SPPG Professor Tony Dean to be Appointed to the Senate
October 31, 2016 | By Public Policy Admin |
PM Trudeau is set to appoint six new non-partisan Senators from Ontario today, including SPPG Professor Tony Dean.
Tony Dean is a professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He advises governments and international organizations on public service reform and building capacity for policy-making and delivery.
From 2002 to 2008 Dean was Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Ontario Public Service. He also served as Deputy Minister of Labour, and as the deputy minister in the Cabinet Office responsible for cross-government policy coordination. In his role as a public servant he provided non-partisan advice to NDP, Progressive Conservative and Liberal governments in Ontario.
Dean has written on public sector leadership and co-authored a Mowat Centre report on pathways to fiscal sustainability in Canada. In 2012 he authored a report on integrated public service delivery in Commonwealth countries. Dean has chaired advisory panels on teachers’ benefit plans (2014), Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario (2010), and Business and Human Resource Planning in Canada’s public service (2008). He has written for the Toronto Star and the UK-based Guardian newspaper. His book, Building Better Public Services, was published in 2015.
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