Ivan Watson

Position
Ivan Watson leads the mentorship program at UVic’s Peter B. Gustavson School of Business as the Faculty’s Connections Program manager. He has worked in a range of strategic communications, marketing, policy analysis and issues management roles at UVic and Camosun College, the federal and provincial governments in Ottawa and Victoria, the European Union in Brussels and for several community organizations and non-profit groups locally, regionally and nationally. Watson holds a BA in Political Science and History from UVic, an MA in Leadership from Royal Roads University and certificates in Public Relations and Digital Marketing from the University of Toronto.
Watson is an active community leader and served on the national board of United Way/Centraide Canada, as Chair of United Way Southern Vancouver Island and as a B.C. representative for the Canadian Red Cross Society. He is an alumnus and past Vice President of Leadership Victoria, former Communications Director for the Victoria Leadership Awards and past elected member of the Royal Roads University Board of Governors. He previously served for two terms on the UVic Alumni Association Board of Directors.