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'''Senior Policy Advisor, Open Government, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat''' <br>
'''Senior Policy Advisor, Open Government, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat''' <br>
PETER A. FERGUSON has been a Senior Policy Advisor with Open Government in the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat since September 2021. He has a PhD in political science from the University of British Columbia and has 20 years of experience as a professor having held positions at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Western Ontario. He taught courses on international relations; American politics; elections; development; human rights; and research methodology. He has published extensively on topics including democratic transitions and failures; public opinion; political leadership; intergovernmental affairs; and pedagogy. At Western, Peter was the Director (and founder) of the Leadership and Democracy Lab, an independent think tank staffed by volunteer undergraduate researchers who conduct political risk assessments for Canadian organizations doing business abroad. Peter has received numerous teaching awards including being the first, two-time winner of the Western Alumni Teaching Excellence Award.
PETER A. FERGUSON has been a Senior Policy Advisor with Open Government in the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat since September 2021. He has a PhD in political science from the University of British Columbia and has 20 years of experience as a professor having held positions at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Western Ontario. He taught courses on international relations; American politics; elections; development; human rights; and research methodology. He has published extensively on topics including democratic transitions and failures; public opinion; political leadership; intergovernmental affairs; and pedagogy. At Western, Peter was the Director (and founder) of the Leadership and Democracy Lab, an independent think tank staffed by volunteer undergraduate researchers who conduct political risk assessments for Canadian organizations doing business abroad. Peter has received numerous teaching awards including being the first, two-time winner of the Western Alumni Teaching Excellence Award.
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=== Tanya Filer ===
'''Founder, StateUp and Policy & Research Leader, Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge''' <br>
Dr. Tanya Filer is Founder and CEO of [http://www.stateup.co/ StateUp] and founded the Digital State project at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge. Tanya has worked with public sector and international organisations, technology companies and research institutes across Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East on shaping their digital governance, GovTech, and technology policy agendas. She is widely published in academic and media publications, including Wired, NS Tech and Brookings Tech Stream.
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Public-purpose technology adoption is becoming increasingly essential for addressing big public needs, but is often stymied by disconnected knowledge, data gulfs, & siloed learning and relationships. StateUp [http://www.stateup.co/nebula develops, curates, and contextualises] top-tier public-purpose technology data, research, and learning to contribute to addressing this problem at scale.
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Tanya has lectured and supervised across postgraduate programmes at Cambridge, including the MPhil in Public Policy, and at Yale and Oxford. She also directed the Internet and Digital Economy Parliamentary Scheme upskilling programme for MPs in the UK.
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Tanya sits on the Steering Committee of the Cambridge Trust and Technology Initiative and Advisory Board of the Information Law and Policy Centre, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, and served on the Council on the Future of Information and Entertainment at the World Economic Forum. Tanya was a UK-Israel British Council fellow in Cyber research in 2018, and has held fellowships at Harvard, Yale, and the Library of Congress. She is a graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and UCL.
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=== Jean Cardinal ===
=== Jean Cardinal ===
'''Senior Policy Advisor, Open Government, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat''' <br>
Jean Cardinal is currently the Director of Open Government at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Jean Cardinal is currently the Director of Open Government at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
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