Paul Summerville

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Paul Summerville is a Canadian, born (December 1957) in London, England, raised in Toronto, Canada who has held senior positions as an economist, equity research director, and Asian regional head at several prominent global investment banks (Deutsche Bank, Jardine Fleming, Lehman Brothers, Richardson Greenshields, RBC Dominion Securities, and Toronto Dominion Securities). He works as a global bond strategist at a US-based institutional investment management firm.

Completing a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo (1988) with a thesis on the Japanese automotive industry, he studied and worked in Tokyo, Japan from 1983 to 1994, and again from 2000-2004. He worked in Toronto from 1995 to 2000.

His economic forecasts and political analysis led him to many appearances in the global television and radio media including the BBC, CNN, CBC, CTV, ABC,^[1] CBS,^[2] NBC,^[3] PBS, and NHK. He had a regular column in the Nikkei Weekly, and the Financial Post, has published in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Asian Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, and National Post, and was often quoted in many of the world's leading economic newspapers^[4] and magazines.

Following his return to Canada in September 2004, Summerville ran in the 2006 Canadian federal election as a member of the New Democratic Party in the Toronto riding of St. Paul's. St. Paul's was given extensive national media coverage^[5] in part because of the riding's historical bellwether status, but also because of the profile that the contenders to a strong incumbent provided.^[6] Paul's campaign attracted interest in its own right because of the prominence that the national campaign gave a political rookie, and his against-type NDP candidacy. He placed third after Liberal incumbent Carolyn Bennett and Conservative Peter Kent. In September 2006 Summerville joined the federal Liberal Party to give his support to Bob Rae ^[7] and attended the Liberal convention in Montreal that ultimately elected Stephane Dion as leader.

Summerville's studies also include a B.A. from York University -- Glendon College (1976-1980) with a third year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978-1979), an M.A. from the University of Alberta (1980-1981), Ph.D. work at the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva (1981-1982) and the University of Alberta (1982-1983), and Japanese studies at Osaka Foreign Language University (1983-1984).

Currently, he lives with his wife in Boston.

He is the great-nephew of former Mayor of Toronto Donald Dean Summerville.