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Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail’s national affairs columnist, is the recipient of all three leading Canadian literary prizes – the Governor-General’s Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and two time winner of the National Newspaper Award for column writing. Jeffrey also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism.

In January 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. From 1981-1983, Jeffrey Simpson served as The Globe’s European correspondent based in London, England. He began writing his national affairs column in January 1984 and has since appeared on numerous French and English television and radio programs. Jeffrey Simpson has published six books – Discipline of Power (1980); Spoils of Power (1988); Fault-lines, Struggling for a Canadian Vision (1993); The Anxious Years (1996); and Star-Spangled Canadians (2000) and The Friendly Dictatorship (2001), Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge (2007).

Jeffrey has written numerous magazine articles for such publications as Saturday Night, The Report on Business Magazine, The Journal of Canadian Studies, and The Queen’s Quarterly. Jeffrey speaks at dozens of major conferences here and abroad on a variety of domestic and international issues and is a regular television contributor. Jeffrey includes Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Brigham Young, John Hopkins, Maine, California, plus more than a dozen universities in Canada on his list of guest lecturer spots.

In 1993-1994, Mr. Simpson was on leave from the column as a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He was a Skelton-Clark fellow and Brockington Visitor at Queen’s University. He was also a John V. Clyne fellow at the University of British Columbia, a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta and a member of the Georgetown University Leadership Seminar.

In 1998, Jeffrey was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of British Columbia. Jeffrey has also been awarded honorary degrees from the University of Western Ontario, Queen's University, l'Université de Moncton, and the University of Manitoba. Jeffrey Simpson was a member of the board of trustees at Queen’s University; the board of overseers at Green College, University of British Columbia; the advisory board of the Review of Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta; the editorial board of The Queen’s Quarterly, and the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto.

He is vice-chairman of the City of Ottawa Library Board. He lives in Ottawa with his wife Wendy. They have three children.

Presentations Include:

How Does Canada Compete in a Globalized Economy?
How can Canada compete in a globalized economy, with its fierce pressures, wildly unbalanced trade flows, uncertain currency movements and enormous sovereign debts in Europe and the United States?

Hot Air: Fixing Canada's Climate Change Catastrophe
Simpson lays out in convincing and easily understandable terms the few simple policies that Canada must adopt right away in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change.

State of the Nation:  Canadian Politics

How Do We Make the Canadian Economy & Business More Competitive?

Foreign Affairs & Canada-U.S Relations