Daniel Pujdak

Fellow

Daniel Pujdak is the chief strategy officer at Blackbird Strategies, an Ottawa-based public affairs firm specializing in working with businesses, associations, Indigenous communities and others who are advocating for change.

Daniel’s career has focused on advancing reconciliation through inclusive policy and regulatory regimes. His policy work has focused on self-determination, governance, northern affairs, fisheries and natural resources.

Daniel was the executive director of Coeuraj, a transformation practice focused on building a more inclusive, collaborative and sustainable world, from 2020 to 2022, and the director of eastern and northern Canada for Creative Fire from 2019 to 2020.

Prior to that, Daniel served as director of policy to the federal minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. He was also senior advisor for strategic policy and intergovernmental affairs to the Chiefs of Ontario, where he co-negotiated a political accord between the Government of Ontario and First Nations in Ontario and represented Chiefs of Ontario on the bi-national Great Lakes Executive Committee.

Daniel sits as a director on the boards of the Ottawa Arts Council and the Bess and Moe Greenberg Family Hillel Lodge. He is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Originally from Long Island, New York, he is a proud fan of the New York Mets.

Dan holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a master’s degree in marine management from Dalhousie University.

Daniel joined PPF as a Fellow in 2019.

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