Hugh D. Segal

Member of The Senate of Canada for Kingston-Frontenac-Leeds. Currently a director of several companies, including Energy Savings Income Fund, Gluskin Sheff + Associates, General Motors of Canada Advisory Council, SNC-Lavalin Group, St. Lawrence Cement, Chair of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and is a Governor of Kingston General Hospital. Former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Canada and Associate Secretary of the Ontario Cabinet, Mr. Segal is one of Canada's better-known public policy experts. Since 1999, Hugh Segal has been President of the Institute for Research on Public Policy of Canada and has taught at Queen's University Schools of Policy Studies and Business since 1993. In 2003, he was awarded the Order of Canada and holds a Doctorate in Law (honoris causa) from the Royal Military College of Canada.