Paul Summerville
Paul Summerville is an economist, who ran for Canada's Parliament in the 2006 federal election.
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[edit] Biography
He was born December 1957 in London, England), and raised in Toronto, Canada. He received a B.A. from York University -- Glendon College (1976–1980) with a third year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978–1979), an M.A. from the University of Alberta (1980–1981), and did further graduate work at the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva (1981–1982) and the University of Alberta (1982–1983), followed by Japanese studies at Osaka Foreign Language University (1983–1984).
He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo (1988) with a thesis on the Japanese automotive industry, and studied and worked in Tokyo, Japan from 1983 to 1994, in Toronto from 1995 to 2000 and once more in Japan, from 2000-2004.
[edit] Business and economics career
He was an equity research director, and Asian regional head at several prominent global investment banks (Deutsche Bank, Jardine Fleming, Lehman Brothers, Richardson Greenshields, RBC Dominion Securities, Toronto Dominion Securities), and Wellington Management (Boston).
His economic forecasts and political analysis led him to appearances in the global television and radio media including the BBC, CNN, CBC, CTV, ABC,[1] CBS,[2] NBC,[3] PBS, and NHK. He had a regular column in the Nikkei Weekly, and the Financial Post, has published in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Asian Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, and National Post, and was often quoted in leading economic newspapers[4] and magazines.
Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at the Peter Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia. He is writing a book entitled 'The Twin Virtues: Inequality of Outcome and Equality of Opportunity' on his website www.excellentfuture.ca. He also provides a daily subscriber service called 'Smart Picks' of his comments on the international media.
[edit] Political career
Following his return to Canada in September 2004, Summerville ran in the 2006 Canadian federal election as a member of the New Democratic Party in the Toronto riding of St. Paul's. The district was given extensive national media coverage[5] in part because of the riding's historical bellwether status, but also because of the profile that the contenders to a strong incumbent provided.[6] The campaign attracted interest in its own right because of the prominence that the national campaign gave a political rookie, and his against-type NDP candidacy.[citation needed] He placed third after Liberal incumbent Carolyn Bennett and Conservative Peter Kent. In September 2006 Summerville joined the federal Liberal Party to give his support to Bob Rae [7] and attended the Liberal convention in Montreal that ultimately elected Stéphane Dion as leader.
Summerville was a candidate for the position of National Policy Chair of the Liberal Party of Canada.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=143659;
- ^ Japan / Economy CBS News broadcast from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive
- ^ Japan / Economy / The Recession NBC News broadcast from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive
- ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/1991/09/07/tank.php; http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0DC113AF936A2575AC0A964958260
- ^ CBC Radio | The Current | Whole Show Blow-by-Blow
- ^ globeandmail.com
- ^ Ivison, John, "Former star candidate abandons NDP for Grits", National Post, September 8, 2006, pg A4; Jeffrey Simpson, “The NDP won't stop preaching to the converted”, Globe and Mail, 9 September 2006 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060909.COSIMP09/PPVStory/?DENIED=1; http://www.bobrae.ca/en/pressreleases.php
- ^ http://convention.liberal.ca/elections/candidates/paul-summerville/
