Public Policy at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy | University of Toronto

Bio
Karim Bardeesy is a public service leader who has worked at the intersection of public policy, politics, journalism and academia for the last 15 years. He is currently Deputy Principal Secretary for the Premier of Ontario, the Hon. Kathleen Wynne, and served as Executive Director of Policy for Premier Wynne and the Hon. Dalton McGuinty from 2011-2014. He has worked as a journalist, as an editorial writer at The Globe and Mail and as an editorial assistant at Slate magazine, and was a DiverseCity fellow with the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance. He has taught narrative and leadership at SPPG since 2009. He has a B.A. from McGill University, and an M.P.P. from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he studied leadership pedagogy under Marshall Ganz. Prior to graduate studies, he was an Ontario Legislature Intern and worked as a political assistant for the Ontario Liberals at Queen’s Park, in opposition and in government.