Bob Plamondon
Bob Plamondon (born 8 December 1957 in Cornwall, Ontario) is a writer and consultant. He earned a Masters of Management Studies and B. Comm. (Honours) from Carleton University. In 1983, he became a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and was elected Fellow (FCPA) in 2003. In 2018, he completed the Rotman-ICD Directors Education Program. His work experience includes over 25 years as an independent consultant; full and part-time professorship at three universities over a twenty-year period; and authorship of numerous public policy studies and reports. Other community contributions include serving on the board of directors of the Sierra Club of Canada, committees of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, and the YMCA.
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| Born | Cornwall, Ontario, Canada |
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| Language | English, French |
| Residence | Ottawa |
| Education | Masters of Management Studies |
| Alma mater | Carleton University |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Subject | Canadian history and politics |
| Notable awards | Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, FCPA |
| Children | 4 |
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Background
In 1988, Plamondon ran for Federal Parliament as a Progressive Conservative. In 2012, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Also in 2012, he led a campaign that resulted in the renaming of the Ottawa River Parkway to the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway. In 2014, Plamondon was appointed by the Government of Canada to the board of directors of the National Capital Commission, where he served as chair of the audit committee and on the executive committee. In 2017, he was elected by the NCC Board of Directors to serve as interim chair.[1] His term on the NCC board concluded in June 2018.
In 2018, Plamondon launched an initiative to establish the Wellington National Mall in the Parliamentary Precinct. In 2019, he was appointed by the Government of Ontario to the board of directors of OPTrust, where he sits on the Governance and Audit committees. OPTrust holds about $22 billion in assets, which funds the pension plan for about 100,000 members of OPSEU and its retirees.
The same year, Plamondon conceived and launched The Prime Ministers Series - a partnership of the University of Ottawa and the Canada School of Public Service. Delivering Transformative Change for Canadians with the Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney was held in Ottawa on 5 March 2019, in front of over 500 aspiring and senior public servants. Former prime minister Jean Chretien was featured on 3 March 2020 and was interviewed by Plamondon.[2]
Plamondon currently also sits on the advisory board of the Digital Academy of the Canada School of Public Service as well as the boards of the National Portrait Gallery, Ottawa Business Events, and the Ottawa chapter of the Sir Winston Churchill Society.
Plamondon's books have been excerpted in Maclean's magazine and numerous Canadian newspapers, and reviewed in Quill and Quire, Literary Review of Canada, The Globe and Mail, and The Washington Times. The Truth About Trudeau stayed on Amazon's Top 100 books for 47 consecutive days.
Books
- Hay West: A Story of Canadians Helping Canadians (Red Deer Press, 2004)
- Full Circle: Death and Resurrection in Canadian Conservative Politics (Key Porter, 2006))[3]
- Blue Thunder: The Truth About Conservatives from Macdonald to Harper (Key Porter, 2009) [4][5]
- The Truth About Trudeau ( Great River Media Inc, 2013[6] )
- The Shawinigan Fox: How Jean Chrétien Defied the Elites and Reshaped Canada (Great River Media, 2017)
- O Canada! A Celebration of 150 Years (Great River Media, 2017 - chapter contribution)
External links
References
- "Plamondon named interim chair at National Capital Commission". ottawacitizen.com. 30 April 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- "Former PM Jean Chrétien in Conversation with Bob Plamondon". cpac.ca. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- "Inside the right", Montreal Gazette, 13 November 2006, archived from the original on 4 June 2011
- "official Blue Thunder page". Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- MacCharles, Tonda (7 April 2009), "PM on minds of unsettled Tories. His leadership style examined in new book on the country's Conservative history", Toronto Star
- Hamilton, Graeme (24 May 2013). "New book is a fuddle-duddle-seeking missile aimed at shattering the enduring Trudeau myth". The National Poat. Retrieved 25 May 2013.