Randall Pearce

Randall Pearce is a social researcher from Sydney, Australia. He was born in Ontario, Canada, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Public Administration from the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Pearce led party communications for Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1991–1993 and was the last federal Progressive Conservative candidate in Toronto Centre-Rosedale in 2000.

Along with Jaime Watt and George Marsland, Pearce was also one of the co-founders of the Canadian Human Rights Campaign,[1] a political action committee that raised money and lobbied for gay equality legislation in the 1990s.

After making his permanent home in Sydney, Australia in 2003, Pearce established the Australian public affairs division of the international research firm, Ipsos. He served as the primary author of the Ipsos Mackay Report - Australia's longest-running programme of social research, founded by Hugh Mackay, and conducted the firm's research polls.[2]

In 2006, he founded THINK: Insight & Advice Pty Ltd. Since then, he has conducted a number of studies in policy areas as diverse as education, health, the environment, industrial relations and immigration.

As a member of Al Gore's Climate Project, he has delivered his version of the documentary An Inconvenient Truth in Australia and New Zealand. In 2008, he founded Thermometer Survey, a syndicated research service which provides insights into public opinion on climate change for large public and private sector organisations.

He is a past recipient (1995) of the International Association of Business Communicators Jake Wittmer Award.

Positions

Managing Director, Think: Insight & Advice Pty Ltd.

Former General Manager, Ipsos Mackay Public Affairs, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, Vice-President, Communications and Government Affairs, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

References

  1. ↑ "The queer thing about the right wing". Now Toronto. 22 June 2000.
  2. ↑ "Riots fuelled by racism, say voters". The Age. 18 December 2005.

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