Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Clay Riddell honours Carlton University with $15M donation

Clay's work throughout his career, professionally and personally are unrivaled. My last assignment was with MGM Energy Corp., one of Clay's company's. The nature of the man behind the scenes is front and center throughout his organizations!

Calgary's Clayton Riddell hands Carleton University $15M donation

Founder and chief of Paramount Resources

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In November, 2009, 35 people received the Order of Canada in a ceremony with Governor General Michaelle Jean. Clayton Riddell of Calgary became an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Photograph by: Archive, Calgary Herald

OTTAWA — A Calgary businessman gave Carleton University a historic $15 million donation to create a new masters program aimed at the hundreds of ministerial aides who roam Parliament Hill and other corridors of power with no training and little accountability.

The university's benefactor is Clayton Riddell, founder and CEO of Paramount Resources Ltd., whose donation is the single largest in Carleton's history and will create Canada's first "political management" program to improve politics with better training for political staffers, advisers, campaigners and office-holders.

"The people who staff the corridors of political power should be as educated in the rigours of their jobs as are public servants and journalists," said Chris Dornan, director of Carleton's Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs.

The one-year program will be patterned after similar ones at George Washington University and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The first class will begin in September 2011.

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