Speaker Profile

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	Biography Kelsey MacDonald is currently the Director of Communications and Public Affairs with the SOGC. Prior to joining the SOGC, Kelsey spent the last decade working in provincial governments in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and most recently on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. During this time, she held various senior positions advising numerous federal ministers on a variety of files – from defence procurement and economic initiatives for small businesses to creating sector-specific supports for the aerospace, air transportation and tourism industries. Notably, as a former senior political staffer, she worked on Canada’s successful procurement of COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics. She also helped to develop a national consultation framework to build the first-ever Rural Economic Development Strategy and Rural Connectivity Strategy. Kelsey serves on the Mount Saint Vincent University Alumni Association Board of Directors and is a national member of the Canadian Public Relations Society. Kelsey has a Bachelor of Public Relations from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, NS. Disclosure

Biography
Kelsey MacDonald is currently the Director of Communications and Public Affairs with the SOGC. Prior to joining the SOGC, Kelsey spent the last decade working in provincial governments in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and most recently on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. During this time, she held various senior positions advising numerous federal ministers on a variety of files – from defence procurement and economic initiatives for small businesses to creating sector-specific supports for the aerospace, air transportation and tourism industries. Notably, as a former senior political staffer, she worked on Canada’s successful procurement of COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics. She also helped to develop a national consultation framework to build the first-ever Rural Economic Development Strategy and Rural Connectivity Strategy. Kelsey serves on the Mount Saint Vincent University Alumni Association Board of Directors and is a national member of the Canadian Public Relations Society. Kelsey has a Bachelor of Public Relations from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, NS.
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