Speaker Bios

One of Canada’s more prolific public servants, Tony Campbell served in nine departments and agencies during his 34-year tenure (1967-2001), including the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, where he was posted to Guyana, Spain and Morocco (1967-1975); and the Privy Council Office, where he was Executive Director of the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat (1993-2000). In addition, he was the Assistant Deputy Minister for Regulatory Affairs (1986-90) and the acting Deputy Minister for Privatization and Regulatory Affairs (1989-90) before becoming Vice Principal of the Canadian Centre for Management Development (1990-93), where he led the first Canadian Advanced Management Program for top-level public servants.

Since 2001, he has run Campbell Intel Services Inc., an Ottawa-based international management and training consulting firm specializing in international collaboration and conference management, with clients in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Since 2002, he has been an adjunct teacher of strategic information and communications in the peace and conflict studies program at Royal Roads University and a visiting or research fellow at Cambridge, Carleton, Victoria and Warwick universities, speaking and writing about strategic forecasting, communications, cross-cultural negotiation, change management and intelligence analysis.

From 2002 to 2006, he was Vice President and President, and now is an Honorary Life Member, of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies. Since 2006, he has been Coordinator of the Community of Interest on the Practice and Organization of Intelligence for the Global Futures Forum. In 2011, he completed a Bachelor of Theology degree at St. Paul University/University of Ottawa with emphasis on organizational change and religious dimensions of international and domestic security.