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

Tom Brzustowski, O.C., FRSC, FCAE, Chair	Chair of the Board, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON)
Susan A. McDaniel, FRSC, Vice-Chair	Director, Prentice Institute & Canada Research Chair in Global Population & Life Course, Prentice Research Chair & Professor of Sociology, University of Lethbridge (Lethbridge, AB)
Lorne Babiuk, O.C., FRSC, FCAHS	Vice President (Research), University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB)
Murray S. Campbell	Senior Manager, Business Analytics Research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
Marcel Côté	Founding Partner, SECOR Inc. (Montréal, QC)
Jean Gray, C.M., FCAHS	Professor of Medicine (Emeritus), Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS)
Clarissa Desjardins	Former CEO, Centre of Excellence in Personalized Medicine (Montreal, QC)
John Hepburn, FRSC	Vice-President, Research and International, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)
Gregory S. Kealey, FRSC	Professor, Department of History, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, NB)
Daniel Krewski	Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and Scientific Director of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, ON)
Avrim Lazar	Former President and CEO, Forest Products Association of Canada (Ottawa, ON)
Norbert R. Morgenstern, C.M., FRSC, FCAE	University Professor (Emeritus), Civil Engineering, University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB)
Sarah P. Otto, FRSC	Professor and Director of the Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)
Robert Watson	Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (London, United Kingdom)

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