{"id":4169,"date":"2021-04-13T09:11:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T13:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:17","slug":"seager-appointed-practice-lead-for-council-of-canadian-innovators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2021\/seager-appointed-practice-lead-for-council-of-canadian-innovators\/","title":{"rendered":"Seager Appointed Practice Lead for Council of Canadian Innovators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Seager Appointed Practice Lead for Council of Canadian Innovators\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) announced a national expansion today, hiring government relations experts in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. The new additions include Tessa Seager, an alumna of Carleton University\u2019s Riddell Program in Political Management, appointed practice lead for BC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seager holds a law degree from the University of British Columbia and a master of political management (MPM) degree from the Riddell Program. Seager remembers her time at Carleton fondly, describing the MPM as \u201ca prerequisite for those looking to truly understand politics.\u201d After graduating in 2019, she became a principal at McMillan Vantage Policy Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CCI is a national organization representing more than 130 state-of-the-art Canadian companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and health technologies. The group promotes government policies to encourage a more innovative economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) announced a national expansion today, hiring government relations experts in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. The new additions include Tessa Seager, an alumna of Carleton University\u2019s Riddell Program in Political Management, appointed practice lead for BC. Seager holds a law degree from the University of British Columbia and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}