Career
Before entering politics, Wilkinson was a constitutional negotiator and businessman who spent twenty years in the private sector, mainly with green technology companies. Wilkinson was born in Sault Ste. Marie and grew up in Saskatoon.
He was the former leader of the New Democratic Party"s youth wing in Saskatchewan.
Wilkinson earned his bachelor"s degree from the University of Saskatchewan and became a Rhodes Scholar. He earned master"s degrees in international relations, politics, and economics from Oxford and McGill.
Wilkinson was an advisor to Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow and served in the provincial civil service from 1991 to 1995, when he joined Bain & Company"s Toronto branch. In 1999, he relocated to Vancouver to work for QuestAir Technologies, a gas purification company and he became its Chief Executive Officer in 2002.
In 2009, he became the senior vice-president for business development in Nexterra Systems, a biomass company.
In 2011, Wilkinson became the Chief Executive Officer of BioTeQ Environmental Technologies, a water treatment company based in Vancouver. Wilkinson was nominated as the Liberal candidate for North Vancouver in the 2015 federal election in June 2014.
