Jerry Grafstein

Who is Jerry Grafstein?

Jerry S. Grafstein, B.A., J.D., Q.C., is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and former politician, who served on the Senate of Canada from 1984 to 2010. Grafstein was the longest serving member of the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He served as Co-Chair of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group and as a Senior Officer of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly for over a decade.

Grafstein is a former Partner of Minden Gross LLP, a prominent business law firm in Toronto in Communications Law, Corporate Financing and Administrative Law.

Grafstein is also known as one of the founders of CityTV, MTV-Multilingual, YTV, and a series of other media companies in Canada, the United States, South America and Europe. He served on the board of several enterprises including Petro-Canada.