Robert Carman
Ward 3
Retired President of Nanrac & Associates Ltd., a firm specialized in public policy consulting to the private sector and governments, Bob brings over thirty years of Ontario government experience to the NHH Board, as well as private sector experience in Alberta and Ontario. Chair of the Board's CEO Evaluation and Compensation Committee in 2018/19, Carman also serves on the Board's Facilities and Campus Development as well as Nominating Committees.
A forester by training, Bob’s public service career began in the 1950s with the Department of Lands and Forests. From 1964 to 1968 he was chief silviculturist with Alberta’s Northwestern Pulp and Power. Bob returned to Ontario to take a senior position in the forestry ministry. In 1978 he was appointed deputy minister of Ontario’s Ministry of Community and Social Services where he implemented a major delegation of authority and decentralisation of services to regional and area offices. In 1982 he was transferred to the Management Board of Cabinet as deputy minister and secretary. In this role he introduced a program of enhanced accountability for deputy ministers in the Ontario Public Service. Bob was appointed Secretary of the Policy and Priorities Board of Cabinet in 1985 and, from there, Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council where he expanded his accountability programs.
Retired from the public service in 1990, Bob co-chaired the Quebec/Ontario Rapid Train Task Force, served as a senior vice president at Weston Foods—where he was again involved in the implementation of a total quality management initiative—and held a vice chairman role in a national government relations firm. Bob’s board experience includes a nine-year term on the board of directors of a 475-bed Toronto area hospital, a board he chaired from 2005 to 2008. Bob is a member of the Order of Canada (1995), an honoree of the Public Policy Forum and a recipient of the Vanier Medal from the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. He lives in Cramahe Township.
* = ex officio (appointed by virtue of their office)
Board members serve from one of three wards:
Ward 1 is the Municipality of Port Hope
Ward 2 is the Town of Cobourg
Ward 3 is all other townships within the Hospital’s West Northumberland catchment area (Hamilton, Cramahe and Alnwick/Haldimand)