Don Drummond

Don Drummond is a member of the board of ITIF's Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness.

Drummond is the Stauffer-Dunning fellow and adjunct professor at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. In 2011-12, he served as chair for the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services. Its final report, released in February 2012, contained nearly four hundred recommendations to provide Ontarians with excellent and affordable public services.

He previously held a series of progressively more senior positions in the areas of economic analysis and forecasting, fiscal policy and tax policy during almost 23 years with Finance Canada. His last three positions were respectively assistant deputy minister of Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis, senior assistant deputy minister of Tax Policy and Legislation and most recently, associate deputy minister. In the latter position he was responsible for economic analysis, fiscal policy, tax policy, social policy and federal-provincial relations and coordinated the planning of the annual federal budgets.