A graduate of the University of Ottawa in Canadian history, the Senator also studied international trade economics at the graduate level at Carleton University; his former roles include president of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal), Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Canada and Associate Cabinet Secretary in Ontario. In the private sector he has had senior executive roles in the food and alcohol beverage, advertising and public affairs and financial services sectors. He is a member of various not for profit, public company, and international boards including the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Science, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Institute for Democratic and Electoral Assistance (Stockholm), the Kingston General Hospital, and the Conference of Defence Associations. His private sector boards are in the engineering and construction, financial service, energy marketing, electronics and automobile sectors. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada as a Conservative by Prime Minister Martin, a Liberal. Since his appointment, Senator Segal has chaired the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee, as well as serving on Agriculture and Aboriginal Affairs committees. In the decade before coming to the Senate, the Senator was awarded the Order of Canada, an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the Royal Military College, and appointed an Honorary Captain of the Canadian Navy. He has written four books on Canadian politics and government, co-authored a fifth and edited a monograph on foreign and defence policy.
Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Queen’s School of Policy Studies, in Kingston, since 1993, Hugh Segal is also an Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Queen’s School of Business. He teaches in both faculties and has lectured at the University of Toronto Law School, the Canadian Forces Staff College and given guest lectures at Harvard, McGill, Western, York and the University of Toronto-Rotman Business School. Hugh Segal is the Non-Executive Chair of both the Walter Duncan Gordon Foundation and the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies.
He and his family make their home in Kingston, Ontario.
