Ian Brodie
| Ian Brodie | |
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| 11th Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister | |
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In office February 6, 2006 – July 1, 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Tim Murphy |
| Succeeded by | Guy Giorno |
| Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Official Opposition | |
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In office August 2005 – February 2006 |
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| Leader | Stephen Harper |
| Executive Director of the Conservative Party of Canada | |
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In office 2004–2005 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 25, 1967 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater |
McGill University University of Calgary |
| Profession | Political scientist |
Ian Brodie (born July 25, 1967) is a Canadian political scientist and was Chief of Staff in Stephen Harper's Prime Minister's Office from Harper's ascension to the position of prime minister until July 1, 2008. The news that he was leaving the post came days before the release of a report on the Clinton/Obama NAFTA leak controversy. He is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary.
Brodie attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools. He earned a BA in political science from McGill University in Montreal, and an MA and a PhD from the University of Calgary.
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 (State University of New York Press, 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.
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