and program development in areas such as teacher development, leadership development, safe and healthy schools, equity and inclusive education, and school board governance and labour relations.

During his years with the Ontario Public Service, he has held positions in four different ministries including: labour; skills development; training, colleges and universities; and education. Barry has played a leadership role in the Ministry of Education since 2001.

Barry has an MA in Public Administration from Carleton University and an Honours BA in Sociology and Education from Concordia University in Montreal.

Lynn Eakin has a MSW from the University of Toronto. Lynn has an in depth understanding of financial issues in the non profit sector. She has been providing consulting services to the not-for- profit sector since 1989 following a career of over twenty years in senior management in a social service organization.

Lynn has researched, written and lectured widely on key issues affecting social service organizations particularly in the areas of non-profit finance and restructuring.

Michael Shapcott is Director, Affordable Housing and Social Innovation at the Wellesley Institute, an independent, non-profit research and policy dedicated to advancing urban health. Michael has worked extensively in Toronto, in many parts of Canada, nationally and internationally on social innovation, the non-profit sector, civic engagement, housing and housing rights, poverty, social exclusion, urban health and health equity.

He is recognized as one of Canada’s leading community-based housing and homelessness experts. He leads the Wellesley Institute’s housing and homelessness practice and co-leads the Wellesley Institute’s social innovation practice.

Michael has a long record of public service, including appointments to the Downtown Community Advisory Board of the Toronto Board of Health, the Corporate Minimum Tax Working Group of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission, the Inner City Advisory Committee of the Toronto District School Board, the National Advisory Committee to the World Urban Forum II, the National Reference Group to the Mental Health and Housing Pilot Project, the Toronto Waterfront Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto’s Charitable Foundation, the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives at the University of Toronto and the Minister’s Advisory Committee of the Partnership Project (for Ontario’s non-profit sector). He developed 525 units of supportive housing as manager of the innovative Rupert pilot project, and has served as President of the Toronto Environmental Alliance. Michael has worked on housing rights issues with the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. He is a founding member of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network. He is co-chair of Canada’s National Housing and Homelessness Network and is regularly invited as a witness at committees of the federal, provincial and municipal governments. He is active internationally with the Habitat International Coalition and has worked with community partners on housing issues in Beijing, Istanbul and Nairobi, as well as numerous Canadian and US cities.

In 2005, Michael led the Wellesley Institute’s Blueprint to End Homelessness in Toronto initiative, which, in turn, prompted the City of Toronto to prepare its official ten-year housing strategy. Michael has worked with community and municipal officials in a dozen Canadian cities to develop local housing plans. He has worked with Aboriginal housing and service providers nationally and in a number of communities to develop practical and effective strategies for Aboriginal housing under Aboriginal control. He is a founding member of the Housing Network of Ontario, and led the Wellesley Institute’s national housing initiative aimed at those who are precariously housed.

Michael has been active with faith communities and is a founding partner of Toronto’s Multi-Faith Alliance to End Homelessness, along with other social justice initiatives among a variety of faith communities. Michael is co-author, with Jack Layton, of Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis (Penguin, 2008) and co-editor, with David Hulchanski, of Finding Room: Policy Options for a Canadian Rental Housing Strategy (CUCS Press, 2004). He has written numerous articles, papers and chapters in a variety of books and journals.

Before joining the Wellesley Institute, Michael worked at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Urban and Community Studies, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, the Toronto Christian Resource Centre and he spent ten years as a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist. Michael attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto and the Faculty of General Studies at the University of Calgary. He has completed economic studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2008, he was invited by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to be part of a workshop with two dozen participants from around the world at the University of Siena.

Brings10 years of consulting and research experience in work place dynamics including transformational change, personal and leadership development and team dynamics in delivering human capital solutions.

Background working in healthcare, public sector and for-profit organizations
Experience includes facilitating strategic change, organizational assessments as well as individual assessments, action planning and coaching to support development

Karen Pastakia leads the Talent Management service area in Deloitte's Human Capital Consulting team. She works with public and private sector organizations that are undertaking complex strategic change. Karen has particular experience in the areas of talent management, organizational effectiveness and change leadership both within the UK and Canada. Specifically, working with senior leadership teams, Karen has broad experience developing and implementing leadership and team development programs.

Vince Molinaro is a Managing Director with Knightsbridge Leadership Solutions in Toronto.

Vince is responsible for leading the national leadership consulting practice within Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions. He works with senior executives and boards to create and implement strategies to build strong leadership capacity needed for successful strategy execution.

Vince has worked with organizations in a variety of sectors —including energy, pharmaceutical, professional services, technology, financial services, and public sector.

He is called upon by the media for his innovative opinions on leadership. An engaging speaker, Vince conducts keynote presentations within corporations, international conferences and business schools. Vince has also published extensively in journals and business magazines. He is the author of two books. Leadership Solutions(co-authored, Jossey-Bass, 2007) and The Leadership Gap (co-authored, Wiley 2005).

Vince received his Doctorate from the University of Toronto and has degrees from Brock University and McMaster University.

Mary Karamanos joined BDC in 2002. She is responsible for developing and implementing BDC's human resources strategy. She is active in the community and supports a number of children's charities.

Ms. Karamanos has more than 20 years experience in strategic human resources and has held senior positions at Corby Distilleries in Canada and Allied Domecq Spirits and Wine U.S.A., Inc.

She holds a BA in Industrial Relations from McGill University and the Certified Compensation Professional designation from World at Work.

Elinor is a systems thinker and change agent. She provokes thinking with probing questions that enable and help people to think strategically. Her passions include the implementation of strategies to improve the delivery of safe, quality services in the Health and Social Services sector as well as coaching to support excellence in governance.

Elinor's political career began as an elected Municipal Alderman in North York from 1978-1985.As a Provincial MPP (1985-97), she served in the Peterson Government as Minister of Government Services, Chair of Management Board and Chair of the Cabinet. Elinor Caplan is best known as Ontario's Health Minister (1987-1990).

Elected as Federal MP for Thornhill (1997-2004), Elinor served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health before joining the Chrétien Cabinet in 1999 as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. In 2001 she was named Minister of National Revenue where she had responsibility for Revenue Canada as well as Canada Customs. While in Federal Cabinet (1999-2003) Elinor served on the Public Security and Anti-Terrorism committee, the Social Union committee, the Reference Group of Ministers on Health, as well as the Reference Group of Ministers on the Voluntary Sector.

In 2005 Elinor completed a review of Ontario Home Care Procurement Policy and Practices. The 'Caplan Report' (Competing for Excellence by Rewarding Results) recommendations have been accepted by government and are being implemented.From 2005-2007 Elinor was the Governance, Program and Financial Lead on the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care project to create independent governance for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women's College Hospital.

In 2008 Elinor co-authored the paper "Can Local Governance Survive?" and was a presenter at the Institute of Public Administration Canada (IPAC) conference on that topic.

Barry Monaghan is an experienced health care executive with extensive experience in hospital, government, LHIN and community sectors. Barry has just completed his term as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, a two site $72 million acute care hospital in Bracebridge and Huntsville Ontario. Prior to this appointment, Barry held the position of Interim Chief Executive Officer Georgian Bay Hospital and Interim Leader LHIN Collaborative. Barry was the inaugural CEO of the Toronto Central LHIN (2005 - 2007). Prior to this, he held the position of President and CEO West Park Healthcare Centre. While at Westpark, Barry was Chair of the Paediatric Cardiac Care Network of Ontario and Co-Chair, Ministry of Health and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Joint Stroke Implementation Committee.

Dr. Rick Miner, Seneca’s President Emeritus, served as Seneca President from August 2001 to July 2009, at which time he retired from that position.

Prior to joining Seneca, he was Vice-President, University of New Brunswick for seven years. Before his term at UNB, he was at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia where he served as Director of the Canada/China Language and Cultural Program from 1989 to 1993, Dean of Commerce from 1982 to 1987, and MBA Director from 1978 to 1981. Dr. Miner has also held faculty positions with the University of New Brunswick, the University of Toronto and Saint Mary’s University.

Dr. Miner holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Gettysburg College, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Utah and a Doctorate in Management from the University of Minnesota.

He has written books and papers on the subjects of management and organizational behaviour, and has spoken extensively in Canada and abroad on these and related topics.
Amongst the awards he has received are the President’s Award, Saint John Board of Trade, a CIDA Professional Award, MBA Professor of the Year (Saint Mary’s University) and various community and student recognitions.

Dr. Miner is Past Chair of the Committee of Presidents of Ontario Colleges. He has served on the boards of Ontario Innovation Trust, Polytechnics Canada, the Toronto Regional Research Alliance, The Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance, RC-2020 (an association of large urban colleges, where he has been appointed as an emeritus member) and Seneca Corporation. He is a member of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Millennium Scholarship Foundation. He was also actively involved with the Toronto Financial Services Alliance and the Transportation Advisory Committee of Metrolinx (formerly the Greater Toronto Transit Authority).

Dr. Miner works closely with various federal government departments on issues that impact on immigration, the skills shortage, innovation and commercialization.

In 2007, New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham appointed Dr. Miner as commissioner of the province’s Commission on Post-Secondary Education. The Commission reviewed the entirety of the province’s post-secondary system, including public and private universities and colleges. The report (Advantage New Brunswick) was delivered to the Premier in September 2007, and the government acted on its recommendations in 2008. In July 2008, Dr. Miner was appointed by Federal and Provincial Labour Ministers to serve on a five person panel to recommend improvements to Canada’s Labour Market Information System. The panel report was completed in June 2009. Dr. Miner is now working as an independent consultant, examining issues relating to the labour force and post-secondary education.

Patrice Dutil is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, at Ryerson University. Before joining the department in August 2006, he was the Acting Executive Director and Director of Research at the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC).

In addition to a PhD from York University, Patrice Dutil received a BA (Hon.) from York University, an M es Arts from the Université de Montréal. He started his career in the Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs in 1987 as a policy advisor, and then joined TVOntario where he worked in corporate policy and then in programming. He became Director of Research at IPAC in 1999. In 1991, he founded and edited for five years the monthly Literary Review of Canada. He is the President of the Champlain Society and is the director of the "Parliament-to-Campus" program of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians.

Patrice Dutil’s main research interests are political and public sector leadership, institutionalism and the policy development process. Dutil is a frequent commentator on public affairs on radio and television, and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Winnipeg Free Press and La Presse. Dutil sits on the editorial committee of the International Review of Administrative Sciences and is the Editor of the IPAC Series in Public Administration and Governance published with the University of Toronto Press and of the Collection Administration et gouvernance published with the Presses de l'Université du Québec.

As Executive Vice-President, Western and International Development, HB Global Advisors Corp., Jessica McDonald advises on sensitive negotiation of business transactions, multilateral negotiations, relationships between the business and aboriginal communities, and dispute resolution. She also has extensive experience in public sector governance, administrative reform and land use planning. HB Global’s client base includes local, national and multinational businesses as well as foreign governments, governmental organizations, and economic and trade bodies.

Previously, Ms. McDonald served for four and a half years as Deputy Minister to the Premier, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the BC Public Service, responsible for oversight of all aspects of government operations. As the first woman to hold the most senior position in the public service, she acted as a CEO-equivalent to the largest employer in the province with 36,000 employees in over 200 distinct fields of occupation and a $37B annual budget.

As head of the public service, Ms. McDonald initiated a bold human resources renewal program, achieving a ten point increase in employee engagement along with its first-ever recognition as one of BC’s Top 50 Employers, Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Top 25 Family Friendly Employers, and Canada’s 30 Greenest Employers.

She has been recognized nationally for her leadership in innovation and employee engagement, including the IPAC/Deloitte National Gold Award for Public Sector Leadership. She has been named amongst Canada’s Top 40 Under 40™ and Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women™, and was appointed to Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame™.

Ms. McDonald obtained a Bachelor of Arts focusing on constitutional law and public administration from the University of British Columbia. She was selected for BC’s prestigious Legislative Internship Program upon graduating, leading to a career spanning two decades in public sector management. From 1991 onwards, she worked in a progression of policy analysis and management positions in the provincial government, and subsequently founded and operated a successful consultancy specializing in natural resource and land management. She re-entered government in 2003 as a Deputy Minister to oversee government-wide strategic policy development relating to the environment and the economy.

She is Board Director and Chair of International Programs at the Institute of Public Administration of Canada and is a regular speaker and panelist on leadership.

Ms. McDonald joined HB Global Advisors Corp., Heenan Blaikie’s consulting arm, in January 2010.

Paul LaFleche is an experienced senior executive and strategic advisor in government, academia and economic development. He has had a varied career in the private and public sectors.

Starting in the natural resources field as an exploration geoscientist, his focus was to connect applied research to economic development through the use of innovative exploration technologies. He practiced as a geoscientist in the university, government and private sectors as a professor, research scientist and consultant.


Interested in furthering the development of technological applications to Canada's economic challenges, Paul entered the field of public administration to focus on bridging the academic/business gap that he had experienced in the university and private sector research laboratory domains.

In the mid 1990s, Paul took a position as a public education administrator as principal of one of Canada's premier geomatics institutes, Nova Scotia’s College of Geographic Sciences (COGS). In 1996 he also accepted the position of the Chair of the Management Board of the Cornwallis Park Development Agency, the agency charged with redeveloping the Canadian Forces Base Cornwallis. He held that position for over a decade, guiding the Agency to self-sufficiency, while assisting in the addition of over 100 jobs to the local economy through development and corporate recruitment activities.

Interested in levering the work of COGS faculty into the research field, Paul led the Nova Scotia Community College into applied research, establishing the Applied Geomatics Research Group. In 1998, Paul was named principal of the Nova Scotia Community College’s Virtual Campus, with a mandate to develop internet-based college programming. In 1999, Paul became the first Vice President, Academic, of the Nova Scotia Community College.

Following a secondment to the Province of Nova Scotia's Treasury & Policy Board in 2002, Paul was appointed Secretary to the Nova Scotia Executive Council (Cabinet). In the Spring of 2004, he assumed the additional role of Clerk of the Executive Council with responsibility for the supervising the Government's legal role in exercising the authority of the Crown.

On February 16, 2007 Paul was appointed Deputy Minister for the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Paul currently serves as Past President of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Nova Scotia and is a licensed vocational education teacher with a Diploma in Adult Education from the Nova Scotia Community College. He holds Masters and Doctorate degrees from McGill University, a Bachelors of Science from Loyola College, Concordia University and a Masters in Public Administration from Carleton University.

Peter Milley is the Research Director for the New Synthesis Project (ns6newsynthesis.com), an international research initiative aimed at shaping the future of public governance. Peter is also a Senior Advisor at the Canada School of Public Service in Ottawa, where he conducts research on public governance, policy, administration and leadership development and provides advice in these areas to senior public officials in Canada and abroad.

Peter completed his PhD in Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria in 2005. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications, the most recent of which are “The New Frontiers of Public Administration” (Public Governance International, 2010) and “Towards a critical theory of emotions in educational leadership and administration” (in E. Samier and M. Schmidt, eds., Emotional Dimensions of Educational Administration and Leadership, Routledge, 2009).

Andrew Graham teaches in both the graduate and professional development programs at Queens and elsewhere. He also has writes extensively, now writing a regular column on management issues, Briefly Noted for the Public Management, a periodical of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. He is also Series Editor of IPAC’s Case Study program.

Mr. Graham has taken a special interest in emerging management issues, including strategic planning, modern police governance, performance measurement and integrated risk management. He is associated with the Building Democracy in Ukraine Project of Queens University. He is also a member of the advisory committee of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queens University. He is Project Lead for Queen’s partnership in the Canada-Brazil Technical CO-operation Project.

An Assistant Deputy Minister for 14 years in the federal government with over 30 years of service, he has experience in line operations (Warden, Kingston Penitentiary), leading a complex regional operations, and a number of policy and corporate leadership roles, including Senior Deputy Commission of the Correctional Service of Canada. He has extensive corporate management experience, including having served as the ADM, Corporate Services of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. He took part in an executive interchange to the Conference Board of Canada for two years.

Nancy Brown Andison leads IBM’s Global Business Services for the Public Sector in the Province of Ontario. This includes IBM’s services to: provincial, regional and municipal governments, agencies, boards, commissions, education, healthcare, transportation and not for profit organizations. In this role Nancy has led some of the largest and most successful consulting, system implementation and business operation programs in the public sector in Canada in areas ranging from: business strategy, economics and policy, financial management, human capital management, customer relationship management and information technology.

Prior to joining IBM as part of IBM’s purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting in 2002, Nancy was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Guelph and an MBA from Queen’s University.

Nancy is a board member of the Ontario 4-H Foundation and is Treasurer of Farm Radio International, a charitable organization which uses radio to provide education to rural families in Africa.

Kevin G. Lynch is Vice-Chair, BMO Financial Group. In this role, Mr. Lynch is a key strategic advisor to senior management. He represents BMO in domestic and international markets, building and expanding relationships with corporate and commercial clients, helping broaden BMO’s global networks, and focusing on strategic issues and opportunities.

Prior to joining BMO, Mr. Lynch built a distinguished career in the Government of Canada. Before his retirement in 2009, he served the Government of Canada as Clerk of the Privy Council, Secretary to the Cabinet, and Head of the Public Service of Canada and its 260,000 public servants.

Mr. Lynch began his public service career at the Bank of Canada in 1976 and has held a number of senior positions in the Government of Canada. These included the post of Deputy Minister of Industry, from 1995 to 2000, and Deputy Minister of Finance, from 2000 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Executive Director (for the Canadian, Irish and Caribbean constituency) at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Lynch holds a PhD in Economics from McMaster University; an MA in Economics from University of Manchester; and a BA (Honours) in Economics from Mount Allison University. He was made a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and has been awarded honourary doctorates by five Canadian universities.

Mr. Lynch is a member of the Board of the Gairdner Foundation, which honours outstanding global medical researchers, the Board of Governors of Waterloo University, the Board of the Perimeter Institute, the Advisory Board of the Shannon School of Business (Cape Breton University), and Board of the U.K. Ditchley Foundation. He is also Chair of the Canada Ditchley Foundation.

On June 10, 2004, Mr. David Zussman was confirmed as a part-time Commissioner of the Public Service Commission of Canada to hold office for a term of seven years.

Mr. Zussman has had a varied career in government, the private sector and in academia and is a recognized authority on public sector management, public administration and public policy. He has been closely involved in some of the most exciting developments in Canada in public sector governance and alternative service delivery over the past 15 years.

In August 2005, Mr. Zussman joined the University of Ottawa as the first recipient of the Stephen Jarislowsky Chair for Public Sector Management. In this capacity, he will focus on research, teaching and public programs in public management, governance and accountability.

Mr. Zussman has served in a number of positions at the University of Ottawa, including Assistant and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs (School of Management) and Dean of the School of Management from 1988 to 1992. During that time he was a Professor of Public Policy and Management and taught in the Executive MBA Program until 2004. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Canberra (Australia).

From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Zussman was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at EKOS Research Associates Inc.

In 1995, Mr. Zussman joined the Public Policy Forum, an organization committed to bridging the gap between government, business, labour and the voluntary sector. He was appointed President in 1996, and remained in that position until 2003.

In 1994, he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Program Review and Machinery of Government, to help the government implement its commitment to a fundamental review of federal spending. In 1993, Mr. Zussman was responsible for the transition of the newly elected government.

Mr. Zussman has published articles and books on public management and policy making in Canada, and is the author and co-author of many publications, including Alternative Service Delivery: Sharing Governance in Canada and The Vertical Solitude: Managing in the Public Service. He writes a monthly public policy column for the Ottawa Citizen.

He sits on numerous public and private sector advisory boards and boards of directors. In 2003, he was awarded the Public Service Citation Award by the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX).

Michael Bryant assists clients with commercial and investment matters relating to energy, cleantech, natural resources and infrastructure/public-private partnerships. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Bryant held important roles in the Ontario public sector, as Attorney General, Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, Government House Leader and, more recently, founding President and CEO of Invest Toronto, an arm's length economic development agency. He served as a Member of Provincial Parliament for 10 years, winning three elections in his mid-town Toronto constituency, and served on the Executive Council of Ontario from 2003 to 2009.

During his term as Ontario's Aboriginal Affairs Minister, he negotiated a multibillion dollar revenue sharing agreement with Ontario First Nations, returned Ipperwash Provincial Park to its First Nation and established the $25 million New Relationship Fund.

While Minister of Economic Development, a role he assumed on the cusp of an unprecedented recession, his department secured over $1.5 billion of investments in manufacturing, info tech, clean tech, life sciences, and aerospace. He worked closely with global business leaders, large and small investors, entrepreneurs, all levels of government and industry experts.

Mr. Bryant was also the lead representative for Ontario during the auto industry crisis, working closely with the federal government, US officials and senior global managers at Chrysler, GM, Ford, Toyota and Honda.

Prior to his career as a legislator, Mr. Bryant practised law as a commercial litigator for a large national law firm, clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada, and taught law and politics at Osgoode Hall and King's College (London). He has published several articles and books on public affairs and law.

Matthew has combined a distinguished academic career with senior executive experience in Government.

Prior to assuming his current position, Matthew served from 2004-2009 as a Deputy Minister in the Ontario government where he held responsibility, variously, for Intergovernmental Affairs, the Democratic Renewal Secretariat, and the Office of International Relations and Protocol. He also served as Associate Secretary to the Cabinet in Cabinet Office.

Prior to joining the Ontario government, Matthew was a member of the Political Studies Department at Queen’s University for over a decade where he published widely on Canadian politics, Quebec politics, public opinion, federalism and democratic institutions. He also served as Director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive.

From 1996 – 1998, Matthew took a leave from Queen’s to work with the federal government as a Senior Advisor in Privy Council Office, where he worked on national unity and constitutional issues, and served as team lead for public opinion research.

Matthew received his B.A. from McGill University and Ph.D. from the l’Université de Montréal, and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Matthew serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations.

Lynda Bowles is a Deloitte audit partner in the Public Sector group. She has worked at Deloitte and its previous firms since 1979. She has been active at the firm in helping to create an atmosphere, which is flexible to the needs of the employees. Lynda was elected a FCA, (Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ontario Division) in 1997 and won the YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Business in 1998. These awards and designations were in recognition of the efforts Lynda demonstrated in recruiting, promoting, mentoring and networking with other women professionals. In addition Lynda has served on boards of Hospitals and charitable organizations. She has an understanding of life as a Board member. Lynda co-authored the Deloitte publications “The effective Not for Profit Board” and “Terms of reference for a Not for Profit Audit Committee

Edward Greenspon has most recently been appointed vice-president, business development at the Toronto Star and the Star Media Group. He will also be writing a weekly column for the paper.

Edward Greenspon is an award-winning author, columnist and the former Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail from 2002-2009. His political, business and economic acumen offers a unique perspective on Canadian public policy.

Since leaving the Globe & Mail in 2009 has chaired The GPS Project, an initiative of the Toronto-based Canadian International Council aimed at producing a new global positioning strategy for Canada.

He is best known for his political and economic coverage, first as The Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau chief and then as its political editor. His knowledge of the Canadian political scene is without peer. Greenspon's background in business and economic reporting grounds his work and adds contextual knowledge often lacking in the media. And his time as a foreign correspondent and more recently with the Canadian International Council provides him with a global view.

He is a pioneer in digital media in Canada as the founding editor of globeandmail.com and an expert in the interplay between media, society and politics.

Before joining The Globe and Mail, Ed lived and worked in Western Canada for five years. He understands Canada from a variety of vantage points.

Greenspon is a veteran public speaker and has appeared on CTV, CBC TV and Radio, TVOntario, CKNW among other broadcast media. He was co-host with Craig Oliver of CTV's weekly current affairs program, Question Period.