Gen. Andrew Leslie
: Senior Fellow
Expert Overview
Lt-General (ret’d) the Honourable Andrew Leslie, PC, CMM, MSC, MSM, CD, RCA, MA, D.Mil.Sci.(hc) was a soldier and led the 57,000 people of the Canadian Army in fires, floods, earthquakes, security missions, peacekeeping and war (Cyprus, Germany, Croatia, Serbia, Afghanistan and elsewhere), being awarded national and international honours and decorations. He has also been a Senior Vice President of a very large multinational corporation, a Federal Member of Parliament, the Chief Government Whip, the Parliamentary Secretary focused on Canada-US Relations and Trade during the time of NAFTA and Trump (interacting with various senior military colleagues and U.S. State Governors) and was included on various Federal cabinet committees.
He now sits on several corporate and charitable boards and engages in public speaking on the impact of totalitarian regimes on trade patterns, supply chain fragility in the remerging age of superpower confrontation, and the looming spectre of global war and what it might mean for Canada and the world. Andrew was educated at Ottawa University (BA), the Royal Military College (MA) where he was also conferred a Doctorate, various Military Staff Colleges, and both the Harvard Business School and the Rotman School of Business. Fluently bilingual, he lives in Ottawa.
