Before establishing PP&M Inc. in 1997, Ivo Krupka acquired more than thirty years’ experience, twenty-three as a senior executive, in the public services of Canada and Australia, initiating and managing successful innovations in public policy.

Early in his career, Mr. Krupka spent six years in the Privy Council Office under two reform-minded Prime Ministers. Much of the challenge was to initiate practical proposals and respond to the Prime Ministers’ extensive demands for new and efficient policies, processes, structures, and legislation. Responding to the challenge required familiarity with virtually all departments and agencies of government, Cabinet decision-making, public service institutions and processes, Parliament, intergovernmental and stakeholder relations, and generally, with the Canadian political process.

Mr. Krupka was the first head of the Machinery of Government unit in the Privy Council Office and Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet Committee on the Public Service chaired by the Prime Minister. He served as Secretary or Assistant Secretary to many other Cabinet Committees including those concerned with social policy, culture, communications, broadcasting, satellite communications, government information, and science policy. He was also responsible for liaison between the Prime Minister and the Governor General.

Following a year as Visiting Professor of public sector management in McGill University’s Faculty of Management, Mr. Krupka returned to the public service where he served as a senior executive in the Departments of Employment and Immigration, External Affairs, Agriculture and Agri-Food, and Health. He also served for two years as a senior executive in Australia’s Department of Employment and Youth Affairs. In each department, Mr. Krupka conceived and implemented innovations in policies, programs, processes, and structures. In most instances, success depended on establishing effective relationships with other governments in Canada and abroad, and with stakeholders in the non-government and private sectors.

Mr. Krupka did his undergraduate and graduate studies in political science and public administration at Queen’s University, and further studies in international affairs at L’Institut d’Études politiques in Paris, France.

Mr. Krupka has been co-organizer and co-editor of the proceedings of five of the international conferences on Statistics, Science and Public Policy held annually at Queen’s University’s Herstmonceux Castle in England.

One of Mr. Krupka’s recent publications is a chapter on the Pest Management Regulatory Agency in Risky Business: Canada’s Changing Science-Based Policy and Regulatory Regime, edited by G. Bruce Doern and Ted Reed, University of Toronto Press (2000).

Mr. Krupka is a former President of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (National Capital Regional Group).

He is Chair of the Canadian Ski Museum and President of Le Club de Pêche Lac Claw.