Bob Plamondon


Bob Plamondon is a writer and consultant. He earned a Masters of Management Studies and B. Comm. from Carleton University. In 1983, he became a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and was elected Fellow in 2003. In 2018, he completed the Rotman-ICD Directors Education Program. His work experience includes over 25 years as an independent consultant; full and part-time professorship at three universities over a twenty-year period; and authorship of numerous public policy studies and reports. Other community contributions include serving on the board of directors of the Sierra Club of Canada, committees of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, and the YMCA.

Background

In 1988, Plamondon ran for Federal Parliament as a Progressive Conservative.
In 2012, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Also in 2012, he led a campaign that resulted in the renaming of the Ottawa River Parkway to the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway.
In 2014, Plamondon was appointed by the Government of Canada to the board of directors of the National Capital Commission, where he served as chair of the audit committee and on the executive committee. In 2017, he was elected by the NCC Board of Directors to serve as interim chair. His term on the NCC board concluded in June 2018.
In 2018, Plamondon launched an initiative to establish the Wellington National Mall in the Parliamentary Precinct.
In 2019, he was appointed by the Government of Ontario to the board of directors of OPTrust, where he sits on the Governance and Audit committees. OPTrust holds about $22 billion in assets, which funds the pension plan for about 100,000 members of OPSEU and its retirees.
The same year, Plamondon conceived and launched The Prime Ministers Series - a partnership of the University of Ottawa and the Canada School of Public Service. Delivering Transformative Change for Canadians with the Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney was held in Ottawa on 5 March 2019, in front of over 500 aspiring and senior public servants. Former prime minister Jean Chretien was featured on 3 March 2020 and was interviewed by Plamondon.
Plamondon currently also sits on the advisory board of the Digital Academy of the Canada School of Public Service as well as the boards of the National Portrait Gallery, Ottawa Business Events, and the Ottawa chapter of the Sir Winston Churchill Society.
Plamondon's books have been excerpted in Maclean's magazine and numerous Canadian newspapers, and reviewed in Quill and Quire, Literary Review of Canada, The Globe and Mail, and The Washington Times. The Truth About Trudeau stayed on Amazon's Top 100 books for 47 consecutive days.

Books