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Biography:
Hugh Segal is president of the Institute for
Research on Public Policy (IRPP),
a position he has held since 1999. He teaches at the Queen's
University's School of Policy Studies and School of Business,
where he is, respectively, the Ivey Foundation Fellow and a
professor of public policy. In the private
sector, he sits on the boards of Canadian public companies in
engineering, construction, beverage alcohol, energy and
manufacturing. In the not-for-profit sector, he is the chair of
the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, is a governor of the
Kingston General Hospital, and sits on the board of the Atlantic
Council of Canada. He is a past governor of the University of
Ottawa, from where he graduated in 1972; and former vice-chair
of the Institute of Canadian Advertising and the Advisory
Committee on Confederation for the Province of Ontario. During
fifteen years in the public sector he was associate secretary of
Cabinet for federal-provincial affairs in Ontario and chief of
staff to the prime minister in Ottawa. In his fifteen years in
the private sector he was chair of the Tact Group of
advertising, public affairs, direct marketing, publishing and
broadcast concerns; director of corporate and investor relations
at John Labatt Ltd.; and an advisor at Gluskin Sheff and
Associates, portfolio managers. He was awarded the Order of
Canada in 2003, and holds a doctorate in laws (honoris causa)
from the Royal Military College of Canada.
Hugh makes his home in Kingston and is married to Donna
Armstrong. They have one daughter, Jacqueline.
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