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F. Leslie Seidle, Senior Research Associate

Leslie Seidle is Senior Research Associate at IRPP. He was previously Senior Director, National and International Research, at Elections Canada. He has served as Director General, Strategic Policy and Research, Intergovernmental Affairs, in the Privy Council Office, Government of Canada (1996-2002), Research Director (Governance) at IRPP (1992-96) and Senior Research Coordinator for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing (1990-91). Dr. Seidle is the author of Rethinking the Delivery of Public Services to Citizens (IRPP, 1995) and numerous articles on electoral reform, citizen participation, constitutional reform, public management and political finance. He co-edited Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada (IRPP, 2007) and the comparative volume Reforming Parliamentary Democracy (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003).