Drew Fagan

Drew Fagan has been a Professor at the Munk School since 2018, teaching in Munk graduate degree programs. He is now teaching in the  undergraduate program too. He also is involved in various policy and research initiatives at the Munk School and elsewhere at UofT.  He spent the 2025/26 academic year as a Visiting Professor at Yale University, where he was the Fulbright Foundation Fellow.

Drew is a Senior Advisor at Vantage Canada, a government affairs, public policy and strategic communications firm with offices in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

Drew previously spent 12 years in leadership positions with the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario.

With Ontario, he was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport with responsibility for the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. With the federal government, he was Assistant Deputy Minister for strategic policy and planning at what is now Global Affairs Canada.

Before becoming a public servant, he worked at The Globe and Mail, including as Parliamentary Bureau Chief, Editorial Page Editor, Associate Editor of Report on Business and Washington Correspondent.

Drew has served on numerous government panels and written many reports and studies, especially on Canada-U.S. relations, Canadian public policy and international relations, and national infrastructure policy and delivery. He writes and speaks regularly in the Canadian and international media. He also has been a board member of numerous government agencies and public interest organizations. His focus now is on the renewal and expansion of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

Drew holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University and a Master of Arts degree from Western University. He received his ICD.D designation from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, in 2017.