Taki Sarantakis

Taki Sarantakis is President of the Canada School of Public Service.  Prior to assuming this position in 2018, he served as Associate Secretary of Canada’s Treasury Board, and prior to that as Assistant Deputy Minister of Policy and Communications at Infrastructure Canada.  In 2011 Mr. Sarantakis was awarded Canada's Public Service Award of Excellence in Public Policy, and in 2013 he was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Il Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Outside of the federal public service, Mr. Sarantakis volunteers as an inaugural jurist for the Writer’s Trust of Canada Balsille Prize in Public Policy, and as a member of the Board of Directors of MaRS Discovery District, North America’s largest urban innovation centre.   

Prior to joining the federal government, Mr. Sarantakis was a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. from York University in Toronto, as well as an Executive Certificate in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a graduate of the Rotman School of Management's Institute of Corporate Directors Education Program, holding the ICD.D designation.

Updated February, 2025