Shirley Phillips has over twenty-two years of experience with the Ontario Public Service, and has served in various ministries across the provincial government. She became the Ontario Public Service Fellow at Ryerson University in July 2012. As Assistant Deputy Minister of the Planning and Operations Division in the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, Shirley currently oversees the provincial relationship between the ministry and its agencies, providing strong strategic policy direction and ensuring sound governance, accountability and sustainability. She manages a variety of revitalization initiatives and provides executive leadership to major provincial redevelopment and infrastructure projects. Shirley is also responsible for direct operational management of two tourism attractions (Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay and Huronia Historical Parks in Midland and Penetangueshine). As the lead ADM on the current Ontario Place Revitalization project, Shirley is working with multiple partners and stakeholders to develop plans for the future of the waterfront site. She has also been serving as the Interim General Manager of Ontario Place, directing the wind-down of the corporation and leading organizational restructuring and contract negotiations to effect the partial closure of the site which was announced by the government in February 2012. Through her many years managing large agency portfolios in both the culture and tourism sectors on behalf of the province, Shirley has developed expertise in agency-government relations, board governance in public sector organizations, and provincial policies impacting agencies, including the accountability framework. She has led provincial negotiations for several major agency transformation projects, including the Renaissance ROM redevelopment, the AGO expansion, the Ottawa Convention Centre rebuild. Over the course of her career in the Ontario Public Service, Shirley has held progressive positions in policy and program development in various parts of the provincial government, including Citizenship, Culture and Recreation, where she played a lead policy role in legislative reform of the public library sector, and Management Board Secretariat, where she was the Senior Project Manager for Restructuring Internal Administration across the government. Shirley holds BA in French Language, Literature and Translation and an MA in Information Science (both from the University of Toronto), as well as a General Academic Studies degree from the Université d’Aix-Marseille in Provence, France. She is fluently bilingual. She has two daughters who are currently university students and she lives in Toronto.
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