John Duffy

Principal, Toronto/Ottawa

john@strategycorp.com

John is a founder of StrategyCorp and one of Canada's leading government relations and public affairs consultants.

Serving a wide range of ROB and Fortune 500 corporations in Toronto and Ottawa, John designs and executes public policy strategies for clients in many sectors of the economy, including: pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, financial services, energy, broadcasting, transportation, health care, manufacturing, consumer goods, post-secondary education, and retailing.

He has been actively involved in Liberal Party politics, both federally and in Ontario, for over twenty years. He has served for over fifteen years as an advisor to the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada, playing senior policy and strategy roles in the 2003 leadership campaign and the 2004 election. John has also served as a strategic consultant on the last several Ontario Liberal election campaigns, including the 2003 race which brought Premier Dalton McGuinty to power. John's government experience includes service in the federal offices of the Minister of Employment and Immigration and the Minister of the Environment, and in the offices of the Premier of Ontario, the province's Minister of Labour, and its Minister of Skills Development.

He is the author of Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership and the Making of Canada, a bestselling examination of Canada's five pivotal federal elections. Fights of Our Lives was selected as Canada's Political Book of the Year for 2002 by the Writers' Trust.

John appears regularly as a commentator in a wide range of major broadcast and print outlets. His opinions have been published in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, La Presse, the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times of London, the International Herald Tribune, and Saturday Night magazine.

He holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Toronto.