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===Taki Sarantakis===
=== Taki Sarantakis ===
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|President, Canada School of Public Service
Taki Sarantakis has been President of the Canada School of Public Service since July 2018, having previously served as Associate Secretary of the Treasury Board at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Mr. Sarantakis spent most of his career at Infrastructure Canada, including as Assistant Deputy Minister of Policy and Communications.
In 2011 Mr. Sarantakis was awarded Canada's Public Service Award of Excellence in Public Policy, and in 2013 he was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Mr. Sarantakis holds a B.A. and an M.A. from York University in Toronto, as well as an Executive Certificate in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a graduate of the Rotman School of Management's Institute of Corporate Directors Education Program, holding the ICD.D designation.
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== Opening Remarks ==
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=== Anil Arora ===
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|'''Chief Statistician of Canada'''
Anil Arora was appointed Chief Statistician of Canada in September 2016, having worked at Statistics Canada for over 25 years, as well as leading senior policy and regulatory roles at Natural Resources Canada and Health Canada. Mr. Arora leads substantive international initiatives, working with the United Nations and the OECD, and has received numerous prestigious awards for leadership. Mr. Arora earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alberta and holds a graduate certificate in Advanced Public Sector Management from the University of Ottawa
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== PLENARY DISCUSSION – Data for Responsive Public Policy ==
== PLENARY DISCUSSION – Data for Responsive Public Policy ==
=== Mireille Laroche ===
=== Mireille Laroche ===
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|Assistant Commissioner, Service, Innovation and Integration Branch; Chief Data Officer and Chief Service Officer, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
Mireille Laroche was appointed to the position of Chief Data Officer for the CRA on September 17, 2018. Mireille joined the CRA in September 2014 as Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Collections and Verification Branch. She became the Assistant Commissioner of the Appeals Branch on April 1, 2016.
Prior to joining the CRA, Mireille was acting Assistant Deputy Minister of the Processing and Payment Services Branch at Service Canada. Mireille began her career in the public service in 1996 with the Department of Finance Canada, where she worked on various economic and fiscal issues.
Mireille holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Social Sciences with a specialization in Economics and Political Science from the University of Ottawa
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=== Astrid Guttman ===
=== Astrid Guttman ===
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=== Kara Beckles===
=== Kara Beckles===
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|Director General, Data Integration, Privy Council Office
Kara Beckles is Director General of Data Integration at the Privy Council Office, a position she took on during the summer of 2020. Kara previously held several positions across the Government of Canada, most recently at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as Director General of the Economic Research and Analysis Directorate and Departmental Data Lead. Kara holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in economics and business from the University of Winnipeg and a Master of Arts from Dalhousie University.
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=== Rohinton Medhora ===
=== Rohinton Medhora ===
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|President, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Rohinton joined CIGI in 2012. He served on CIGI’s former International Board of Governors from 2009 to 2014. Previously, he was vice president of programs at Canada’s International Development Research Centre. His fields of expertise are monetary and trade policy, international economic relations and development economics.
Rohinton received his doctorate in economics in 1988 from the University of Toronto, where he taught for a number of years. In addition to his Ph.D., Rohinton earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Toronto.
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=== Anil Arora ===
=== Anil Arora ===
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=== Dr. Vic Pant ===
=== Vic Pant ===
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=== Natasha Kim ===
=== Natasha Kim ===
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|Assistant Deputy Minister of the Strategic and Program Policy Sector in Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
|Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of the Strategic and Program Policy Sector in Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
Previously, she held various positions at IRCC, Privy Council Office, Public Safety Canada, and Justice Canada.
Previously, she held various positions at IRCC, Privy Council Office, Public Safety Canada, and Justice Canada.
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== The Implementation of Data Strategies across the Government==
== The Implementation of Data Strategies across the Government==
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=== Jamie Smith ===
=== Jamie Smith ===
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|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) Chief Data and Results Officer
|Chief Data and Results Officer, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Mr. Jamie Smith began as Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) Chief Data and Results Officer on July 6, 2020 and comes from a strong background in data management and analytics both within and outside the department. Mr. Smith has held various posts within the federal government including at Environment Canada, the Privy Council Office and the Treasury Board Secretariat. Mr. Smith returned to ECCC in 2008 supporting the Ministers office and has since concentrated on water, weather and climate data; earth observations; monitoring network planning; and collaborating with Provinces and Territories to establish agreements to share data before assuming his current position.
Mr. Jamie Smith began as Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) Chief Data and Results Officer on July 6, 2020 and comes from a strong background in data management and analytics both within and outside the department. Mr. Smith has held various posts within the federal government including at Environment Canada, the Privy Council Office and the Treasury Board Secretariat. Mr. Smith returned to ECCC in 2008 supporting the Ministers office and has since concentrated on water, weather and climate data; earth observations; monitoring network planning; and collaborating with Provinces and Territories to establish agreements to share data before assuming his current position.
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=== Tom Dufour ===
=== Tom Dufour ===
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|Director General, Strategic Data Management Branch, Statistics Canada
Tom Dufour is the Director General of Statistics Canada’s Strategic Data Management Branch which includes the Office of Privacy Management and Information Coordination, the Statistical Geomatics Center, Data Stewardship Division, and Data Integration Infrastructure Division. He has worked in a number of areas at Statistics Canada for over 29 years including a number of social statistics programs, and most recently, in the Macroeconomic Accounts.
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=== Daniel MacDonald ===
=== Daniel MacDonald ===
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=== Julie McAuley ===
=== Julie McAuley ===
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|Chief Results and Delivery Officer, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
Julie McAuley joined ISED in September 2017 as the department’s Chief Results and Delivery Officer. In this role, she leads the implementation of the department’s outcomes-focused results and delivery framework and is the responsible for the oversight and management of ISED’s Chief Data Office, including the implementation of the Departmental Data Strategy. Prior to joining ISED, she spent her career at Statistics Canada where she held a number of executive positions.
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=== Alain Beaudoin ===
=== Alain Beaudoin ===
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=== Gail McDonald ===
=== Gail McDonald ===
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|Former Executive Director of First Nations Information Governance Centre; Member of the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council
Gail Mc Donald brings years of experience in the fields of First Nations health, data governance, survey research, administration and strategic project management. Gail has held senior positions serving her home community of Akwesasne and with organizations including Chiefs of Ontario and the Assembly of First Nations. She was instrumental in developing and managing the First Nations Information Governance Center and played a key role in the development of and advocacy for the First Nations principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession of data also known as OCAP®.
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=== Howard Ramos ===
=== Howard Ramos ===
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=== Jean-Philippe Racicot ===
=== Jean-Philippe Racicot ===
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|Supervisor, Strategic Assessment Team, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Prior to joining the Cyber Centre, Jean-Philippe managed a team of civilian and military strategic analysts within the Canadian Forces’ Intelligence Command and held several analytical and management positions in the Privy Council Office. Before joining the public service, Jean-Philippe lectured at several universities in Québec and was a researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal’s Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies.
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=== Eric Bisaillon ===
=== Eric Bisaillon ===
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=== Lindsay MacDonald ===
=== Lindsay MacDonald ===
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|Cybersecurity Engagement Lead, Health and Academia Sectors, Communication Security Establishment (CSE)
Lindsay has worked at CSE for 15 years, including many years developing and delivering cyber security training to internal CSE staff. She currently leads the team within the Canadian Center for Cyber Security that manages partnerships and engagements for the Academic and Health sectors. This role includes providing cyber security advice guidance and services to partners in those sectors. She is a graduate of engineering from Queen’s University.
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=== Don MacLeod ===
=== Don MacLeod ===
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|Director of Autonomous Defence and Sensors
Donald MacLeod has worked at the Communications Security Establishment since 1997 in a variety of cyber security, capabilities development and intelligence roles. Currently he is the Director of Autonomous Defence and Sensors for the CSE’s Cyber Centre. In this role he works with a team to design, build and operate the sensors that help defend the Government of Canada’s worldwide computer networks. This also involves working directly with industry to both better defend the Government of Canada, and also the Critical Infrastructure that Canada depends on
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=== Lauren Aldwinckle ===
=== Lauren Aldwinckle ===
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|Senior Analyst, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
Throughout her career, Lauren has worked in various roles pertaining to economic analysis, research and program evaluation. Lauren started her data governance journey over eight years ago and is continuing to hone her skills while working as a senior analyst at the DFO, with a strong focus on data stewardship and reference data management.
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=== Anton Bazilev ===
=== Anton Bazilev ===
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|Manager, Data Management, Assistant Deputy Minister, Data, Innovation and Analytics (ADM/DIA), Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF)
Anton joined DND in October of 2020 as Manager of the Data Management (ADM/DIA) where he is set to help the department advance and support Information/Data Architecture and Data Quality practices – key pillars of the DND/CAF Data Management. He has been working with various Government of Canada departments and the private sector organizations in data leadership roles including Data and Information Architecture, Enterprise Architecture and Data Governance. Before he joined DND, from 2011 to 2020, Anton was a lead Enterprise Information Architect at the Canada Border Services Agency.
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=== Jane Lin ===
=== Jane Lin ===
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=== Sébastien Fleurant ===
=== Sébastien Fleurant ===
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|Director, Data Governance and Partnerships at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Sébastien is championing data management and ensuring a strong foundation on which data analysis can flourish. This is enhanced by his mandate in leading the efforts to build data partnerships to increase the value of data sets for IRCC and the Canadian society. Sébastien has been with IRCC for over 13 years.
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=== Michelle Mann ===
=== Michelle Mann ===
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|General Counsel in Justice Canada, Immigration Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) Legal Services
Michelle is co-chair of the Justice Canada Artificial Intelligence (AI) Working Group and chair of the Justice Canada E- Commerce Study Group. Michelle is the Justice Canada business lead of a partnership with IRCC to pilot an AI powered legal technology tool for immigration law. She is also a member of the Law Commission of Ontario’s AI Advisory Panel supporting its Digital Rights Project. Michelle started her career in private practice and has previously advised the departments of (then) Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Technology law and digital law have been a focus of Michelle’s practice for over twenty years. Michelle has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1994 and a member of the Law Society of Manitoba since 1989.
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=== Patrick McEvenue ===
=== Patrick McEvenue ===
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=== Stéphane Tremblay ===
=== Stéphane Tremblay ===
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|Team Lead, National Research Council Canada (NRC)
Stéphane is passionate about innovation. He has set his mission as helping organisations become more competitive using their data. Four years ago, that quest brought Stéphane to NRC as the team leader of NRC Data Analytics Centre – a group of experts in data analytics and AI.
Stéphane’s training in statistics had brought him to Statistics Canada 20 years ago where he was managing the Canadian Tourism Statistics Program before moving to the Canadian Institute for Health Research to build an evaluation team for research programs.
Through his career, Stéphane has gained significant technical and management experience and does his best to preserve a life outside work, which includes being an athlete, a coach, a philosopher, and a father.
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=== Yvan Gauthier ===
=== Yvan Gauthier ===
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|Director of Data Science, Assistant Deputy Minister (Data, Innovation, Analytics); Lead, Enterprise Data Science, Defence Research and Development Canada, Department of National Defence (DND)
Yvan Gauthier is a senior defence scientist with Defence Research and Development Canada, Centre for Operational Research and Analysis. As Director of Data Science, he leads a team of data scientists directly supporting DND’s Chief Data Officer. Yvan also chairs the NATO Specialist Team SAS-150 on Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise Resource Planning. In his previous positions, Yvan has led several operational research projects while working in various branches of DND, including the Strategic Joint Staff and the Canadian Joint Operations Command.
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=== Monica Picard ===
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|Section Chief, Data Science Division, Statistics Canada
Monica manages multiple projects which include a variety of machine learning algorithms in the area of unstructured text classification, satellite images classification, structured and unstructured PDF extraction and classification. Many of these projects involve large data sets. Prior to joining the Data Science Division in Statistics Canada, Monica worked as an Enterprise Portfolio Manager, acting as a Statistics Canada focal point for the 25 major corporations within her portfolio. Monica has been working at Statistics Canada for the past 14 years and prior to that in Europe in the private Sector as an economist. Monica has M.Sc. in Agriculture Economics from McGill University.
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== <big>DAY 2: FEBRUARY 19, 2021</big> ==
== <big>DAY 2: FEBRUARY 19, 2021</big> ==
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=== Tom Cardoso ===
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|Crime and Justice Reporter and Data Journalist at The Globe and Mail
Tom Cardoso has been with The Globe for nearly seven years, and has previously reported extensively on gun violence and white collar crime, the latter of which netted him a 2018 Michener Award nomination. In October, he published a years-in-the-making investigation on racial bias in Canada’s prisons.
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=== David McKie ===
=== David McKie ===
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|Deputy Managing Editor, National Observer
David McKie is the National Observer’s deputy managing editor. Before joining the Observer, the Ottawa-based, award-winning journalist and author spent 26 years honing his data skills at the CBC as a producer for award-winning investigations into prescription drugs, Tasers, medical devices, nursing-home deficiencies, and school violence. David is also a data-journalism consultant who teaches journalism at Carleton University, the University of King’s College, and Ryerson University. He has co-authored two data-journalism textbooks and an access-to-information user guide.
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=== Jocopo Ottaviani ===
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|Chief Data Officer, Code for Africa
Jacopo Ottaviani is an award-winning computer scientist and data expert who has shaped Code for Africa’s data team and designed programmes supported by the World Bank, Google News Initiative, GIZ and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, spearheading work in countries like Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Senegal.
Jacopo's most recent work combines satellite data with drone imagery and forensic data to produce strategic data aggregations and visualisations that address social issues in Africa such as urban inequality, immigration, land rights, water security, deforestation and sustainable development goals.
Jacopo’s mix of technical skills, as a computer scientist and data journalist, has resulted in a series of projects published by, among others, Thomson Reuters Foundation (UK), Der Spiegel (Germany), El País (Spain), Al Jazeera International (global), De Correspondent (Netherlands) and Internazionale (Italy).
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=== Lauren Klein ===
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| Associate professor in the Departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods, and Director of Digital Humanities Lab at Emory University
Klein works at the intersection of digital humanities, data science, and early American literature, with a research focus on issues of gender and race. Before moving to Emory, she taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. In 2017, she was named one of the “rising stars in digital humanities” by Inside Higher Ed. She is the author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and, with Catherine D’Ignazio, Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020). Her current project, Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization, 1786-1900, was recently funded by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication.
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=== Stephen Burt ===
=== Stephen Burt ===
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=== Sandy Kyriakatos ===
=== Sandy Kyriakatos ===
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|Chief Data Officer, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
Sandy Kyriakatos joined the Strategic Policy Branch of CBSA in December 2019 as the new Chief Data Officer from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), where in July 2016 she was appointed as the first Chief Data Officer in the Government of Canada. Prior to joining ESDC, Sandy had held a variety of positions in the private and public sector related to data analytics, data governance, business intelligence (BI) and information technology.
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=== Zaina Sovani ===
=== Zaina Sovani ===
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=== David Barraclough ===
=== David Barraclough ===
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|Smart Data Practices Manager, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
David Barralough is leading the SDMX Modelling team that remodels the OECD’s structural metadata using SDMX. He has been involved in IT system development for 30 years, most of that time in official statistics.
David is chair of the SDMX Statistical Working Group which maintains the “Content-Oriented Guidelines” for SDMX implementation and statistical modelling, and is also a member of the ModernStats standards working group that maintains statistical modernisation models for business and technical architecture.
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=== Benjamin Williams ===
=== Benjamin Williams ===
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=== Barbara Ubaldi ===
=== Barbara Ubaldi ===
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|Head of the Digital Government and Data Unit, Division on Open and Innovative Governments, Public Governance Directorate, OECD
Barbara leads the work on digital technologies and data to enhance openness, efficiency and innovation in governments. She is responsible for country reviews, for monitoring the implementation of the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies and for the OECD OURdata Index and Digital Government Index.
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=== Natalia Carfi ===
=== Natalia Carfi ===
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|Deputy Director, Open Data Charter (ODC)
Natalia worked as the Open Government Director for the Undersecretary of Public Innovation and Open Government of Argentina where she coordinated the co-creation of the 3rd Open Government National Action Plan. She was also Open Government coordinator for the Digital Division of the Government of Chile and for the City of Buenos Aires. She is part of the Open Data Leaders Network and the Academic Committee of the International Open Data Conference. Nati leads the delivery of the ODC’s strategy, engaging with experts from governments, civil society organizations, academics and the private sector. She also supports the development of plans to deliver projects in collaboration with the ODC network.
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=== Nigel Jacob ===
=== Nigel Jacob ===
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|Nigel Jacob is the Co-founder of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, a civic innovation incubator and R&D Lab within Boston’s City Hall.
Nigel’s work is about making urban life better via innovative, people-oriented applications of technology and design. Prior to joining the City of Boston in 2006, Nigel worked in a series of technology start-ups in the Boston area. He was also previously the Urban Technologist in Residence at Living Cities, a philanthropic collaboration of 22 of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions. He is currently a board member at organizations such as Code For America and coUrbanize, and is an Executive-in-Residence at Boston University.
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=== Mélanie Robert ===
=== Mélanie Robert ===
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=== Donna Curtis Maillet ===
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|Privacy Officer for the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT)
Donna Curtis Maillet has been the Privacy Officer for the NB-IRDT since it originated in 2015 and is Chair of the Health Data Research Network Canada privacy team. In addition to a background in library and information sciences, she holds an interdisciplinary PhD and has research work experience in science and technology studies and legal pluralism. Dr. Curtis Maillet has been a part-time lecturer in sociology and public policy at St Thomas University since 2014.
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=== Gillian Dawson ===
=== Gillian Dawson ===
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=== Vedmani Sharan ===
=== Vedmani Sharan ===
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|Analyst, Chief Data Office, Employment and Social Development Canada
Vedmani Sharan is passionate about data management including data strategy, data architecture and data governance. He is a member of the team that developed the Benefits Knowledge Hub for sharing benefits related data with various stakeholders. Besides working with government, Vedmani is pursuing PhD in Management at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University.
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=== Gabrielle Fitzgerald ===
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=== Taki Sarantakis ===
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|President, Canada School of Public Service
Taki Sarantakis has been President of the Canada School of Public Service since July 2018, having previously served as Associate Secretary of the Treasury Board at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Mr. Sarantakis spent most of his career at Infrastructure Canada, including as Assistant Deputy Minister of Policy and Communications.
In 2011 Mr. Sarantakis was awarded Canada's Public Service Award of Excellence in Public Policy, and in 2013 he was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Mr. Sarantakis holds a B.A. and an M.A. from York University in Toronto, as well as an Executive Certificate in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a graduate of the Rotman School of Management's Institute of Corporate Directors Education Program, holding the ICD.D designation.
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=== Jane Crofts ===
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|Founder of Data To The People and creator of Databilities®
Jane Crofts is the founder of Data To The People and creator of Databilities® , the world’s first evidence-based data literacy competency framework. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Jane is an internationally recognised data literacy pioneer and works with leading public and private sector organisations across the globe to measure, map and develop data literacy across these organisations. Jane sits on the Advisory Board for the Data Literacy Project, a global community dedicated to creating a data-literate world.
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=== Yvan Clermont ===
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|Director General of the Analytical Studies Branch at Statistics Canada.
In his current position, Mr. Clermont is responsible for leading several teams of researchers that provide authoritative expertise and produce high quality, relevant and timely information on economic, health and social issues important to Canadians, governments, non-profit organizations and institutions.
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=== Ümit Kiziltan ===
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|Chief Data Officer (CDO) Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Ümit Mustafa Kiziltan was appointed in 2019 as the Chief Data Officer at IRCC. He has been a Public Service executive since 2006 in resettlement, multiculturalism, and citizenship. In 2011, he became the Director General of Research and Evaluation branch at IRCC, focusing on the development and liberation of research data in close partnership with Statistics Canada. Prior to 2006, Ümit taught in academia, and worked with civil society and First Nations. He is currently preoccupied with the increasing fragility of liberal democracies, which fuels his commitment to quality data and trusted insight to inform public policy and evidence-based narratives.
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|Vice-President of Innovation and Policy Services, Canada School of Public Service
Neil Bouwer has also served as an Assistant Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Privy Council Office of Canada; and in executive positions at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada. He has also worked at the Department of Finance and Western Economic Diversification Canada, and has Economics degrees from McGill University and St. Thomas University. Neil actively supports the Government of Canada policy and data communities, the Advanced Policy Analyst Program and the Free Agent HR Program.
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