SAC Membership
Scientific Advisory Committee
The role of this 16-member Committee is to advise the Council’s Board with respect to assessment topic selection, terms of reference, and peer review. The Committee will also be among several sources of advice on selection of expert panelists.
The members of SAC are eminent representatives of the broad science community, drawing from the academic, business and non-governmental sectors. Membership reflects balance in terms of discipline, geography, gender and official language community.
Members
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Chair of the Board, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON) |
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Director, Prentice Institute & Canada Research Chair in Global Population & Life Course, Prentice Research Chair & Professor of Sociology, University of Lethbridge (Lethbridge, AB) |
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Vice President (Research), University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) |
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Senior Manager, Business Analytics Research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY) |
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Founding Partner, SECOR Inc. (Montréal, QC) |
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Professor of Medicine (Emeritus), Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS) |
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Former CEO, Centre of Excellence in Personalized Medicine (Montreal, QC) |
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Vice-President, Research and International, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC) |
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| Gregory S. Kealey, FRSC | Professor, Department of History, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, NB) |
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Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and Scientific Director of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, ON) |
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| Avrim Lazar | Former President and CEO, Forest Products Association of Canada (Ottawa, ON) |
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University Professor (Emeritus), Civil Engineering, University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) |
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Professor and Director of the Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC) |
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Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (London, United Kingdom) |
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