Mark Maloney
Research Analyst

Mark Maloney is a member of Global’s municipal practice team in Toronto, with special responsibility for projects across Canada.

Mark has extensive municipal experience, having worked for two Toronto Mayors, Barbara Hall, and Mel Lastman.

Mark served in Lastman’s office as Coordinator of Research, Outreach & Special Projects, as well as being staff liaison to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities “Big City Mayors’ Caucus”. He was responsible for Mayoral outreach efforts in the Black, Chinese, Muslim, South Asian, Italian, Portugese, and Gay & Lesbian communities, among others.

Mark was also the initial staff contact charged with working – in conjunction with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese – to secure the World Youth Days event for Toronto. Held in 2002, it was the largest single conference / meeting event in the City’s history, generating an economic impact to the city of over $100 million.

Mark is fluently bilingual, and was educated in French-language schools in Ottawa, where he served for nine years on Ottawa City Council. He was Vice-Chair of the Planning Committee, served as a member of the Regional Executive Committee.

He also chaired the Board of Health – where he led the major community drive to bring in a “911” emergency telephone service (which Ottawa did not have), as well as a province-wide paramedic ambulance system, and a comprehensive school-based mass CPR training program.

In addition, Mark has also served as a reporter, researcher and news editor with Ottawa’s CHUM Network radio station, and with the CTV affiliate station in Ottawa, CJOH-Television.

After returning to school, and while completing a certificate in Corporate Communications in British Columbia, Mark also worked with the Mayor of Vancouver’s re-election campaign, and has a wide knowledge of both the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and its lower mainland municipalities.

In 2003, Mark wrote a book “A Political Guide to the New City of Montreal” for Urban Intelligence – an inside look at their new city – post-amalgamation. He is presently working on another book “A History of the Mayors of Toronto”

Mark is a member of Metropolitan United Church, in the city’s downtown core.

Telephone: 416-597-3481
Email: mmaloneyglobalpublic.com