Jaime Watt
Chair and Senior Partner, Navigator Ltd.
Last Contribution:
An Unusually Sexy Week for Canadian Politics
Contributor Biography
Jaime Watt specializes in complex communications issues serving both domestic and international clients in the corporate, professional services, not-for-profit and government sectors. He is recognized as Canada’s leading qualitative public affairs researcher.
He is a trusted advisor to business leaders as well as leaders of political parties and cabinet ministers at all three levels of government across Canada.
Jaime was the senior communications advisor for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the landmark 1995 and 1999 election campaigns. And he has led ground-breaking election campaigns that have transformed politics because of their boldness and creativity.
Jaime is a past chair of Casey House, Canada’s pioneer AIDS hospice, and is deeply involved in efforts to promote equality and human rights issues. He has served on the boards of numerous charitable, and community service organizations including the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars in Washington and St Michael’s Hospital Foundation in Toronto.
In 2003, he was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee medal for service to the community.
A highly regarded speaker, Jaime is a regular panelist on Canada’s premier political affairs television programme, Politics with Don Newman. He also appears on CBC, Global, CTV, and TVO and in the National Post and The Globe and Mail as a commentator on public affairs issues.
