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Adam Giambrone is a Toronto City Councillor representing Ward 18, Davenport. A lifelong resident of Davenport, he was first elected to public office in 2003, after years of community activism and local involvement.
He is a politician, archaeologist, and the youngest member of Toronto City Council. As a TTC commissioner and recently as chair of the TTC, Giambrone has ambitious goals for increasing TTC ridership and improving service.
He served as chair of the city's working group, the meeting management initiative, whose task was to design a more open and effective city council. As chair of the Toronto cycling committee, Adam has fought for new funding, and ensured that cycling stays on the city agenda. On the city's works committee and as vice- chair of the public works and infrastructure committee, Giambrone helped develop solutions to Toronto's garbage problem, and promote recycling and organic collection. He serves on a number of other committees and boards, including the e-City Committee, the board of Exhibition Place, and Toronto French committee. Fluent in French and Arabic, Giambrone completed his B.A. in Anthropology and African Studies from McGill University, and continued on to graduate studies at the University of Toronto. As a young community activist and leader, he was vice-president of his OPSEU local at the Royal Ontario Museum.
His work as an archaeologist has taken him to Libya, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen, Uganda and Guatemala..
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