Peter Holle

eter Holle is the founding President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an award-winning western Canadian based public policy think tank.  Since its founding in 1999, Frontier has brought a distinctive and influential Prairie voice to regional and national debates over public policy in areas such as core public sector reform, housing, poverty, aboriginals, consumer-focused health care performance, equalization, rural policy and much more.  Of the nearly 100 recognized think tanks in Canada, Frontier is one of only 5 to make the 2008 global "Go-To Think Tanks" list published by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Mr. Holle  has worked extensively with public sector reform and has provided advisory services to various governments across Canada and the United States. As a senior policy advisor during the 1980s he was closely involved with the reform of public services and asset management in Saskatchewan. Between 1993 and 1995 he was the founding director of the Manitoba Taxpayers Association and was instrumental in helping design Manitoba's balanced budget legislation. His publications have appeared in various newspapers and journals including dozens of daily newspapers, the National Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Holle is a board member of Civitas, an organization which promotes an understanding of the principles of free and ordered society and a member of various other organizations including the Mont Pelerin Society, an international organization of classical liberals.