Leslie Seidle is Research Director for the Diversity, Immigration and Integration program at the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), Senior Program Advisor with the Forum of Federations and a public policy consultant. He previously held senior positions in the Government of Canada, including director general of Strategic Policy and Research, Intergovernmental Affairs in the Privy Council Office (1996-2002).

He was Research Director (Governance) at IRPP (1992-96) and Senior Research Coordinator for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing (1990-91). He is the author of Rethinking the Delivery of Public Services to Citizens (IRPP, 1995) and numerous articles on immigration issues, electoral and constitutional reform, public management and political finance. Seidle has edited/co-edited 13 books, including Immigrant Integration in Federal Countries (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012) and Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada (IRPP, 2007). He holds a D Phil from the University of Oxford.