Event Speakers
Charmaine Dean is vice-president, research and international at the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Vivek Goel is the University of Waterloo’s seventh president and vice-chancellor.
E. Richard Gold is a CIGI senior fellow, a James McGill Professor with McGill University and chief policy and partnerships officer at Conscience.
Melissa Hathaway is president of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC and a member of CIGI’s Board of Directors.
Rohinton P. Medhora is a CIGI distinguished fellow, professor of practice at McGill University, and an expert in international economic relations, innovation policy, development economics and governance.
Bessma Momani is a CIGI senior fellow with a Ph.D. in political science, focusing on international political economy. She is currently on sabbatical from the University of Waterloo at the NATO Defense College where she is a fellow examining research and development of emerging and disruptive technologies in dual‑use applications.
Michele Mosca is an award-winning researcher in cryptography and quantum computing, and has initiated numerous multidisciplinary collaborations that helped create the quantum-safe opportunity for Canada. He started and grew the quantum computing effort at the University of Waterloo, eventually co-founding the Institute for Quantum Computing.
Jillian Oderkirk is a senior health economist in the Health Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, France.
Former CIGI Senior Fellow
Aaron Shull is a CIGI senior fellow. He is also the principal of Shull Law Professional Corporation. He is recognized as a leading expert on complex issues at the intersection of law, emerging technology and national security, including cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, artificial intelligence (AI) governance and democratic resilience.
Fanny Sie’s experiences extend alongside the public and private multi-stakeholder continuum, bringing new products and services to the health-care market to enable impact for the population locally and globally.
