• Robin Sears

    Senior Partner

About Robin

Robin Sears is a senior communications and public affairs advisor with experience on three continents. Robin has led client teams in healthcare, financial services, media and in international democratic development.

As national director of the New Democratic Party, Sears built their policy making infrastructure, first issues publication, and first national direct mail fundraising . As national campaign director he managed their three most successful national elections.

Deputy Secretary General of the world’s largest organization of political parties, under German Chancellor Willy Brandt, he was responsible for communications, finance, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Robin worked with leaders in the Middle East, Central America, and Southern Africa

As Chief of Staff to Bob Rae, during the “Accord” government he managed the relationship between the Peterson cabinet and the NDP. As Ontario’s senior diplomatic representative in Asia, he managed seven offices from Tokyo to India, promoting trade, investment and tourism.

For a global executive search firm, Robin managed regional and global practices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Toronto. He was the first Asia president of the pioneering digital search firm, Futurestep, for two of those years. He is a senior writer for Policy Options magazine, Canada’s leading policy journal, and a regular guest on CBC Newsworld’s Politics.

Navigator Insights

  • 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.
  • It takes a hardened individual not to pity poor Murphy, from whom the eponymous “fourth law of thermodynamics” takes its name. However, those of us that deal with crisis see the adage in practice on a surprisingly regular basis. Which brings me to a conundrum. Twitter. 

In Canada there are 413 parliamentarians (including the house [...]

Contact

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Direct: (416) 642-6437
Email: rsears @ navltd.com