Katie Telford

Katie Telford
15th Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister
Assumed office
November 4, 2015
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Preceded by Ray Novak
Personal details
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Rob Silver
Children 1

Katie Telford is a Canadian political strategist and the chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.[1][2] She served as Trudeau's chief campaign advisor during his successful campaign in the 2015 election.[3][4]

Telford was raised in Toronto. Her parents were public servants; her father was Australian and her mother was from Hamilton, Ontario.[5]

When Telford was 12, she worked as a page for several weeks in the Ontario legislature. She studied political science at the University of Ottawa, where she joined the debate club. Her team was the semi-finalist at the North American competition and finished high at the world event in Glasgow, Scotland.[5]

From 2004 to 2006, Telford was chief of staff to Ontario education minister Gerard Kennedy and headed his campaign in the 2006 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election.[4] She later served as deputy chief of staff for Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, and worked as a consultant for StrategyCorp in Toronto between her positions with Dion and Trudeau.[4]

Telford is married to Rob Silver, a consultant for a public affairs agency and former regular Power & Politics panelist, with whom she has one child, George.[6][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Cabinet 2015". ipolitics.ca. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  2. ↑ "Des femmes nommées à de gros portefeuilles" (in French). Métro. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  3. ↑ "Trudeau expected to name Katie Telford chief of staff". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Delacourt, Susan (22 September 2015). "The architect of a Liberal campaign shakeup". Toronto Star. The Canadian Press. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Katie Telford: 'Hard-working, tough, honest and wicked smart'". The Ottawa Citizen. February 13, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Rob Silver says farewell". CBC News. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
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