Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault will soon be hiring a new chief of staff for his office, with Jamie Kippen preparing to make his exit later this month. Jamie Kippen, right, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photograph courtesy of LinkedIn Kippen was tapped to lead Guilbeault’s office in September 2023 amid the staff shakeup that followed that summer’s cabinet shuffle. He’d previously been chief of staff to then-health minister Jean-Yves Duclos.
He joined the staff ranks on the Hill in May 2022 when he was hired as a policy adviser to then-housing, diversity, and inclusion minister Ahmed Hussen, and was promoted to his most recent title after Fraser took over the housing file following the July 2023 cabinet shuffle. Kyle Fox remains director of policy to Fraser, overseeing senior policy advisers Matthew Paisley and Michael Kurliak, and policy adviser Josh Mbandi. Savannah DeWolfe is chief of staff to the minister.