Jeffrey Simpson

Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist, has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes -- the Governor-General's award for non-fiction book writing; the National Magazine Award for political writing; and the National Newspaper Award for column-writing.

Born in New York, Jeffrey Simpson came to Canada when he was 10 years old and studied at the University of Toronto, Queen's University and the London School of Economics. In 1972-73, he received a parliamentary internship scholarship in Ottawa. A year later, he joined The Globe and Mail.

His career with the newspaper began at City Hall in Toronto with coverage of Quebec politics. In 1977 he became a member of the paper's Ottawa bureau, and eighteen month later was named The Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau chief. From 1981-1983, Mr. Simpson served as The Globe's European correspondent based in London, England. He began writing his national affairs column in January, 1984.

Jeffrey Simpson has published three books -- Discipline of Power (1980), Spoils of Power (1988) and Faultlines, Struggling for a Canadian Vision (1993). His newest release is due out this fall, The Anxious Years, an anthology of articles from The Globe and Mail over the past 10 years. Mr. Simpson has authored numerous magazine articles for such publications as Saturday Night, the Report on Business Magazine, The Journal of Canadian Studies, and The Queen's Quarterly. He has spoken at dozens of major conferences here and abroad on a variety of domestic and international issues. He has also been a regular contributor to television and radio programs in both English & French.

In 1993-94, Mr. Simpson was on leave from his column as a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University. He has also been a Skelton-Clark fellow at Queen's University, and in the autumn of 1994 was that university's Brockington Visitor. He has been a John V. Clyne fellow at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta. He is also a graduate of the Georgetown University Leadership seminar.

Mr. Simpson is a member of the board of trustees at Queen's University, the board of overseers at Green College, University of British Columbia, a member of the advisory board of the Review of Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta, a member of the editorial board of The Queen's Quarterly, and of the Canadian Consortium for Asia Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto.

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