Drew Fagan is a professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, where he teaches in graduate degree programs and leads other university initiatives. Drew also is a senior advisor at McMillan Vantage, a public affairs firm affiliated with the national business law firm McMillan LLP. Drew previously spent 12 years in leadership positions with the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada. With Ontario, he was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, with responsibility for Ontario’s long-term infrastructure plan. He was also Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, with responsibility for the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games . Drew joined the Ontario Public Service in 2009 from Ottawa, where he was Assistant Deputy Minister for strategic policy and planning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada). Before becoming a public servant in 2004, he worked at The Globe and Mail, including as parliamentary bureau chief, editorial page editor, foreign editor, associate editor of Report on Business and Washington correspondent. Drew is a board member of Waterfront Toronto, a tri-government agency which oversees redevelopment of the Toronto waterfront, and of Palette Skills, an NGO responsible for national upskilling programs. He is a member of the advisory board of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre in Washington, D.C. Drew holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario. He received his bilingual designation in the federal government in 2005 and his ICD.D designation from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, in 2017.
