Education
University of British Columbia.
University of British Columbia.
Prior to being elected to this post, he founded the Vancouver investment firm of Phillips, Hager & North. Also in that year, he was elected as an alderman to Vancouver City Council. Under Phillips" mayoral leadership, the city of Vancouver took a more cautious approach to real estate and related development and ensured that environmental and quality-of-life concerns were addressed by city planners.
Phillips was elected to the Parliament of Canada in 1979 as a Liberal, but was defeated the following year in his bid for re-election.
After Phillips" defeat, he returned to private life at his investment firm. By 2007, Phillips, Hager & North had become a leading investment firm on the west coast, with over $66 billion of assets under management.
Phillips was instrumental in founding a reform-minded, centrist municipal-level political party, TEAM (The Electors" Action Movement), in 1968.
During his undergraduate years at the University of British Columbia (Bachelor of Commerce, 1953), Phillips was a member of the British Columbia Alpha chapter of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and was their chapter President in 1950.