Drew Fagan

Drew Fagan has taught at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as a professor since 2018 and is involved in various policy and research initiatives at the University of Toronto. He was a visiting professor at Yale University in the 2025/26 school year.

Drew is also 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 Ottawa bureau chief, editorial page editor, associate editor of Report on Business and Washington correspondent.

Drew has served on government panels and written reports and studies on Canada-U.S. relations, Canadian public policy, and infrastructure planning and delivery. He writes and speaks regularly in the Canadian and international media. He has been a board member of numerous government agencies and public interest organizations.