Jeffrey Leiper (born 1970) is the current

Ottawa city councillor The Ottawa City Council (french: Conseil municipal d'Ottawa) is the governing body of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is composed of 24 city councillors and the mayor. The mayor is elected At-large, at large, while each councillor repr ...

for

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. He was first elected in the

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, defeating the incumbent

Katherine Hobbs Katherine Hobbs is a former Ottawa City Council, Ottawa city councillor of Kitchissippi Ward. She won the ward in the 2010 Ottawa municipal election, defeating the incumbent Christine Leadman, and was defeated by Jeff Leiper in 2014. Hobbs lived ...

. Leiper was born and raised in

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. He studied History and English at the

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, and Print Journalism at

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. As a youth, Leiper was a member of the youth wing of the

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, though he is now a committed progressive. Leiper first ran for office as a 24 year old in the 1994 municipal elections for a seat on Cumberland Township Council. At the time he was still attending the University of Ottawa. He ran on a platform of higher density developments, the completion of a north-south link between then Highway 17 (now Highway 174) and Highway 417 (which was never built), more parks and the completion of a library. Running in Ward 2, covering the southern section of Orleans, he won just 3% of the vote. He has lived in

since 1995 when he and his spouse Natalie moved into the Julian Apartments in the Wellington West area. Today, he lives in

Hintonburg Hintonburg is a neighbourhood in Kitchissippi Ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located west of the Downtown core. It is a historically working-class, predominantly residential neighbourhood, with a commercial strip located along Wellington Street ...

with Natalie and their son. Leiper has a long background working with the

Community Association, where he served as its president. He has also worked with the volunteer-run community newspaper Newswest in the ward. For many years, he created and organized events such as the Cyclelogik Hintonburg 5k Run/Walk and Newswest Kids 1K, Dog Movie Night and the annual Hintonburg Street Hockey Tournament. His community work includes a significant background in planning, traffic, economic development, and other neighbourhood and citywide issues. Professionally, Leiper began his career in the Information and Communications Technology sector as a journalist. He subsequently worked as an industry analyst for an international consulting firm, then as an executive in a federal regulatory agency. Prior to his election, he worked as an executive at an NGO with a mandate to promote the full participation by all Canadians including women, youth, and internationally educated professionals in the technology workforce.

Electoral record

References

External links

Ward WebsiteOfficial City of Ottawa BiographyPersonal siteTwitter account
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