Megan McCaffery is Chief of Staff for the Ministry of Affordability and Utilities, replacing Jon Dziadyk, who departed the ministry in June 2024.
McCaffery has a partisan background, formerly running as a candidate in Calgary-Elbow for the Wildrose Party in 2015, and in 2018 failed to win a nomination race for the UCP in the riding of Calgary-Buffalo.
McCaffery’s other past roles are similarly political. She formally served as the Executive Director of Common-Sense Calgary, a non-affiliated advocacy group that pushes for libertarian and fiscally conservative policies at the municipal level. She additionally has experience as Director of Operations of the Alberta Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank based in Calgary. Her husband, Peter McCaffery, founded the Alberta Institute with support from the Manning Center, now named the Canada Strong & Free Network.