John Hayden

For three years, John Hayden was the Northumberland CFDC’s Sector Specialist in Manufacturing and Agribusiness. During this time he worked closely with the Northumberland Manufacturers’ Association, the County of Northumberland, Sabic Innovative Plastics, Horizon Plastics, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Queen’s University (Monieson Centre), OMAFRA (Rural Economic Development) and the Ministry of Research and Innovation (Innovation Demonstration Fund) – among many other regional partners. John has made presentations at the provincial and national level (Ontario Association of CFDCs, Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation) on manufacturing innovation partnership formation and enterprise incubation in rural Ontario.

John was awarded a Masters degree in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in June 2011 and received the H.E. Ghassan Al Rashash Excellence Award in Political Studies (highest GPA) and was co-recipient of the Abdul Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence for his research on the political history of Canadian Foreign Relations-Middle East. He holds a BA in History from the University of Toronto and has previously studied at Birzeit University in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and at the Arabic Language Institute in Fes (ALIF) in Morocco. John has published in the University of Toronto’sTrinity Review and the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Northedge Essay Prize through the LSE Journal of International Relations Theory, Milennium.

John has an established track record of working with local firms to develop global competitive advantage through public-private partnerships in research and development (with a focus on green manufacturing/environmental technologies) and his interest lies in strengthening the historic economic core of local industry in order to retain high-quality jobs in Northumberland. In his present position, and always with a global outlook, John hopes to assist entrepreneurs to establish hi-tech start-ups which will shape the next generation of industries in Northumberland.

John Hayden
Manager, Enterprise Programs
905.372.8315 x224
john.hayden@northumberlandcfdc.ca