David Sloly

Biography:

DAVID SLOLY is Principal Consultant at DAAS Consulting, which for two decades has provided strategic planning, project management and operations support to NGOs, charitable foundations, academic institutions and political campaigns.

He has worked nomination, election and leadership campaigns at the municipal, provincial and federal levels, including as Ontario Youth Chair of the 1990 leadership campaign of one of Canada’s longest-serving prime ministers. Since 2002 he has helped organize more than fifty public policy conferences and events with Tom Axworthy’s Ginger Group, the InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and Government, and the Massey College Public Policy Program. He has helped organize every Walter Gordon Symposium since 2022.

David served as Executive Director of the International Development and Relief Foundation, reviving its finances and programs after CIDA funding cuts had driven its board to suspend operations. As Manager of Resource Development and IT at the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, he rebuilt the technology behind its first major public engagement and fundraising push. At Seneca College he chaired the interdepartmental task forces behind several college-wide learning and information systems.

He has sat on the boards of Transforming Faces and South Asia Partnership Canada, and was recognized for that work in 2004 by the Hon. George Fernandes, then Defence Minister of India. For Transforming Faces he reviewed the business processes of a network of clinics and hospitals across nine countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, identifying changes that improved patient outcomes.

David’s first job in the sector was running an alumni tracing and telemarketing team of seventy for Osgoode Hall Law School’s Centennial Campaign. Despite the 1990–1991 recession, his team exceeded it fundraising target.

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