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Chris G. Jones

Independent Candidate in Ottawa Centre

Chris Jones lives in Ottawa with his wife Philippa and their three children. He first came to Ottawa in 1982 from BC to work as an aide to the Federal Minister of the Environment. Aside from a seven-year spell living in Europe and two years residing in Kingston, he has remained in Ottawa since. In the late 1990s, he spent two years as a political aide to the Leader of the Federal New Democratic Party on Parliament Hill. He worked in association management through the 2000s and spent four years recently as the executive director & CEO of a national, not-for-profit association devoted to the physical health and well-being of children and youth in the Canadian K-12 education system. In the past year he was director of a program that provided meals to food-insecure families and individuals in the Westboro/Wellington West area of Ottawa.

Chris earned a bachelor’s degree at Queen’s University and then did a master’s degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he wrote a thesis on economic planning. He later earned a Doctorate at the University of Oxford in political economy. Reach him at: jonescp36@gmail.com

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