Ian Brodie

Ian Brodie  link Sourcewatch (Political scientist)
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Born	Ian Ross Brodie July 25, 1967 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	McGill University, University of Calgary
Party	Conservative Party of Canada
Attended the 2008 Bilderberg as Chief of Staff to the Canadian Prime Minister

Ian Ross Brodie is a Canadian political scientist who was a senior member of the team that created the Conservative Party of Canada and propelled Stephen Harper into the Prime Minister's Office, being his Chief of Staff until July 1, 2008. He attended the 2008 Bilderberg meeting and numerous Halifax International Security Forums.

Education

Brodie attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools. He received a BA in political science from McGill University in Montreal, and an MA and a PhD from the University of Calgary.

Career

In 1997, he became assistant professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario in London; promotion to tenured associate professor came in 2002. At Western, he specialized in Canadian politics, particularly Canadian conservative politics and law and politics.

His book Friends of the Court: The Privileging of Interest Group Litigants in Canada (2002), a revision of his doctoral dissertation, discussed the treatment of interest groups seeking leave to intervene before the Supreme Court of Canada. Friends posited that the court had come to favor a preferred set of interest groups, and explored the legal theory by which this had come about.

In 2003, he took leave from Western to become assistant to the chief of staff in the office of the federal leader of the opposition, first under Harper when he led the Canadian Alliance, then under Grant Hill's interim parliamentary leadership in 2004.

When Harper became leader of the successor Conservative Party of Canada, he appointed Brodie its executive director. In August 2005 he appointed Brodie his chief of staff. When Harper became prime minister after the 2006 election, Brodie became PMO chief of staff. The news that he was leaving the post in 2008 came days before the release of a report on a Clinton/Obama NAFTA leak controversy.

He later became a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

His book At the Centre of Government (2018) is based in part on his experiences with Harper.