Robert Asselin

Robert Asselin (born 1974) is an author, a public policy expert and a former political advisor to Canadian Prime Ministers and Ministers under various liberal governments. In July 2020, he was appointed Senior Vice-President, Policy at the Business Council of Canada. From 2017-2020, he was Senior Global Director, Public Policy at BlackBerry. Asselin is a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto and at the Public Policy Forum in Ottawa.

Career

Asselin was the Associate Director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa from 2007 to 2015.[1]

He served as a Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his leadership campaign and in the 2015 federal election. .[2]

In 2014, he was appointed Visiting Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

From November 2015 to November 2017, he served as Budget and Policy Director to Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau.[1]

gollark: Well, it could do that easily as long as it doesn't try to do simulate itself doing future reminders during that time.
gollark: And if I used the secret non-GDPR-compliant datasets I have all on all users here people might get annoyed.
gollark: The AI one is most tractable, but I don't have... any hardware budget, really, and the privacy implications are problematic.
gollark: Random-walk through universe-space, going decreasing distances each step if near a consistent solution.
gollark: - AI models of all users- enumerating all possible universes given different "past reminders" until one which is self-consistent is found- that, but it uses some sort of iterative approximation instead

References
  1. Argitis, Theophilos. "Trudeau Aide Asselin Appointed as Top Morneau Policy Adviser". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  2. "Inside Justin Trudeau's war room". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-01-02.


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