- Team
- Robin MacLachlan
CONTACT :
- 613.235.1400 x247
- rmaclachlan@summa.ca
Robin MacLachlan
President
Robin MacLachlan is President at Summa Strategies and a Director at Abacus Data. With nearly two decades of public affairs experience, he provides business and non-profit sector leaders with strategic counsel and advocacy to help them achieve their objectives.
His expertise in communications, stakeholder engagement and the legislative process was shaped by his experience as a political staffer. During his time in politics, Robin worked both as a Constituency Assistant and as a Legislative and Communications Advisor on Parliament Hill. He has extensive experience on political campaigns at all levels – some of it even successful!
Robin has worked with civil society and the non-profit sector, developing effective advocacy campaigns for the Rideau Institute on International Affairs. Since joining Summa, he has worked with businesses, industry associations and non-profit organizations covering a broad range of sectors, including energy and the environment, transportation, technology, financial institutions, labour, immigration, public safety, health and sports. A career path through politics, civil society and the private sector has taught him how policy is influenced from inside and outside of government.
Robin is a political strategist and regular commentator on TV, radio and in print for CBC, CTV, Global TV, CFRA, CPAC and the Hill Times, previously as a weekly contributor to the Power Panel on CBC’s Power and Politics. He has provided strategic communications advice to political leaders at all levels of government and offers media training to stakeholders.
Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, out of the office Robin can be found playing football, softball or telling tales of his rugby career while cheering on the Ottawa Irish Rugby Club. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of Rugby Ontario and is on the Steering Committee for Youth Action Now – a Paul Dewar Initiative.
Robin holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) degree in Political Science from McGill University.
