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June 25, 2008
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CCA’s Morrison moves to Association of Canadian Engineering Companies
The Association of Canadian Engineering Companies (ACEC) has chosen Jeff Morrison as its new president and chief operating officer, beginning July 14, 2008.
Morrison currently is executive director of TRIP/Canada and director of government relations and public affairs at the Canadian Construction Association (CCA). He joined that association in 2000.
“We’ve known Jeff through his work on common files and in particular, the FixOurHighways.ca project, which the two associations jointly initiated a few years ago,” said ACEC chair Leon Botham.
Jeff Morrison
The search committee felt that Morrison’s understanding of the consulting engineering industry, his ideas on potential areas in which ACEC could assume a leadership role and his profile in Ottawa made him the best candidate for the position, Botham said.
At CCA, Morrison also serves as permanent secretary to the environment committee and the roadbuilders and heavy construction council.
He was chosen for the ACEC position from a field of eight candidates.
“I’ve worked with ACEC since I started at CCA,” said Morrison, who was hired initially as the association’s director of communications and now is responsible in part for its lobbying activities.
“It’s a well respected professional association. I saw this as a good opportunity to assume a leadership position with an organization that I knew well and that was dealing with a lot of the same issues as CCA.
“Fundamentally, there are probably more similarities in the issues faced by the two organizations than there are differences.”
Prior to joining CCA, Morrison spent six years on Parliament Hill working for various MPs.
He has a degree in political science from the University of Ottawa.
At ACEC, he replaces Claude Paul Boivin who left earlier this month to become executive director of the Canadian Dental Association. ACEC represents 600 consulting engineering firms and 11 provincial and territorial organizations.
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