About Bob Ramsay
Bob Ramsay is the president of Ramsay Inc., a Toronto communications and marketing firm.
Bob was born in Edmonton, attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, and graduated from Princeton with a BA in English and from Radcliffe-Harvard with a diploma in publishing.
He was a speechwriter for Ontario Premier Bill Davis, as well as an advertising copywriter and book editor; he’s also written speeches for countless CEOs and corporate leaders, and he teaches executives in major corporations how to write better, present better, persuade more – and pitch to win.
As a comment writer, Bob contributes opinion pieces to The Globe and Mail, Macleans and The Toronto Star on topics ranging from diversity, the arts and bicycling, to healthcare and marathoning. And as a travel writer, he contributes to Canadian Geographic and Reader’s Digest.
During the pandemic, he wrote a blog called The Plague-Ground, which has advanced into the weekly Omnium-Gatherum. Both are at RamsayWrites.
In 2021, he published his memoir, Love or Die Trying: How I Lost It All, Died and Came Back for Love which Wade Davis called “A ruthlessly honest memoir about love, loss and redemption, told with humour, grace, whimsy and wit.”
For over 30 years, he has also organized the speakers’ series, RamsayTalks, which presents some of the leading figures of the age, from Jodi Kantor and Niall Ferguson, to Mark Carney and Susan Rice.
In addition, he is deeply involved with the community. For many years, he was the fundraising chair on the board of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and an executive board member of the Canadian Film Centre. He has also served on the boards of the St. Lawrence Centre, the Women’s College Hospital Foundation, and the Toronto International Festival of Authors, which he also chaired.
He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Medal in 2015; the Bernier Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographic Society in 2017; and the King Charles III Medal in 2025. He is also a member of The Explorers Club in New York. In September 2019, Bob and his wife, Dr. Jean Marmoreo, circumnavigated Manhattan by kayak.
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Love or Die Trying
How I Lost It All, Died, and Came Back for Love
By Bob Ramsay
A ruthlessly honest memoir of love, loss, and redemption
Wade Davis
Love or Die Trying
How I Lost It All, Died, and Came Back for Love
By Bob Ramsay
A ruthlessly honest memoir of love, loss, and redemption
Wade Davis