Ken Boessenkool
Ken Boessenkool Currently as Vice President Business Development for Hill & Knowlton Canada, Ken Boessenkool draws on his extensive public and private sector experience to provide strategic counsel and analysis regarding reputation and issues management, communications, regulatory advice, government relations and corporate positioning. With a firm grasp of the public policy process and the issues that face the private sector in dealing with federal and provincial governments, he is able to provide clients strong representation that generates desired results.
Ken has extensive Public Affairs and Communications experience in government, non-profit and corporate sectors. He provides strategic counsel to clients regarding appropriate preparation, response and positioning strategies for a wide variety of corporate, government and not-for-profit initiatives. Prior to joining Hill & Knowlton, Ken was Senior Policy Advisor to National Conservative Leader Stephen Harper. He had responsibility for overall message management for the Conservative Campaign during the 2004 federal election and has served as the senior policy advisor on the winning side of three national leadership races. Prior to working in Ottawa Ken established his own Calgary-based consulting practice, providing strategic and policy advice to government, non-profit and private sector clients, primarily in the electricity industry.
Ken has been a senior regulatory economist with TransAlta and Aquila Canada, two large Calgary-based electricity companies. Ken also served as a policy advisor to two Provincial Treasurers in Alberta. Ken was an Adjunct Research Fellow and Policy Analyst with the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute, and has published over thirty public policy research papers, articles and book chapters in addition to numerous newspaper opinion editorials.
Ken has an undergraduate degree in Management, with majors in Finance and Philosophy from the University of Lethbridge and a graduate degree in Economics from the University of Toronto.