Director, BCG Centre for Canada’s Future
Toronto
Keith Halliday joined The Boston Consulting Group in 1997. He is the director of BCG’s Centre for Canada's Future and a core member of the global Public Sector and Financial Institutions practices at BCG.
As director of the Centre for Canada's Future, Keith works with Canadian and global BCG experts to identify and analyze Canada's biggest challenges and opportunities. The centre works to move Canada forward by convening leaders across business, government, and nonprofit sectors to work together.
Prior to his current role, Keith was the global segment manager for the Corporate Banking segment of BCG's Financial Institutions practice. He advised clients in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, managed BCG's industry-leading CB Performance Benchmarking program, and led the CB Knowledge team in London, Frankfurt, Chicago, and Delhi.
Before joining BCG, Keith was a foreign service officer with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, where he served at the Mission of Canada to the European Union in Brussels. He has also served as executive assistant to the Premier of the Yukon Territory. He is the author of the MacBride Museum Yukon Kids Series of youth historical adventure novels.
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, BCG takes a look at Canada‘s enormously successful past and bright future. To launch a series of studies advancing a national conversation about Canada’s future we begin with this examination of Canada’s prosperity.
BCG’s Centre for Canada’s Future has assessed the infrastructure landscape in Canada, identifying the drivers of—and solutions to—an infrastructure deficit that has been estimated at more than $250 billion by other thought leaders. This report is part of BCG's support of the CanInfra Challenge and Canadian Transformational Infrastructure Summit.
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