• Jaime Watt

    Executive Chairman & Senior Partner

About Jaime

Jaime Watt is Executive Chairman and Senior Partner of Navigator Ltd. and a Principal at Ensight Canada. He specializes in complex public strategy issues, serving both domestic and international clients in the corporate, professional services, not-for-profit, and government sectors.‬

‪He is a trusted advisor to business leaders as well as leaders of political parties at all three levels of government across Canada. Jaime has led ground-breaking election campaigns that have transformed politics because of their boldness and creativity.‬

‪Jaime is the president of the Canadian Club of Toronto, Canada’s oldest podium of record, and serves on the boards of many organizations including the Canada Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation in Toronto, and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. As well, he chairs the Capital Campaign for Casey House, Canada’s pioneer AIDS hospice.‬

Deeply involved with efforts to promote equality and human rights issues, he was the inaugural recipient of Egale’s Lifetime Achievement Award and has been awarded the Queen’s Jubilee medal for service to the community. Jaime has also been elected to the College of Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.‬

‪A highly regarded speaker, Jaime appears regularly as a public affairs commentator in the media including weekly on both the CBC News Network’s popular Power and Politics programme, and its flagship news programme The National with Peter Mansbridge.‬

Jaime's Insights

Jaime Watt on Political Traction – Week of December 13, 2011 On Political Traction, Navigator’s Jaime Watt and CBC’s Evan Solomon discuss the common and not-so-common threads in the conversations happening in Ottawa and around kitchen tables across Canada. This week, Jaime and Evan take a closer look at the U.S.-Canada border deal,Attawapiskat, the Durban Conference on the Kyoto Protocol, and Minister McKay’s helicopter usage. Introducing Political Traction Political Traction looks at the common threads in the conversation happening in Ottawa and across the country. Navigator is monitoring a variety of mediums 24 hours a day, seven days a week to aggregate data on what is being talked about, where it’s being talked about, and who is talking about it. Using a standardized methodology, we’ve created a point-based system to weigh conversation on public affairs topics, and build a weekly profile of what’s being said. Watt to MPs: Stop the silly stunts and focus on the economy Jaime Watt was interviewed by The Mark News to discuss the economy:

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Email: jwatt @ navltd.com