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Matthew Mendelsohn is a Canadian public policy expert, public sector executive and civil servant. He is the Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Results and Delivery) in the Privy Council Office of Canada. In that capacity, he heads the Prime Minister's Results & Delivery Unit. He was the founding director of the Mowat Centre, a Canadian public policy think tank. He also served as a deputy minister in the Ontario Public Service, a political science professor at Queen's University, and a senior advisor with the government of Canada. He served on a number of not-for-profit volunteer boards and was the founding Board Chair for the Council of the Great Lakes Region. Prior to joining the Privy Council Office, he was a frequent public speaker and commentator in print and broadcast media.
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- Federal provincial politics health what s next featuring matthew mendelsohn
- Matthew mendelsohn voter equality and other canadian values finding the right balance
- Early life
- Public service and academic careers
- Research publications and areas of expertise
- Public appearances expert consulting and volunteer work
- References
Mendelsohn lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children.
Matthew mendelsohn voter equality and other canadian values finding the right balance
Early life
Mendelsohn grew up in Montreal, QC, Canada. He graduated from West Hill High School, a public school in N.D.G. He received a B.A. in Political Science from McGill University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship.
Public service and academic careers
After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen’s University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada's Privy Council Office, directing public opinion research activities for the Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs. He returned to Queen’s University, where he became an associate professor in 2000. In 2001, Mendelsohn was appointed Director of Canadian Opinion Research Archive at Queen’s University.
In 2004, Mendelsohn left Queen’s University to take up a position as Deputy Minister and Head of the Democratic Renewal Secretariat with the Government of Ontario. Mendelsohn was appointed the deputy minister of the Ontario government's Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs in 2005, and Associate Secretary of the Ontario Cabinet in 2007. As deputy minister, he led the creation of Ontario's Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform (Ontario).
In 2009, Mendelsohn founded the Mowat Centre, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think tank located at the School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto. In 2013, the Mowat Centre partnered with the Canada-U.S. Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University to launch the Council of the Great Lakes Region, which was incubated at the Mowat Centre.
In January 2016, Mendelsohn was appointed to the Privy Council Office of Canada as deputy secretary to the cabinet (results and delivery). Later that year he was also given responsibility for the Government of Canada's central Innovation Hub.
Research publications and areas of expertise
Mendelsohn’s areas of research expertise include Canadian politics, Canadian federalism, democratic institutions, public opinion, and government transformation.
Mendelsohn is co-editor of Referendum Democracy: Citizens, Elites, and Deliberation in Referendum Campaigns (Palgrave, 2001) and Shifting Power: The New Ontario and What it Means for Canada (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 2013). His academic articles have appeared in the academic journals Canadian Journal of Political Science, Health Affairs, International Journal, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Canadian Public Policy, British Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, American Review of Canadian Studies, the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Canadian Journal of Communications, and others.
At the Mowat Centre, Mendelsohn has supervised and provided expert advice and leadership on over 100 papers and reports. He has authored or co-authored 18 of the Centre’s reports, among them:
Public appearances, expert consulting, and volunteer work
During his time as Director of the Mowat Centre, Mendelsohn was a frequent media commentator and was routinely invited to provide expert advice to public officials and politicians. Mendelsohn was part of a weekly panel of political experts on Toronto newstalk radio station CFRB 1010’s Moore in the Morning show with John Moore. On television, Mendelsohn has appeared on CBC’s The Exchange, TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, CTV's Power Play with Don Martin, and others. On radio, Mendelsohn appeared on multiple CBC affiliates and newstalk radio stations across Canada. His op-eds have appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, the Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen, and the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal.
Mendelsohn served as an invited expert witness to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs’ during its study of the Fair Representation Act, and to the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities during its study on the renewal of labour market development agreements. He acted as a non-partisan advisor to then Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau on policy and platform development prior to the 2015 federal election campaign. He later served on Prime Minister Trudeau’s transition team and drafted Ministerial mandate letters following the 2015 elections.
Mendelsohn served on the board of trustees of the United Way Toronto & York Region, the board of CIVIX, the steering committee of CivicAction, the advisory board of the Forum of Federations, and the academic advisory committee of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive. He had previously served as the chair of the board of the Council of the Great Lakes Region and in volunteer leadership and advisory roles on Serve!, the Council of the Federation, the Banff Forum, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, the Globe and Mail New Canada Series, Canada's Commission on the Future of Medicare, and the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network.