April 15, 2014 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, today announced the appointment of a new Senior Fellow. He is John Stackhouse, distinguished former editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail.
“John Stackhouse is an accomplished journalist, author and speaker on national and international affairs, with a wide range of policy-relevant expertise,” said Mr. Robson. “He is a notable thought leader on matters relating to Canadian public policy. The policy work undertaken by the Institute will be all the stronger with him as a Senior Fellow.”
John Stackhouse served as the editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail from 2009-2014, and holds both a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University, as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Windsor.
Previously, John Stackhouse served as editor of Report on Business and was also the newspaper’s national editor, foreign editor, correspondent at large, and from 1992 to 1999, was the development issues correspondent based in New Delhi. He has also worked for the Financial Times, London Free Press and The Toronto Star. Mr. Stackhouse has won five national newspaper awards, a national magazine award and an Amnesty International Award for human rights reporting. He is the author of two books, “Out of Poverty” and “Timbit Nation: A Hitchhikers Guide to Canada,”, and a contributing author to “The Bre-X Fraud,” “Travels with My Laptop” and “Foreign Correspondent: Fifty Years of Reporting South Asia.”
During his career, Mr. Stackhouse has interviewed global figures such as Vladimir Putin, Kofi Annan, the Aga Khan, Al Gore, Alan Greenspan, Manmohan Singh, and Benazir Bhutto, among others.
“John has the ability to catch policymakers’ ears, and his distinguished career is testament to that. We look forward to hearing more of his voice in the public policy debate, at the Institute and beyond,” said Finn Poschmann, Vice-President of Research.
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