Frédéric Mérand

Frédéric Mérand is professor and chair of the department of political science at Université de Montréal. He is the author of The Political Commissioner: A European Ethnography (Oxford, 2021).

Régis Coursin

RĂ©gis Coursin est chercheur postdoctoral au Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al (CÉRIUM).

Julia Szwarc

Julia Szwarc is a master’s student in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa, where she focuses on broadcasting policy, environmental communication and digital media.

Trevor Deley

Trevor Deley is a PhD candidate in e-business at the University of Ottawa. He has a BSc in neuroscience and an MSc in biology and data science and was a software developer at IBM.

Maya Raic

Maya Raic est prĂ©sidente-directrice gĂ©nĂ©rale de la Chambre de l’assurance de dommages (ChAD). DĂ©tentrice d’une maĂźtrise en sciences politiques et d’une maĂźtrise en administration des affaires, elle a plus de 30 ans d’expĂ©rience dans le secteur public et dans le monde associatif Ă  titre de gestionnaire.

Derek Ireland

Derek Ireland has been a senior economist and manager in Canada’s public and private sectors for five decades. Ireland was Director of Economics and International Affairs at the Competition Bureau, and Director of Research and Acting Director General at the Office of Consumer Affairs in Industry Canada.

Marina Pavlovic

Marina Pavlovic is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, and a member of its Centre for Law, Technology and Society. Her work focuses on consumer rights in the digital economy.

Peter Dietsch

Peter Dietsch, a professor in the philosophy department at the University of Victoria, works on questions of economic ethics. He is the author of Catching Capital: The Ethics of Tax Competition (2015).

Michael Jenkin

Michael Jenkin has served as a senior policy and research manager with the Government of Canada for over thirty years, including 15 years as Director General of the Office of Consumer Affairs at Industry Canada. Jenkin was also the Chair of the Committee on Consumer Policy at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2006-14.

Annalise Huynh

Annalise Huynh is a policy analyst and designer at the Brookfield Institute. She is interested in how careful research, design, and design thinking approaches for policy can reach people who wouldn’t otherwise be a part of decision-making processes.

Sophie de Saussure

Sophie de Saussure is a PhD candidate in law at the University of Ottawa, a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholar, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council scholar (Canada Graduate Scholarships to Honour Nelson Mandela) and a member of the Canada Research Chair in Legal Traditions and Penal Rationality.

Michelle Savard

Michelle Savard is a PhD candidate in the Department of Education at Concordia University. Her research examines the barriers to the reintegration of formerly abducted young mothers in northern Uganda.

Ian Bird

Ian Bird is president of Community Foundations of Canada. Under his leadership, CFC established the Smart & Caring Communities initiative to help build a smart and caring Canada.

Mario Macis

Mario Macis is associate professor at the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University.

Nicola Lacetera

Nicola Lacetera is associate professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga and at the Rotman School of Management.

Gordon Cleveland

Dr. Gordon Cleveland is emeritus associate professor of economics at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and a member of the Expert Panel on Early Learning and Child Care Data and Research. He is also president of Cleveland Consulting: Early Childhood Education and Care Inc.

Kumanan Wilson

Kumanan Wilson is a professor of medicine, a clinical research chair in digital health innovation and member of the Centre for Health Ethics, Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa. He is the CEO and chief scientific officer of BruyÚre Health Research Institute. 

Daryl Copeland

Former Canadian diplomat Daryl Copeland is an educator, analyst and consultant; a research fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, a policy fellow at the University of Montreal’s Centre for International Studies (CERIUM).