About Me
Tim Mak is a journalist living in Washington, D.C.
Tim currently works as a reporter for FrumForum.com. He’s also a Washington, D.C. contributor to the National Post and a staff writer for the Canadian Student Review.
Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Tim Mak graduated from McGill University as valedictorian, receiving a Joint Honours Political Science and Geography degree.
Described as “a rising star of the conservative movement” by the American Spectator, Tim’s work has been reproduced or referenced by the New York Times, Forbes, CNN and Politico.
Writing Experience
Tim’s reporting experience includes live coverage of the Republican National Committee in Honolulu; bowling with Mitt Romney; the exposure of close to $200,000 of government waste in Geneva; and one of the first out-of-state interviews with then-Senatorial candidate Scott Brown.
His reporting and commentary has been referenced or reproduced in Politico, the New York Times Opinion Blog, Time Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic’s Daily Dish, Newsweek, The Washington Post, National Review Online, RealClearPolitics, U.S. News and World Report, the Toronto Sun and The Hill.
His investigative reporting has also been referenced on CNN and Fox News.
Further, Tim’s work has previously appeared in the National Post, Full Comment, The Ottawa Citizen, the Vancouver Sun, the Western Standard, FrumForum, Métropolitain, Libertas Post, the Canadian Student Review, the McGill Tribune, and the Pearson House Policy Journal.
Work Experience
His political experience includes work in the communications and policy divisions of two Ministers of Foreign Affairs. He was also the communications coordinator and GOTV chair in a successful 2008 campaign for a Member of Parliament.
Tim was a research intern, and later a Koch Summer Fellow, at the American Enterprise Institute in the Office of David Frum. In 2007, Tim was the Donner Canadian Award intern at the Fraser Institute, where he worked on research relating to Canada’s non-profit and voluntary sector. From 2007-2009, he was the Policy Branch Director for Pearson House, a Canadian think-tank.
Outside of politics, Tim has worked as a statistical analyst and fundraising campaign planner for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Awards
In 2009, Tim was presented a Canada’s History Award by Governor General Michaëlle Jean for his essay on Great Canadian Questions, a critique of earlier writings by Michael Ignatieff and Jack Granatstein.
The previous year, along with Richard Norman, Tim won the Fraser Institute’s Student Video Contest with the production of Dog Days. In 2007, Tim won the Canadian Student Review’s Op-Ed contest with ‘Seen a Speakeasy Lately?‘
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