Jeffery Simpson - Globe & Mail's National Affairs Columnist

As the Globe and Mail’s national affairs columnist since 1984, Jeffrey Simpson knows domestic and international issues. He has won the Governor General’s award for non-fiction writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism. Simpson’s views have been published in Saturday Night, Report on Business Magazine, The Journal of Canadian Studies and The Queen’s Quarterly.

He has lectured at Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Brigham Young, Johns Hopkins, Maine, California, and more than a dozen universities in Canada. His books include Discipline of Power, Spoils of Power, Faultlines: Struggling For a Canadian Vision, The Anxious Years, Star-Spangled Canadians and The Friendly Dictatorship. He co-authored his newest book Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge.

Jeffrey Simpson regularly contributes to television and radio programs in both official languages and is a sought-after speaker at major conferences in Canada and abroad.