Sussex Circle Resources
Partners
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Founding partner Jim Mitchell
is a former Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Machinery of Government
and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Board. He brings a unique
background in high-level policy work, government organisation, and
public sector management generally.
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Partner Ron
Jackson is a former Assistant Deputy Minister at Transport
Canada (Aviation, and more recently Safety and Security) with extensive
experience in transportation, privatizing government operations, senior
personnel and regulatory issues.
Principals
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Diane
Carroll, principal, was an ADM at HRSDC. She has over 30 years
experience in strategic policy and program design with expertise in the
areas of employment, youth, industrial relations, environment,
sustainable development, and federal-provincial-territorial and
Aboriginal relations. She has an in-depth understanding of the policy
and legislative change processes with strong horizontal management,
negotiating, problem-solving, analytical and communications skills.
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Brian
Emmett, principal, was the Assistant Deputy Minister at Natural
Resources Canada responsible for Forestry and, more recently, Strategic
Policy. He was also an Assistant Deputy Minister at Environment Canada
and Vice President of Policy at the Canadian International Development
Agency and was Canada's first Commissioner of the Environment and
Sustainable Development. His main interests include policy
analysis, strategy development, corporate social responsibility, and
economic development in Canada and the developing world.
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Rick
Smith,
principal, is an economist and served most recently as Assistant
Auditor General responsible for strategic planning, professional
practices and international relations. He has 35 years of experience in
five federal government organizations, providing advice on a broad
range of public policy and public management issues.
Associates
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Nigel
Chippindale, associate, was a Director of Policy at Human
Resources Development Canada and a senior analyst at Treasury Board
Secretariat. He has a wide range of experience in
areas that include learning, youth, social policy, strategic
communications, and organizational restructuring. Mr. Chippindale has
specialized in developing policy documents and presentations for senior
management and Ministers.
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Hervé
Coulombe, associate, served in the federal Public Service for
over 30 years. He has broad experience at the executive level in Human
Resources Management, in particular, in Total Compensation at the Privy
Council Office and at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
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Allan
Darling, associate, has extensive experience in government
expenditure management systems and design of government organizations.
His 35 year public service career included positions in the Treasury
Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office at the Deputy Secretary
level and as Secretary General of the Canadian Radio-Television and
Telecommunications Commission.
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Andrée
Delagrave, associate, is a jurist and former Assistant Deputy
Minister with the Government of Canada. She brings extensive experience
in public policy and law reform, strategic planning, access to
information and information management, institutional reform and large
scale organizational change, and facilitation.
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Mario Dion,
associate,served
as
Deputy Head of the National Parole Board and
Deputy Minister of Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada.
Previous to that he had been Associate Deputy Minister of Justice and
Deputy Clerk and Counsel at PCO. He has wide experience not only in the
justice arena, but also in senior management, policy development, human
resources management, finance, and information technology.
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Len
Endemann, associate, most recently Director General,
Intergovernmental and International Affairs at the Canada Revenue
Agency, also held a number of senior positions in the Treasury Board
Secretariat responsible for, inter alia, cost recovery, alternative
service delivery, government-wide restructuring, and implementation of
the initial infrastructure program. He has experience in regional
economic development policy and programs, broadcasting and cultural
policy, and transportation policy.
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Alan
Gilmore, associate, is a former senior principal in the Office
of the Auditor General of Canada. He has extensive experience assessing
whether government agencies are operating economically, efficiently,
and effectively. He was also responsible for special audits of complex
issues and reviews of parliamentary and central agency control over the
public purse, health and safety regulatory programs, and values and
ethics initiatives. In addition, he has an extensive background in
forensic auditing.
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Warren
Johnson, associate, has occupied a variety of senior executive
positions at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, as well as in the
international trade, industrial and regional development, and
procurement portfolios of the federal government. He has led northern
regional operations; undertaken a number of successful legislative and
negotiation projects;
and completed an assortment of international and private sector
assignments
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brings a strong strategic focus to management consulting and public
policy issues.
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Jim
Lynes, associate, joined Sussex Circle in 2010. With
almost 35 years of broad public sector experience, both within the
federal public service and with Crown Corporations, he is recognized as
a strong manager and leader with skills in strategic, operational and
financial planning, problem solving, change management and community
and stakeholder consultation. Jim has served as VP, Real Estate and
then
President and CEO of the Canada Lands Company (CLC) and President and
CEO of the Canada Ports Corporation.
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Jim
Millar, associate, joined Sussex Circle in 2004. A former Vice
President with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Jim brings
35 years of broad public sector experience, both international and
domestic, together with strong skills in areas such as planning,
problem solving, change management and interpersonal and human
resources management.
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Kevin
Saville, associate, was Assistant Deputy Minister of
Communications at Human Resources Development Canada. He possesses over
twenty-five years of organizational leadership and management
experience at both the federal and provincial levels.
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Harvey Sims,
associate,
was Director of Social Policy in the Department of Finance,
Senior Economist in the Privy Council Office, lecturer in economics and
government at universities in Ontario and the U.S., and most recently
director of a research unit at the Canadian International Development
Agency.
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John
Sinclair, associate, was most recently Senior Assistant Deputy
Minister, Policy and Strategic Direction in Indian and Northern Affairs
Canada. He brings expertise in policy development and strategic/
forward planning, organizational design and performance, negotiations
mandating and litigation risk management. He has an in-depth knowledge
of First Nations, Inuit and Métis development challenges, as
well as federal-provincial/ territorial matters, aboriginal relations
and international indigenous issues.
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Andrei
Sulzenko, associate, retired from the Government of Canada in
2004. He brings with him more than thirty years of experience as a
public policy practitioner, strong management and negotiating skills,
and in-depth knowledge of the Canadian and international economic
landscape.
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Andy Watt,
associate,
the
former head of the Northern Region of Justice Canada,
was closely involved in the creation of Nunavut. His 30 years of
experience in public law and public policy include the Canada-US Free
Trade Agreement, constitutional amendments, judicial affairs, and the
criminal justice
system. He has worked with non-governmental organizations, First
Nations, Aboriginal organizations, and communities.
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Hal
Whiteman, associate, has extensive experience in the fields of
security and emergency management, and has worked extensively with
industry, police forces, provincial and territorial governments,
international agencies and other national governments. He worked as
Transport Canada’s Director General, Security and Emergency
Preparedness and as a Senior Advisor for the Office of Critical
Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (OCIPEP) and
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC).
Personnel
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Nicole Lavigne, Office Manager, worked
in the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council Office before
joining Sussex Circle in 1994. She is responsible for all matters of
financial and contract administration in Sussex Circle.
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Julie Savard-Shaw, Executive
Assistant to Jim Mitchell, is a graduate student at Carleton
University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. She
received her Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management in June
2010.
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