Preceded by Andrew Saxton Role Politician Name Jonathan Wilkinson | Profession Businessman Political party Liberal Party Liberal Party of Canada | |
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Alma mater University of Saskatchewan (B.A.)
University of Oxford, McGill University (Masters) Education University of Saskatchewan, University of Oxford, McGill University | ||
Jonathan wilkinson
Jonathan Wilkinson (born 1965) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of North Vancouver in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. Before entering politics, Wilkinson was a constitutional negotiator and businessman who spent twenty years in the private sector, mainly with green technology companies.
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Early life and career
Wilkinson was born in Sault Ste. Marie and grew up in Saskatoon. He was the former leader of the New Democratic Party's youth wing in Saskatchewan.
Wilkinson earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Saskatchewan and became a Rhodes Scholar. He earned master's degrees in international relations, politics, and economics from Oxford and McGill.
Wilkinson was an advisor to Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow and served in the provincial civil service from 1991 to 1995, when he joined Bain & Company's Toronto branch. In 1999, he relocated to Vancouver to work for QuestAir Technologies, a gas purification company and he became its CEO in 2002. In 2009, he became the senior vice-president for business development in Nexterra Systems, a biomass company. In 2011, Wilkinson became the CEO of BioteQ Environmental Technologies, a water treatment company based in Vancouver.
Federal politics
Wilkinson was nominated as the Liberal candidate for North Vancouver in the 2015 federal election in June 2014. In the election, he won over 55% of the vote and defeated Conservative incumbent Andrew Saxton.