Mark Entwistle, Partner
Mark Entwistle is a Partner with the Endeavor Group, where he provides strategic communications counsel to Endeavor clients. Mark has a rich and integrated mix of professional experience across disciplines, and over more than twenty years, in international affairs and global business, negotiation and diplomacy, strategic communications, media relations, public affairs and advocacy, government relations and operations, and public policy issue management. Beginning in 1989, he acted as Media Spokesperson for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. In 1991, he was seconded to the Prime Minister's Office as Deputy Press Secretary responsible for foreign policy. Months later, he was appointed by former Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, to serve as his Press Secretary and director of communications. In that position, he was responsible directly for all aspects of the Prime Minister's relations with the media and the public communication and marketing of the policies of the Canadian federal government on all issues and across the full range of government departments and agencies. He was at the center of planning across government for all policy matters involving the Prime Minister, including national policy initiatives, and the engagement of the Prime Minister on the international scene, including four G-8 Summits and numerous bilateral visits with foreign Heads of Government. In 1990, he worked as Departmental Assistant for Parliamentary Affairs to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, where he managed the relations between the Minister and all institutions of Parliament. Mr. Entwistle served as Ambassador of Canada to Cuba for four years from 1993-1997, responsible for the historically sensitive relationship with Fidel Castro's Cuba. He served for sixteen years from 1981-1997 in the Canadian diplomatic service, including assignments at the Canadian Embassies in Tel Aviv, Israel (1982-1985) and Moscow (1986-1989).

Mr. Entwistle is a Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, Director of the Canadian Urban Institute, and Executive Director of the Ottawa Parliamentary Forum, an initiative to bring together legislators from the Israeli Knesset and the Palestinian Legislative Council to re-open some channels of communication into Middle East dialogue and reconciliation. He is also Chairman of Upstream Strategies International and Friends without Borders Group, non-governmental organizations involved in conflict prevention and international development. Mr. Entwistle is Director of YM Biosciences Inc., a biotechnology development company specializing in oncology, and of the Coral Capital Group. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Ottawa in 1979 and his Masters degree in History from the University of Toronto in 1981. He speaks three languages fluently: English, French and Spanish, as well as working Russian.