About Patrick Lennox
Patrick Lennox, PhD
Patrick Lennox is an international relations scholar and former international security practitioner. He has commanded covert intelligence units and conducted national security investigations into malicious forms of foreign investment into Canada. He has been a member of the Five Eyes intelligence community and represented Canada on international law enforcement task forces. He has a deep knowledge of the intelligence cycle and the intelligence to investigations process, and throughout his career in Federal Policing specialized in national security, financial crime, transnational organized crime and threat convergence. Prior to joining the RCMP, he worked as a senior analyst with the Treasury Board Secretariat in the International Affairs and Security and Justice Division, where he oversaw some of the most significant defence and security procurements in the last twenty years, including the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
He authored an influential book on the Canada-US relations and Canada’s place in the world (UBC Press) and led a landmark study on Canadian foreign policy independence (UofT Press). He has published op-eds in The Globe & Mail, Policy Magazine, The National Post, the Hill Times, Diplomat Magazine, and has conducted interviews for national and local television, radio and print media. He has taught graduate and undergraduate level courses at three universities and held postdoctoral fellowships at Dalhousie’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, and the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military and Security Studies.
He was awarded a Southwest Asia Service Medal by the Canadian Armed Forces for work he did in theatre with the Canadian Navy during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2008, during which he became an internationally recognized expert on Somali piracy.
In 2025 he stepped forward as the Liberal Candidate to run to be the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Griesbach in Canada’s 45th General Election.
Lennox is known for his sharp opinions, his diplomacy, his visionary leadership and his ability to navigate in any environment, from the classroom to the bridge of a warship, from the boardroom to the doorsteps of electors.
He holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Toronto and resides in Edmonton with his wife and three children.