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Most recently acting as Senior Communications Advisor to Ontario’s Minister of the Environment at Queen’s Park, Anne’s mandate for the past two years has been to build awareness of the McGuinty Liberals’ record as the ‘greenest’ sub-national government in Canada and develop the positioning for the government’s Climate Change plan.
As principal of AOH communications, Anne’s major engagements have been both diverse challenging. For the Toront03 Alliance, a post-SARS, US-focused emergency marketing initiative formed to regenerate Toronto’s tourism economy in 2003-04, Anne was responsible for strategic public relations and publicity for high profile projects funded by Toront03 including “The Rolling Stones Concert for Toronto” [July 2003] and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien in Toronto” [February 2004] as well as travel and tourism-specific regional media relations initiatives focused on the northeast United States.
Other notable clients include Sirius Satellite Radio, Alliance Atlantis Communications for which she served as Acting VP, Corporate Communications in 2002-03, and the award-winning Toro Magazine, which she launched. Her clients have also included Hudson’s Bay Company, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Red Apple Entertainment, The Cosmopolitan Toronto, North York General Hospital and Interbrand Tudhope.
During the 90s, as VP, Communications for Paragon Entertainment, a publicly traded film and television company with offices in Toronto, Los Angeles and London (HandMade Films), Anne was responsible for corporate communications and brand development as well as program publicity for Paragon’s television division.
Prior to Paragon, Anne worked for the Walt Disney Company in Paris, developing creative strategy and producing advertising in support of the multi-lingual, pan- European launch of EuroDisney. During her formative experience as a copywriter at Vickers and Benson Advertising in Toronto, Anne won awards for her work in both print and broadcast.
Educated bilingually in Ottawa, Washington D.C. and Lausanne, Switzerland, Anne is a graduate of Trinity College, University of Toronto (Honours B.A., Liberal Arts). She began her career as a TV news writer/reporter with Global Television News in Toronto.
As a journalist, Anne O’Hagan has contributed to The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Saturday Night, Toronto Life, Toronto Life Fashion, Toro, Flare, Destinations, View on Color, W, Condé Nast Traveler, Fashion Television and CBC-TV.
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