David Scrymgeour
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David Scrymgeour is a Canadian entrepreneur and consultant. He is the founder of a group of companies in the information and training industries. Politically he has worked with the Green Party of Canada, the Green Party of Ontario, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. He also does pro bono work for a number of environmental organisations, NGOs and charities.
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[edit] Green Party of Canada
Scrymgeour is currently the Interim Executive Director of the Green Party of Canada and its Director of Organisation. In 2004, he was hired for a dollar-per-year as an advisor to the Green Party by its leader Jim Harris.[1] In two position papers, Green and Growing and EDA Champions, he outlined a political organisation structure that emphasised minimum critical central coordination under an Executive Director and the building of strong, self-reliant, volunteer-based, electoral district associations.[2]
[edit] Progressive Conservative Party
Scrymgeour was a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2000 federal election. He ran as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and placed third in the Markham riding, after Liberal candidate John McCallum and incumbent Jim Jones of the Canadian Alliance.
From 1999 through 2003, Scrymgeour held a number of dollar-per-year positions with the former Progressive Conservatives under Joe Clark, ultimately serving as National Director of the Party in 2002-03. He resigned this position as part of a deal between David Orchard and Peter MacKay that led to MacKay's assumption of leadership and caused a storm of protest within the party. [3]
Scrymgeour managed the lead up to Jim Flaherty's campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in 2004.[4][5]
[edit] Business and community activities
Scrymgeour has a Bachelor of Commerce and Finance degree from the University of Toronto. He worked internationally from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s as a consultant and trouble-shooter in the information industry. In 1992, he founded the first of a number of information management and training companies. Although a management team now runs the day-to-day operations, he remains involved as majority owner of the group.
Scrymgeour volunteered for the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO) in 2003, and as a trainer of political campaign managers in the Republic of Georgia. He has engaged as a volunteer advisor, donor and board member for a number of organizations, including CESO, the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust, and the Make Poverty History Campaign. His current focus is exploring the potential of private-public-third sector linkages, globally and locally, in the areas of sustainable development and the environment.[6]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Curry, Bill. "Tory executive director to advise Green Party", National Post, 20 August 2004, pp. A4.
- ^ Green and Growing by David Scrymgeour
- ^ Laghi, Brian. "Deal gives Tory jobs to Orchard supporters", Globe and Mail, 5 June 2003, pp. A1.
- ^ Benzie, Robert. "Flaherty names chief aide", Toronto Star, 19 April 2004, pp. A06.
- ^ Urquhart, Ian. "Tory man to beat in Tory race", Toronto Star, 16 June 2004, pp. A19.
- ^ All information pertaining to Scrymgeour's private career is taken from the "About the author" section of David Scrymgeour, "Green and Growing". This information was later removed from the online version.
