Richard A. Wagner
Partner - Ogilvy Renault
 
Mr. Wagner is a partner in the law firm Ogilvy Renault LLP. His practice focuses on Canadian federal administrative and regulatory laws that affect business: including competition/antitrust law, government procurement law and particularly international trade law, where his expertise has been recognized by several independent organizations. Mr. Wagner regularly advises and represents Canadian and foreign clients in relation to customs, trade, competition and procurement issues before government departments and agencies, tribunals and the courts.

Peter Barnes
President - Peter Barnes Enterprises Inc.
 
After more than a decade spent working for the British Government and the British private sector, Peter Barnes worked with the Ontario government from 1975 to 1995. His first position was with Management Board of Cabinet, and he occupied a number of positions thereafter including Assistant Deputy Minister of Operations responsible for the delivery of all ministry programs. In 1982, he was appointed to set up new technology initiatives in the Ministry of Industry and Trade. In May 1989, he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology; later, he was appointed Secretary of Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council for Ontario, and in 1992, he became Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade. Mr Barnes retired in 1995 and has now formed his own company, has worked with a number of governments outside of, is an executive partner in a systems integration company, and is involved in a variety of volunteer activities.

Paul Bernard
Professor, Department of Sociology - Université de Montréal
 
Paul Bernard received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1974. He is currently a Professor of Sociology at the Université de Montréal; his focus in research and teaching is on social inequality and life course, as well as on epistemology and methods. His recent work, both internationally and inter-provincially within Canada, has involved job quality, social cohesion, social capital, welfare regimes and gender regimes, social inequalities of health, indicators of social development, lifecourse and social investment, flexicurity, and poverty among single-parent families. Dr. Bernard is a member of many different organizations ranging from the National Statistics Council to the Steering Committee of the Canadian Household Panel Survey. He is actively involved in the CIHR-funded Centre Léa-Roback on social inequalities of health.

Jocelyne Bourgon
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Public Administration and Public Service Reform, University of Waterloo; Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation
 
The Honourable Jocelyne Bourgon is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Administration at the University of Waterloo and the Center for International Governance Innovation as well as President Emeritus of the Canada School of Public Service. In 1994, she was appointed Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, becoming the 17^th Clerk and the first woman to hold this position. From 1994 to 1999, she led the Public Service of Canada through some of its most important reforms since the 1940s. In December 1998, she was summoned to the Queen’s Privy Council for in recognition of her contribution to her country. From 2003–2007, she served as Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Since 2007, she has served as special advisor to the Privy Council Office and President Emeritus of the Canada School of Public Service.

Monica Boyd
Professor, Department of Sociology - University of Toronto
 
Dr. Monica Boyd is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and holds a Canada Research Chair in Immigration, Inequality and Public Policy. Trained as a demographer and sociologist, she has written numerous articles, books and monographs on the changing family, gender inequality, international migration (with foci on policy, on immigrant integration and on immigrant women) and ethnic stratification. Dr. Boyd also is an active participant in policy and government circles; currently she is a member of the National Statistics Council which advises the Chief Statistician of Canada. She has served on executive boards of Canadian and American professional associations, including tenure as President of the Canadian Population Society. She currently is the President of Academy II (Social Sciences) of ’s National Academies, the Royal Society of Canada, she is President-Elect of the Canadian Sociological Association.

Yvon Fortin
Advisor, Statistical Organization
 
Mr. Fortin obtained a Bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Ottawa and completed studies towards a Master's degree. He joined Statistics Canada in 1962 and occupied the positions of Director, Director General and Assistant Chief Statistician. He was appointed in 1998, Director General of the newly established Institut de la statistique du Québec after assuming responsibility for social programs at 's Treasury Board Secreteriat. He is presently President of the Governing Board of UNESCO's Institute of Statistics.

John Helliwell
Professor, Department of Economics - University of British Columbia
 
An internationally renowned economist, John F. Helliwell is both Arthur J.E. Child Foundation Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and co-director of CIFAR’s program on Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being. Mr. Helliwell is the author of a number of books focusing in particular on social capital, public policy, and well-being. He was previously visiting special advisor at the Bank of Canada in 2003-04, visiting research fellow of Merton College Oxford, in 2003, of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, in 2001, and Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard in 1991-94. He is also Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia, a member of the National Statistics Council, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Sharon Manson Singer
President - Canadian Policy Research Networks
 
Dr. Manson Singer has more than two decades of experience in the public policy environment. Her areas of expertise include health and social policy, research methods, voluntary sector management and leadership. She has served as an expert advisor to all levels of government in and internationally on issues related to income security and poverty reduction. Between 2001 and 2005, she operated her own consulting firm, providing advice on corporate governance, public policy design and advice, strategic management, business development and human resources development counsel to the private, public and voluntary sectors both in Canada and internationally.

Elizabeth Parr-Johnston
President - Parr Johnston Economic and Policy Consultants
 
Dr. Elizabeth Parr-Johnston, C.M., Yale Ph.D. and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, served as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick from 1996 to 2002. Prior to that, she was President and Vice-Chancellor of Mount Saint Vincent University (1991 to 1996). Her career has included academic appointments at several universities throughout Canada. Her federal government career included positions at Statistics Canada and the Department of Regional Economic Expansion. She served as Senior Policy Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Minister of Employment and Immigration. She has chaired the Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents and the Association of Atlantic Universities and served on the executive of the Association of Universities and Colleges in as well as serving as a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the former Ontario Economic Council. She is involved in extensive volunteer activities. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Canadian 125^th Anniversary Medal and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. She is currently President of Parr Johnston Economic and Policy Consultants.

Ian Stewart
 
Ian Stewart received his PhD from Cornell in 1965. In 1966, he joined the Bank of Canada to head an econometric modelling team and co-authored a series of publications on the RDX series of models. After a period as Associate Chief of the Research Department at the Bank, he joined the permanent public service in 1972 as Special Advisor to the Treasury Board Secretariat. He subsequently served as Senior Economic Advisor to the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources; Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy and Economic Advisor to the Privy Council Office; Deputy Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources; Deputy Minister of Finance; and Senior Economic Advisor to the Ministry of State for Economic and Regional Development and the Department of Regional Economic Expansion. He was Skelton-Clark Fellow in Political Studies at Queen's University from 1985 to 1987. Mr. Stewart has written and published extensively, largely on matters economic. Retired from the public service in 1986, he currently observes, advises when asked, and writes from Ottawa.

Jean-Pierre Voyer
Chief Executive Officer
 
Jean-Pierre Voyer has been the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) since July 2006. For the four years prior to that, Mr. Voyer was the Executive Director of the Policy Research Initiative, an organization attached to the Privy Council Office and responsible for conducting research on cross-cutting social, economic, and environmental issues in support of the Government of Canada’s medium-term policy agenda.  From 1994 to 2000 he was Director General of the Applied Research Branch at Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), which covered a wide spectrum of labour market and social policy issues and provided direction and financial support for large socio-economic surveys relevant to HRDC’s mandate. During his career, Mr. Voyer also held positions at Finance Canada, the National Union of Government Employees, the Regional and Economic Development Secretariat of the Privy Council Office, and the Economic Council of Canada, where he directed research projects on labour market issues and on the Canadian economic union.

Mr. Voyer has represented Canada on numerous occasions at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and at other international meetings. He was Chairman of the OECD Education, Labour and Social Affairs Committee from 1998 to 2000. He currently sits on the research advisory committees of several research projects and organizations, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Ottawa.

He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Queen’s University and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Université de Montréal.