Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong is the University of Toronto’s Vice-President, International. He is also the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and a Professor of Political Science. He was the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School from 2005 to 2014, and held the Canada Research Chair in health, democracy and development for a full two terms, 2006 to...

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Anita McGahan

Anita M. McGahan is University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society at the University of Toronto. Her primary appointments are at the Rotman School of Management and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. She is cross-appointed to the Medical School and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; is Senior Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University; is the Chief...

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Nicole Goodman

Nicole presently serves as Director of the Centre for e-Democracy. Her current research largely focuses on the impacts of digital technology on Canadian political behaviour and public policy. She has also explored such impacts on governance, Indigenous self-determination and innovation. Nicole recently led a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded study of the 2014 Ontario municipal elections to assess the effects of internet voting on voters and election administration...

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Darius Ornston

Darius Ornston is Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto where he specializes in the politics of cooperation and change. An expert in Nordic innovation policy, his first book, When Small States Make Big Leaps, illustrates how those communities use cooperation to enter new, high-technology markets. In Good Governance Gone Bad, he demonstrates how the same, tight-knit networks which accelerate...

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David Ticoll

David Ticoll is a researcher, policy advisor and change leader with interests in labour market and business model innovation. He likes to start and join projects that equip Canadians with the knowledge, skills and wisdom to pursue satisfying lives in a strong economy and an equitable, sustainable world. In 2018 he was appointed, and then elected Chair, to the National Stakeholder Advisory Panel of the Labour Market Information Council (LMIC), a...

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Qiantao Zhang

Dr. Zhang received his B.Eng from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Industrial Engineering (2006), his M.M from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Management (2009), and his Ph.D from Cardiff University in Economic Geography (2016). Dr. Zhang’s main research interests include academic entrepreneurship, economic geography, innovation, and regional development. Prior to joining the IPL in January 2017, he worked as an Irish Research Council (IRC) Postdoc Research Fellow...

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Janice Stein

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and was the Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto (serving from 1998 to the end of 2014). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Her most recent...

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Louis Pauly

Louis W. Pauly, the J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, established the Centre for the Study of Global Japan in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy in 2017 and directed it until June 2019. He remains an affiliated faculty member of the Centre as well as of the Innovation Policy Lab and the International Relations Program. He served as Chair...

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Daniel Munro

Dr. Daniel Munro is a Senior Fellow in the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is also Researcher in Residence at Actua, Canada’s largest youth STEM outreach organization; and Co-Director of Shift Insights, a public policy research firm focused on innovation, technology, and skills policy. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation...

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Dan Breznitz

Dan Breznitz, is a University Professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy with a cross-appointment in the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto, where he is also the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research where he co-founded and co-directs the program on Innovation, Equity...

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Tijs Creutzberg

I am an applied and empirically oriented political scientist specializing in public policy, public administration and strategy in the areas of research, innovation and economic development. My goal is to better understand the multilevel dynamics of economic development and their associated policy implications in an era of global economic interdependence. Alongside my academic research on innovation, economic development and governance, I conducted numerous studies over 15 years as a consultant on...

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David Wolfe

David A. Wolfe is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He was the Royal Bank Chair in Public and Economic Policy from 2009-2014. His research interests include the political economy of technological change and the role of local and regional economic development, with special...

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Allison Bramwell

Allison Bramwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her current research focuses on collaborative urban governance and the political economy of restructuring with an emphasis on regional economic development and employment in renewable energy industries. Allison has published studies in various policy areas such as local labour market planning and workforce development, the role of post-secondary institutions in...

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Steven Denney

Steven Denney is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Innovation Policy Lab. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and holds an MA in Global Affairs and Policy from Yonsei University (Seoul) and a BA in Political Science from Harding University. With a primary interest in Korean politics and society and the political economy of Northeast Asia, Steven has published in The Asan Forum, The Review...

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Peter Warrian

Dr. Peter J. Warrian is a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School. His current research is on knowledge networks, supply chains and engineering labour markets. He currently leads an international research team for a joint project of the ILO and the Vatican on AI, Robotics and the Future of Work. He was formerly Research Director of the United Steelworkers of America. From 1992-94 he was Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance and...

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Shauna Brail

Shauna Brail is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto Mississauga. As an economic geographer and urban planner, her research focuses on the transformation of cities as a result of economic, social, and cultural change. Brail’s current research examines the disruptions taking place in urban mobility, particularly focused on the emergence and shifting strategies of ride-hailing firms and associated impacts on cities. She is the...

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Tara Vinodrai

Dr. Tara Vinodrai is Director of the Master of Urban Innovation program and Associate Professor in the Institute for Management and Innovation at the University of Toronto. She holds a graduate appointment to the Department of Geography and Planning and is a Senior Associate at the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Her research focuses on the dynamics of innovation, economic development, labour markets and...

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Shiri M. Breznitz

Shiri M. Breznitz, an economic geographer, specializes in innovation, technology commercialization, and regional economic development. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Monash University’s Better Governance and Policy research focus area and the Ontario IP implementation panel. Her research is at the critical intersection of theory and policy to fit the new realities of globalization: Professor Breznitz’s work has informed policymaking at the local, national, and international levels. She...

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Bill Hutchison

For the past twenty years Bill has been leading the design and implementation of Smart Cities and Innovation Districts that have won a number of global awards. His “hands-on” experience includes Smart/Intelligent City implementations in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Russia, Kazakhstan and Canada with related advisory services in many other countries. He was Executive Director, Intelligent Communities with the $34 billion Waterfront Toronto project, one of the world’s largest urban...

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Shauna Brail

Associate Professor, Institute for Management & Innovation
University of Toronto Mississauga

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Allison Bramwell

Senior Associate, Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro

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Dan Breznitz

University Professor
Co-Director, Innovation Policy Lab
Munk Chair of Innovation Studies

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Shiri M. Breznitz

Director, Master of Global Affairs Program
Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Faculty, American Studies
Affiliated Faculty, CSUS

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Tijs Creutzberg

Senior Associate, Innovation Policy Lab
Program Director, Council of Canadian Academies

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Steven Denney

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Innovation Policy Lab

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Nicole Goodman

Senior Associate, Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

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Bill Hutchison

Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Innovation Policy Lab
Founding Chair, i-CANADA

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Anita McGahan

University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society
Rotman School of Management Professor
Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

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Daniel Munro

Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Director of Policy Projects, Innovation Policy Lab

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Darius Ornston

Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Louis Pauly

J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

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Janice Stein

Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Department of Political Science

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315 Bloor Street West

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David Ticoll

Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Senior Associate, Innovation Policy Lab

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Tara Vinodrai

Research Fellow, Innovation Policy Lab
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

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Peter Warrian

Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

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David Wolfe

Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Professor, Political Science UTM

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Joseph Wong

University of Toronto’s Vice-President, International
Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Professor, Department of Political Science

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Qiantao Zhang

Lecturer in Urban Economics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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