Archived - This content has been developed for the transition binder for the NRC Acting President, September 2020
This list covers Canadian public sector organizations with whom the NRC engages to deliver on its mandate and three primary roles. The Policy, Strategy and Performance branch has highlighted those stakeholders with who the incoming President may wish to meet early on in his/her term. The recommendations in bold are based on a number factors such as alignment with NRC's priorities and strategic plans, recognition of important collaborative activities and the advancement of research excellence at the NRC.
| Government | ||
|---|---|---|
| Classification | Organization Name | Contact Name |
Science Based Departments, Agencies & Offices
|
Natural Resources Canada | Jean‑François Tremblay, DM |
| Health Canada | Stephen Lucas, DM | |
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Timothy Sargent, DM | |
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development | Sarah Hussaini & Amanda Woodley (Director of Policy & Policy Advisor, Office of the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry) Simon Kennedy, DM | |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | Christine Hogan, DM Martine Dubuc, Associate Deputy Minister | |
| Canadian Food Inspection Agency | Dr. Siddika Mithani, President | |
| Public Health Agency of Canada | Iain Stewart, President | |
| Agriculture and Agri‑Food Canada | Chris Forbes, DM | |
| Transport Canada | Michael Keenan, DM | |
| Canadian Space Agency | Lisa Campbell, President | |
| National Defence/Defence Research and Development Canada | Claude Rochette, Associate Deputy Minister | |
| Chief Science Advisor of Canada | Dr. Mona Nemer | |
| Polar Knowledge Canada | Vacant | |
| Statistics Canada | Anil Arora, Chief Statistician of Canada | |
Central Agencies
|
Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) | Peter Wallace, Secretary Kerry Buck, Assistant Secretary Economic Sector Nancy Chahwan, Chief Human Resources Officer Roch Huppé, Comptroller‑General |
| Privy Council Office | Ian Shugart, Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet Thao Pham Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Operations), Paul Halucha, Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet | |
| Shared Services Canada | Paul Glover, President | |
| Public Services and Procurement Canada (Labs Canada) | Bill Matthews, DM | |
| Department of Finance | Paul Rochon, DM Richard Botham, Assistant Deputy Minister | |
| Canada School of Public Service | Taki Sarantakis, President | |
Granting Councils (Federal and Provincial)
|
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) | Alejandro Adem, President |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) | Ted Hewitt, President | |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) | Dr. Michael J. Strong, President | |
| Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) | Roseann O'Reilly Runte, President and CEO | |
| Les fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) | Rémi Quirion, Chief Scientist | |
Other Federal Government
|
International Development Research Centre | Jean Lebel, President |
| Crown‑Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada | Daniel Quan‑Watson, DM | |
| Infrastructure Canada | Kelly Gillis, DM | |
| Sustainable Development Technology Canada | Leah Lawrence, President and CEO | |
| Standards Council of Canada | Chantal Guay, CEO | |
| Transportation Safety Board of Canada | Kathy Fox, Chair | |
Regional Development Agencies
|
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | Francis McGuire, President |
| Western Economic Diversification Canada | Dylan Jones, DM | |
| FedNor | Aime Dimatteo, DG | |
| Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency | Paula Isaak, President | |
| FedDevOntario | James Meddings, President | |
| Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions | Manon Brassard, President/DM | |
| Provincial/Territorial DMs of Innovation and Economic Development | ||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation | Charles Brown, DM |
| Nova Scotia | Department of Business | Bernie Miller, DM |
| Prince Edward Island | Economic Growth, Tourism and Culture | Erin McGrath‑Gaudet, DM |
| New Brunswick | Regional Development Corporation | Cade Libby, DM |
| Quebec | Économie, et de l'Innovation | David Bahan, DM |
| Ontario | Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade | Giles Gherson, DM |
| Manitoba | Growth, Enterprise and Trade | Jan Forster, DM |
| Saskatchewan | Trade and Export Development | Kent Campbell, DM |
| Alberta | Economic Development, Trade and Tourism | Kate White, DM |
| British Columbia | Jobs, Economic Development and Competitiveness | Christine Kennedy, DM |
| BC Chief Innovation Commissioner | Gerri Sinclair (Newly Appointed July 2020) | |
| Nunavut | Economic Development and Transportation | Bernie MacIsaac |
| Northwest Territories | Industry, Tourism and Investment | Pamela Strand |
| Yukon | Economic Development | Justin Ferby |
| Academia | ||
University & College Associations
|
Universities Canada | Paul Davidson, President and CEO |
| U15 | Gilles G. Patry, Executive Director | |
| CiCan | Denise Amyot, President and CEO | |
| Polytechnics Canada | Sarah Watts‑Rynard, CEO | |
| Association of University Research Parks (AURP) | Brian Darmody, Chief Executive Officer | |
Presidents of Major Universities
|
Alberta | Bill Flannigan |
| UBC | Santa J. Ono | |
| U Calgary | Edward McCauley | |
| Dalhousie | Deep Saini | |
| Toronto | Meric Gertler | |
| Laval | Sophie D'Amours, Rector | |
| Manitoba | Michael Benarroch | |
| McGill | Suzanne Fortier, Principal | |
| McMaster | David Farrar | |
| Memorial | Dr. Vianne Timmons | |
| U de Montréal | Daniel Jutras, recteur | |
| UNB | Paul Mazerolle | |
| U Ottawa | Jacques Frémont | |
| PEI | Dr. Alaa Abd‑El‑Aziz | |
| Queen's | Dr. Patrick Deane | |
| Saskatchewan | Peter Stoicheff Ph.D. | |
| Waterloo | Feridun Hamdullahpur | |
| Western | Alan Shepard | |
Associations of Deans
|
Canadian Federation of Business School Dean | Timothy Daniel Daus, Executive Director |
| Canadian Council of Deans of Science | Greg Crawford | |
Colleges
|
Algonquin | Claude Brulé, President and CEO |
| Red River | Fred Meier, President and CEO | |
| Polytechnique Montréal | Philippe A. Tanguay, President | |
| École tech supérieur | François Gagnon, CEO | |
| Saskatchewan Polytechnic | Dr. Larry Rosia, President and CEO | |
| Fanshawe College | Peter Devlin, President | |
| Seneca | David Agnew, President | |
| Sheridan | Janet Morrison, President | |
| Fleming | Maureen Adamson, President | |
| Scientific Research Organizations | ||
| NRC builds collaborative platforms to achieve scientific and engineering breakthroughs that will lead to Canadian innovation | Perimeter | Robert Myers, Director and CEO |
| Canadian Light Source | Robert Lamb, CEO | |
| Genome Canada | Rob Annan, President and CEO | |
| Institute for Quantum Computing | Kevin Resch, Interim Director | |
| Triumf | Jonathan Bagger, Director of Triumf | |
| CIFAR | Alan Bernstein, President and CEO | |
| Ocean Networks Canada | Dr. Kathryn (Kate) Moran, President | |
| Ocean Frontier Institute | Dr. Anya White, Scientific Director and CEO Catherine Blewett, Chief Strategic Engagement Officer | |
| Saskatchewan Research Council | Mike Crabtree, President and CEO | |
| Research and Productivity Council, New Brunswick | Eric Cook, Executive Director and CEO | |
| BioFoodTech PEI | Jim Smith, Executive Director | |
| SNOLab | Dr. Nigel Smith | |
| Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) | Luc‑Alain Giraldeau, Director General | |
| Indigenous | ||
| NRC is committed to reconciliation and the recognition of indigenous engagement and culture | Assembly of First Nations (AFN) | National Chief, Perry Bellegarde |
| Janice Ciavaglia,Chief Executive Officer | ||
| Congress of Aboriginal Peoples | National Chief, Robert Bertrand | |
| Jim Devoe, Chief Executive Officer | ||
| Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) | Natan Obed, President | |
| Métis National Council | Clément Chartier, President | |
| Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) | Lorraine Whitman | |
| Women's Professional Networks | ||
| NRC fosters diversity and inclusion of the NRC workforce, and supports inclusiveness and diversity in the Canadian research and innovation ecosystem | SheEO | Vicki Saunders, CEO |
| Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology | Paloma Corvalan | |
| Women in Aerospace Canada (WIA‑Canada) | Valerie Wilson | |
| Women in Communications and Technology | Joanne Stanley, Executive Director | |
| Women in Resource Development Corporation | Cheri Butt, CEO | |
| Women in Defence and Security | Lorena MacKenzie, President | |
| clusters | ||
| NRC has allocated resources to align with the Innovation clusters | Digital cluster | Sue Parish, CEO |
| Protein Industries cluster | Bill Greuel, CEO | |
| Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) cluster | Jayson Myers, CEO | |
| Scale AI cluster | Julien Billot, CEO | |
| Ocean cluster | Kendra MacDonald, CEO | |
| Innovation Organizations | ||
| NRC bolsters Canada's innovation ecosystem through supporting business innovation and convening players, through its collaborative R&D platforms, to encourage commercialization, SME growth and technology adoption | Alberta Innovates | Laura J. Kilcrease, CEO |
| Mitacs | John Hepburn | |
| NEXT Canada | Joe Canavan, CEO | |
| Compute Canada | Robbin Tourangeau, President & CEO | |
| Canadian Digital Media Network | Avvey Peters, Managing Director | |
| BC Innovation Council | Raghwa Gopal, President & CEO | |
| BC Tech Industry Association | Jill Tipping, CEO | |
| Innovation Saskatchewan | Kari Harvey, CEO | |
| Innovation PEI | Tyson Bradley, CEO | |
| Ingenium Canada | Christina Tessier | |
| Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCEs) | Claudia Krywiak, President and CEO | |
| MaRS | Yung Wu, CEO | |
| Communitech | Iain Klugman, CEO | |
| Creative Destruction Lab | Sonia Sennick, Executive Director | |
| GO Productivity | Brian Pardell, Interim CEO | |
| Genesis Groups (MUN) | Michelle Simms, President & CEO | |
| Petroleum Research NL | Dave Finn, President | |
| Mosaic Capital Corp | Mark Gardhouse, CEO | |
| Manitoba Tech Accelerator | Marshall Ring, CEO | |
| Propel ICT | Barry Bisson, CEO | |
| Research Manitoba | Christina Weise, CEO | |
| Innovacorp NS | Malcolm Fraser, CEO | |
| NS Business Inc. | Laurel Broten, CEO | |
| Springboard Atlantic | Daryl Genge, CEO | |
| Alacrity Canada | Owen Matthews, Chairman | |
| TechnoMontréal | François Borrelli, CEO | |
| Toronto Global | Toby Lennox, CEO (Aneta Krysciak, EA) | |
| TEC Edmonton | Chris Lumb, CEO | |
| Innovate Calgary | John Wilson, President & CEO | |
| Invest Ottawa | Michael Tremblay | |
| Accelerate Okanagan Tech Association | Brea Lake, CEO | |
| Waterloo Accelerator Centre | Paul Salvini, CEO | |
| Venture Communications | Arlene Dickinson, CEO | |
| Vancouver Economic Commission | Eleena Marley (Acting CEO) | |
| Victoria Innovation Advanced Technology and Entrepreneurship Council | Dan Gunn, CEO | |
| Velocity Incubator (UWaterloo) | Adrien Côté, Executive Director | |
| Ontario Global 100 (OG100) | Bruce Archibald, Executive Director | |
| QG100 | Hélène Chartier, Executive Director | |
| Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN) | Joy Romero, Chair | |
| Tech‑Access Canada | Ken Doyle, Executive Director | |
| GreenCentre Canada | Lynne Manuel, Executive Director | |
| ventureLab | Melissa Chee, President and CEO | |
| Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre | Jeanette Jackson, CEO | |
| Research Nova Scotia | Stefan Leslie, CEO | |
| Industry Associations | ||
| NRC supports business innovation and helps SMEs to scale‑up and bring innovative goods and services to production | CATA Alliance | Suzanne Grant, CEO |
| Business Council of Canada | Goldy Hyder, President and CEO | |
| Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) | Wes Jickling | |
| Emission Reduction Alberta | Steve MacDonald, CEO | |
| Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters | Dennis Darby, President and CEO | |
| Council of Canadian Innovators | Ben Bergen, Executive Director | |
| STIQ | Richard Blanchet, CEO | |
| Science Policy / Think Tanks | ||
| NRC engages with non‑governmental policy organizations to examine important science and innovation issues | Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) | Eric Meslin, President and CEO |
| Canadian Science Policy Centre | Mehrdad Hariri, CEO | |
| Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP) | Monica Gattinger, Director | |
| Institute on Governance (IOG) | Toby Fyfe, President | |
| Public Policy Forum | Edward Greenspon, President and CEO | |
| Royal Society of Canada (RSC) | Jeremy N. McNeil, President | |
| Darren Gilmour, Executive Director | ||
| Canadian Academy of Engineering | Eddy Isaacs | |
| Robert Crawhall, Executive Director | ||
| Impact Group (Re$earch Money) | Jeffrey Crelinsten, President | |
| Centre for International Governance Innovation | Rohinton P. Medhora, President | |
| C.D. Howe | William Robson, President and CEO | |
| Conference Board of Canada | Susan Black, CEO | |
| Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship | Sean Mullin, Executive Director | |
| International Institute for Sustainable Development | Richard Florizone, President and CEO | |
| Science Advocacy/Communications | ||
| NRC supports the activities of science promoters and advocates to increase equity and diversity in science, especially among under‑represented groups | ACTUA | Jennifer Flanagan, CEO |
| Let's Talk Science | Bonnie Schmidt, President | |
| Science Media Centre | Jim Handman, Executive Director | |
| Evidence for Democracy | Kimberly Girling, Interim Executive Director | |
| Foundations | ||
| Engagement with foundations leverages the NRC's reputation as a venerable Canadian research organization that has made immeasurable scientific contributions to civic society | Rideau Hall Foundation | Teresa Marques, President and CEO |
| Trudeau Foundation | Pascale Fournier, President and CEO | |