Toby Fyfe
Adjunct Professor
Toby Fyfe is a seasoned senior executive with experience in both the public and not-for-profit sectors. As a federal government executive for 19 years, he led central agency and line department organizations, and has extensive experience in government processes and procedures including organizational design and capacity building, organizational performance and public governance.
As President and CEO of the not-for-profit Institute on Governance, he steered the Institute successfully through two crises including the COVID-19 pandemic. He oversaw the development of a robust international practice, including a multi-year Global Affairs Canada project where he worked closely with senior officials in Iraq to assist the government in becoming a decentralized federal state led by an effective public service. Before assuming this role, he was Vice-President of the Learning Lab at the IOG where he led the IOG鈥檚 public sector leadership and capacity-building programs and courses providing tools for, and insights to, executives and officers at all levels of government.
He is on the editorial board of Canadian Public Administration magazine and an Adjunct Professor, Carleton University School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA).
He has an MA from the University of Ottawa and has attended the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education program.