{"id":11752,"date":"2024-01-19T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T20:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11752"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:06:16","slug":"allan-gregg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/allan-gregg\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Gregg"},"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                        Allan Gregg\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Allan-Gregg.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Allan-Gregg.png 168w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Allan-Gregg-160x196.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Allan Gregg was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Friday, June 16, \u201cin recognition of his career as a policy analyst, advisor, strategic thinker, insightful commentator, and leading predictor of political trends.\u201d<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a doctoral student and Political Science lecturer at Carleton University in the 1970s before leaving to work on Parliament Hill. He was a key strategist for the Progressive Conservative Party under Brian Mulroney and played a large role in the party\u2019s 1984 and 1988 federal election victories. He has been integral to more than 50 election campaigns on three continents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a widely published analyst and featured public speaker who regularly contributes to newspapers and magazines. He has offered his views and insights on CBC\u2019s At Issue Panel for more than a decade and hosted TVO\u2019s Allan Gregg: In Conversation With.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gregg founded Decima Research in 1979, co-founded the Strategic Counsel in 1995 and was Chair of Harris-Decima from 2007 to 2014. A founding shareholder of Canada\u2019s children\u2019s network, YTV, he also served as chair of the Toronto Film Festival and the Walrus Foundation. He sits on the General Motors of Canada\u2019s Advisory Board and is a past director of the Public Policy Forum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Writers Trust. Allan is a recipient of the Public Affairs Association Award of Distinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012, Gregg was inducted into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends and was named Adjunct Professor at Carleton\u2019s School of Public Policy and Administration and its Political Management program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a1ZQ8WJzKB4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Allan Gregg<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allan Gregg was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Friday, June 16, \u201cin recognition of his career as a policy analyst, advisor, strategic thinker, insightful commentator, and leading predictor of political trends.\u201d He was a doctoral student and Political Science lecturer at Carleton University in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11752","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13597,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11752\/revisions\/13597"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}