Adam Daifallah

Adam Daifallah is a Senior Managing Director of Teneo, the global CEO advisory firm, with responsibility for Teneo’s Montreal office. He was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of HATLEY Strategy Advisors, a Montreal-based public affairs firm, from 2010 until 2020, when HATLEY was acquired by Teneo.

Prior to HATLEY, Adam practised law at the Montreal office of Norton Rose Fulbright (then Ogilvy Renault), sat on the editorial board of the National Post in Toronto, and was a Washington, D.C. correspondent of The New York Sun. He is co-author of two books on Canadian politics.

In the voluntary sector, Adam is Vice President of Golf Canada, where he chairs the Compensation Committee. He is a director of Dunham House and a member of the Management Committee of the Mount Royal Club. He has previously served as Chairman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and of SecondStreet.org and as a director of the Fondation du CHUM (University of Montreal Hospital Foundation), the Montreal Cancer Institute, the Schmeelk Canada Foundation, the Naval Museum of Quebec, and other organizations. He is also a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Adam is a law graduate of Université Laval, has a BA (honours) in history and political studies from Queen’s University and was a Sauvé Scholar at McGill University. He is a member of the Quebec Bar.