Bob Plamondon

Bob Plamondon (born December 8, 1957 in Cornwall, Ontario) is an independent board member and consultant.

Plamondon earned a Masters of Management Studies and B. Comm. (Honours) from Carleton University. In 1983, he became a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and was elected Fellow (FCPA) in 2003. In 2018, he completed the Rotman-ICD Directors Education Program. His work experience includes over 25 years as an independent consultant; full and part-time professorship at three universities over a twenty-year period; and authorship of numerous public policy studies and reports.

In 2019, Plamondon was appointed by the Government of Ontario to the board of directors of OPTrust, where he sits on the Governance and Audit committees. OPTrust holds about $22 billion in assets, which funds the pension plan for about 100,000 members of OPSEU and its retirees. Plamondon was appointed by the Government of Canada in 2014 to the board of directors of the National Capital Commission where he served as chair of the audit committee and on the executive committee. In 2017, he was elected by the NCC Board of Directors to serve as interim chair. His term on the NCC board concluded in June 2018. He currently sits on the advisory board of the Digital Academy of the Canada School of Public Service as well as the boards of the National Portrait Gallery, Ottawa Business Events, and the Ottawa chapter of the Sir Winston Churchill Society.

In 2019, Plamondon conceived and launched The Prime Ministers Series - a partnership of the University of Ottawa and the Canada School of Public Service. Delivering Transformative Change for Canadians with the Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney was held in Ottawa on March 5, 2019, in front of over 500 aspiring and senior public servants. Jean Chretien was featured prime minister on March 3, 2020 and was interviewed by Plamondon. In 2018, Plamondon launched an initiative to establish the Wellington National Mall in the Parliamentary Precinct. Other community contributions include serving on the board of directors of the Sierra Club of Canada, committees of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, and the YMCA. In 1988, Plamondon ran for federal Parliament as a Progressive Conservative. In 2012, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Also in 2012, he led a campaign that resulted in the renaming of the Ottawa River Parkway to the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway.