{"id":31534,"date":"2021-09-12T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=31534"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:36:01","slug":"alum-andrew-retfalvi","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/alum-andrew-retfalvi\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Retfalvi"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"andrew-retfalvivice-president-health-life-sciences-ontario-at-global-public-affairs\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29000\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Retfalvi_Andrew_800px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Retfalvi_Andrew_800px.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Retfalvi_Andrew_800px-160x224.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Retfalvi_Andrew_800px-240x336.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Retfalvi_Andrew_800px-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Retfalvi_Andrew_800px-400x560.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Retfalvi_Andrew_800px-360x504.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><br>\nAndrew Retfalvi<br>\n<strong>Vice President, Health &amp; Life Sciences, Ontario at Global Public Affairs<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BA in Political Science with Honours, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew is a respected and dedicated senior government relations leader with Global Public Affairs, Canada\u2019s leading government relations and strategic communications firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has experience in political activism at all three levels of government and leads a portfolio of health and life sciences clients focused on business-critical public policy issues across Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused on effective and efficient communications between business and government, Andrew leads provincially-focused government and stakeholder relations programs for clients, focusing on market access, product reimbursement and innovation adoption. Based in Toronto, he leads mandates across the country, but is primarily focused on Ontario &amp; Atlantic Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew has been at Global since 2014, and previously worked at the Courts Administration Service in Ottawa, where he coordinated immigration litigation matters for members of the judiciary. He also has a Post-Graduate Certificate in Public Relations from Toronto\u2019s Humber College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ offered me a unique opportunity to study political science in a practical setting, being in the nation\u2019s capital and so close to the action on Parliament Hill. ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´\u2019s faculty has firsthand experience working within Canada\u2019s political systems, and they helped shape my career trajectory to get me where I am today.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Andrew","cu_people_last_name":"Retfalvi","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[54,101],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-31534","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-ba"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34116,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31534\/revisions\/34116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=31534"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=31534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}