NOVEMBER 26-27, 2018
OTTAWA CONFERENCE & EVENT CENTRE
200 COVENTRY ROAD, OTTAWA ON K1K 4S3
7:30 AM
Registration
8:30 AM
Welcome Address
Keynote Presentations:
8:40 AM
Dominic Barton, Senior Partner and Global Managing Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, and Chair of the Advisory Council On Economic Growth
9:00 AM
Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania
9:50 AM
10:40 AM
Networking Break
Case Studies:
11:00 AM
Instrument Choice:
An agile regulatory system relies on the regulators’ ability to assess the effectiveness of regulatory and non-regulatory instruments to achieve policy objectives. These case studies will explore the types of instrument and assess the pros and cons to determine the best instruments in a context of a rapid and technology driven change, and new business models.
Moderator: Eric Ward, Policy Horizons
Guest Speakers:
Doug Hood, Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario
Karen Muttersbach, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Aly Háji, Judicial Law Clerk
Regulatory Experimentation:
To ensure the regulatory system can keep pace with advances in technology and innovation, regulators need controlled environments where they can experiment with new technologies without compromising the safety of Canadians. The use of experimentation pilots is the obvious solution as they contribute to foster innovation and build strong partnerships between the public and private sector. These case studies will offer practical examples of how this approach has been used in Canada and internationally.
Moderator: Susan Ramonat, Spiritus
Guest Speakers:
Patricia Pledge, Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada
Leigh Sharpington, UK Government
Hieu Vu, Health Canada
Moderator: Thomas Kearney, Policy Community Partnership Office
Guest Speakers:
David Turnbull, Transport Canada
Dan Burns, Bombardier
Leanne Hachey, Nova Scotia Government
Regulatory Engagement:
Regulators are being challenged to expand on traditional consultation methods to meaningfully engage stakeholders throughout development, management and review of regulations. For the system to be more conducive to innovation, the relationship between the industry and regulators needs to fundamentally change with the support of an ongoing dialogue. These case studies will help clarify how opportunities can be fostered and risks managed.
Moderator: Kevin Perry, Government of Ontario
Guest Speaker:
Laura Jones, Canadian Federation of Independent Business
Maria Iafano, UL Canada
Jean-Guy Forgeron, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Regulatory Cooperation:
Cooperation and alignment of regulations across jurisdictions is key for an agile regulatory system, offering a tone of benefits to regulators and those subject to regulation. Yet, bringing it about is far from straightforward. These case studies will offer insights into how to get started, build support and maintain momentum to realize the vision of a more streamlined and less burdensome regulatory system where an effective harmony of inter jurisdictional regulations overbear.
12:30 PM
Networking Lunch
Workshops:
These workshops are design for participants to continue to have a constructive discussion on the topics presented in the morning to best determine how we can apply these regulatory concepts into our daily work in the Federal Public Service and how we can stimulate opportunities to embrace an agile regulatory approach.
1:30 PM
Instrument Choice
Regulatory Experimentation
Regulatory Engagement
Regulatory Cooperation
2:30 PM
Networking break
3:00 PM
Moderator: Ian Matheson
Guest Speakers:
Diane Allan, Measurement Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development
Kevin Perry, Government of Ontatrio
Susan Ramonat, Spiritus
Thomas Kearney, Policy Community Partnership Office
Report Back Plenary
3:45 PM
Closing Keynote Address
4:30 PM
End of day 1
8:00 AM
Registration
8:30 AM
Welcome Address and CFR Regulatory Professional Development Program Graduation Ceremony
Keynote Presentations:
9:00 AM
9:30 AM
10:30 AM
Networking Break & Artificial Intelligence Marketplace
Case Studies:
Moderator: Alyssa Daku, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Guest Speakers:
Diane Allan, Measurement Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development
Will Creswell, Product Safety, UK Government
Florentin Blanc, World Bank Group
11:00 AM
Risk Based Oversight:
In an effort to make regulation more efficient and effective, risk-based approaches are being used to shift from one-size-fit-all to a data-driven segmented approach. These case studies will explore practical examples of how this approach is being used in Canada and other jurisdictions.
Ethical Business Regulations (EBR):
EBR introduces a new paradigm in compliance and enforcement based on behavioral science & ethics. EBR provides the basis for an effective relationship between business and its regulators resulting in better outcomes. Case studies will explore the benefits of EBR as currently used from regulators in UK.
Moderator: Christopher Hodges, Oxford University
Guest Speakers:
Marcus Rink, Drinking Water Inspectorate, UK Government
Isabelle Des Chênes, Chemistry Industry Association of Canada
Transformation of Regulatory Services:
We often associate these days transformation with digitalization of the regulatory service delivery environment. However, the transformation goes beyond just digitalization to encompass new business practices designed to increase communication and efficiency between the regulator and the regulatee. These case studies will explore areas where the transformation has begun and share lessons learned.
Moderator: Trajan Schulzke, CGI
Guest Speakers:
Denis Mulhall, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Tara Mulrooney, Alberta Energy Regulator
Julie Leese, Transport Canada
Emerging Technologies in Regulation:
Emerging technologies can be leveraged to develop more effective and efficient processes. This session will explore some of these innovation technologies and showcase how they can bring efficiencies in the regulatory process. The case studies will showcase use of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) in regulatory processes.
Moderator: Neil Bouwer, Canada School of Public Service
Guest Speakers:
Srikanth Mangalam, PRISM Institute
Serge Joly, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Wendy Nixon, Transport Canada
12:30 PM
Networking Lunch & Artificial Intelligence Marketplace
Keynote Address:
1:30 PM
Workshops:
These workshops are design for participants to continue to have a constructive discussion on the topics presented in the morning to best determine how we can apply these regulatory concepts into our daily work in the Federal Public Service and how we can stimulate opportunities to embrace an agile regulatory approach.
2:10 PM
Risk Based Oversight
Ethical Business Practices
Transformation not Digitalization
Emerging Technologies in Regulation
3:10 PM
Networking break & Artificial Intelligence Marketplace
3:40 PM
Moderator: Ian Matheson
Guest Speakers:
Alyssa Daku, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Christopher Hodges, Oxford University
Trajan Schulzke, CGI
Neil Bouwer, Canada School of Public Service
Report Back Plenary
Tina Green, Assistant Deputy Minister, Regulatory Operations and Regions Branch, Health
Canada, and ADM CFR Co-Champion
4:20 PM
Closing Remarks
4:30 PM
End of day 2
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Denis Mulhall occupe le poste de directeur principal, Plateformes et applications – Développement et opérations, à la Direction générale de l’innovation, du développement des affaires et des services (DGIDAS) de l’Agence canadienne d’inspection des aliments (ACIA). À ce titre, M. Mulhall est responsable de l’adaptation au numérique, et il appuie les efforts de l’Agence visant à moderniser les services de réglementation offerts aux entreprises et à se préparer à l’entrée en vigueur du règlement d’application de la Loi sur la salubrité des aliments au Canada.
Avant de se joindre à l’ACIA, M. Mulhall exerçait les fonctions de conseiller principal auprès du gouvernement du Nunavut et a dirigé un examen stratégique de l’environnement des télécommunications du gouvernement territorial. Il a aussi travaillé à Santé Canada, où il était chargé d’élaborer, de tenir à jour et de mettre en œuvre le plan d’investissement dans les technologies de l’information et les laboratoires, à l’appui du cadre réglementaire de la Direction générale. Pendant qu’il était à Santé Canada, M. Mulhall a reçu trois prix d’excellence du sous-ministre dans les catégories « Pratiques de gestion », « Innovation » et « Service aux Canadiens ».
Enfin, M. Mulhall a passé plus de vingt ans dans le marché fort concurrentiel des télécommunications; il connaît donc très bien le paysage technologique du secteur privé.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Transformation of Regulatory Services
Trajan is an experienced problem-solver, strategist and pioneer. He is the innovator behind a growing federal digital services design Hub and a groundbreaking services-for-business innovation lab.
He is a recognized consensus builder and digital change leader who can both create a compelling vision and lead the team to get there. In 2018, Trajan completed a dynamic career in Canada’s federal public service to lead CGI’s digital transformation and business consulting practice in the National Capital Region. Trajan knows how to connect business units with the digital enablers in IT to collaboratively build and implement truly human-centred digital transformation strategies.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Transformation of Regulatory Services
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Tara Mulrooney is an innovative and results driven executive who is currently leading the digital transformation for the Alberta Energy Regulator as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). She started her career in the software industry transitioning to public sector with the University of Calgary and in 2011 to the AER, Tara has been recognized for digital leadership as a CIO of Canada finalist by IT World Canada, the Canadian Public Relations Society, ESRI, Open text and the John Zachman global architectural awards.
The recent success that the AER has realized leveraging their “ONESTOP” platform are an underpinning of regulatory excellence within the oil and gas sector and are being recognized internationally as transformative.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Transformation of Regulatory Services
Julie Leese is the Chief Information Officer and Director General, Digital Services at Transport Canada.
Julie has been with Transport Canada since May 2016 and has been leading the modernization and renewal of the department’s national IM/IT program and has facilitated the co-design of Transport Canada’s Digital Strategy in collaboration with her colleagues across the department.
As part of the transformation of the IM/IT program at Transport Canada, Julie has engaged her team using design thinking practices to redefine how they work, how they engage, and how they will embed ‘digital’ into the business of the department and for its clients. Working with her colleagues, Julie is helping to drive oversight modernization at Transport Canada in key areas such as online services delivery, mobilizing the inspectorate, building capacity in BI and advanced data analytics and publishing the department’s open data, as well as the renewal and rationalization of the department’s portfolio of safety and security IT systems and data.
Julie’s started her career with the federal public service as a cartographer with the Department of National Defence. Her career spans close to 33 years and eight different departments in a number of different areas including geomatics, program delivery, service excellence, change management and of course, IM/IT. Julie is an active member of the Government of Canada’s CIO community, the Canadian CIO Association of Canada, and has also established a Womens CIO Forum to advance dialogue and action in promoting women in technology.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Transformation of Regulatory Services
Neil Bouwer is currently the Vice-President, Innovation and Policy Services Branch at the Canada School of Public Service.
He has also served as an Assistant Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretartiat, Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Privy Council Office of Canada; and in executive positions at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada. He has also worked at the Department of Finance and Western Economic Diversification Canada, and has Economics degrees from McGill University and St. Thomas University.
Neil actively supports the Government of Canada Policy Community, the Advanced Policy Analyst Program and the Free Agent HR Program.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Emerging Technologies in Regulation
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Srikanth Mangalam is a recognized visionary and expert in risk-informed decision-making. He has over 25 years of experience in risk management in both the public and private sectors in Canada, USA, Malaysia and India. He is credited with conceptualizing and implementing a unique and innovative approach to Risk-Informed Decision-Making in Canada’s public safety sector. He is currently an Advisor to the CEO for Ontario’s Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority, Public Sector Innovation Specialist with the World Bank working on projects in Africa and Europe. He also advises several agencies within the Canadian and Ontario governments on regulatory modernization.
Formerly the Director and Chief Advisor for Public Safety Risk Management at the Technical Standards and Safety Authority in Toronto, Canada, Srikanth and his team received US and Canadian patents for developing and implementing an innovative approach to risk-based regulatory inspections. Srikanth has successfully established and delivered science-based risk management strategies in real-world contexts and championed the application of analytics and innovative outcome-based performance metrics to quantify risks and the effectiveness of regulations. He has several publications to his credit and is a highly sought after speaker on public risk management at conferences and by regulatory agencies. He is the Canadian Chair of the International Electrotechnical (IEC) Committee on Dependability Standards and is an expert member on several international standards. He is a founding member of the newly constituted International Network on Delivery of Regulation promoted by the UK Government and based at Oxford University.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Emerging Technologies in Regulation
Ms. Nixon has a Bachelor’s degree in Canadian Studies from the University of Ottawa and a Master’s degree in public administration from Queen’s University. Throughout her career, Ms. Nixon has had a broad variety of positions linked to regulatory and business management. In more recent years, Ms. Nixon has worked in both the Aviation Security and Marine Security sectors at Transport Canada.
Ms. Nixon was the Director, Aviation Security Program Development at Transport Canada, responsible for the Canadian Air Cargo Security Program and the development Security Management Systems until September 2017. She is currently Director General of Aviation Security at Transport Canada since October 2017.
Day 2 – Case studies – Emerging Technologies in Regulation
Ian Matheson is an Executive Coach, trainer and facilitator. His areas of expertise include leadership development, strategy, emotional intelligence, governance and communications.
Over the course of his career, Ian held senior executive positions within the Government of Canada, working in policy development, program delivery and corporate services. He has worked in seven departments, including the Privy Council Office and the Treasury Board Secretariat. As a Senior Faculty Member for three years at the Canada School of Public Service, Ian was an executive coach and taught courses in governance, leadership, management and communications.
Ian began his career in the Canadian Armed Forces, serving over 20 years as a pilot and strategic planner for international peacekeeping missions in Haiti and the Middle East.
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Alyssa is a strategy and risk leader with significant experience in the health sector and other areas of government as it relates to corporate strategy, risk management, compliance and analytics.
Alyssa joined the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in October 2016 to lead its new Integrated Risk Management Directorate. She has helped to promote the effective application and implementation of risk management practices across and within all levels of risk managed by the CFIA. Alyssa has also played an integral role in CFIA communication and awareness building activities to promote a more risk-informed culture. In March 2018, Alyssa was designated as the Chief Risk Executive for the CFIA in recognition of her ground-breaking efforts in risk analytics and her successful spearheading of many risk-related change initiatives.
Alyssa worked previously at eHealth Saskatchewan from 2013 to fall 2016. As the Vice-President of Strategy, Quality and Risk Management, Alyssa oversaw enterprise risk management (including Privacy, Security and Patient Safety), corporate strategic services, legal and policy, information governance, analytics, and the delivery of Health Registry services, including Vital Statistics and Health Coverage. She also launched the open government initiative with the City of Regina.
Alyssa has a Master’s degree in Public Administration with a major in Public Policy from the University of Regina and is a certified Information Privacy Professional. Alyssa is passionate about helping others. She served as a long-standing Board Member for Sofia House in Regina, a second stage housing program for victims of domestic violence.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Risk Based Oversight
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Christopher Hodges is Professor of Justice Systems at the University of Oxford; a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford; and Head of the Swiss Re/CMS Research Programme on Civil Justice Systems at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, where he has been since 2004.
He graduated from New College, Oxford in 1976, obtained his PhD from King’s College, London in 2003. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1979 and practised from 1977 to 2003 in major City of London law firms, on a pan-EU basis.
From 2011-2014 he was Erasmus Professor of the Fundamentals of Private Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He was Honorary Professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, and Guest Professor at Wuhan University, China (2013 to 2016); Visiting Professor at Leuven University’s Global Law School Programme (2013) and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra (2014).
His research covers all EU regulatory and dispute resolution systems, aiming to devise an effective, integrated and balanced civil justice and regulatory model for European states. His books include Ethical Business Practice & Regulation (with Ruth Steinholtz, forthcoming), Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries (with Sonia Macleod, forthcoming), Law and Corporate Behaviour: Integrating Theories of Regulation and Enforcement (Hart, 2015), Consumer ADR in Europe (with Benöhr and Creutzfeldt, Hart, 2012), The Costs and Funding of Civil Litigation (Hart, 2010), The Reform of Class and Representative Actions in European Legal Systems: A New Approach to Collective Redress in Europe (Hart, 2008), European Regulation of Consumer Product Safety (Oxford, 2005), Multi-Party Actions (Oxford, 2001), and European Product Liability (1993).
His advice is sought by the European Commission, European Parliament, numerous governments, regulatory authorities, ombudsmen, multinational businesses and consumer associations across the world. In 2017 he has given major speeches at UNCTAD, OECD, the US-EU Mentor group, and the Centre for Information Policy.
He is a Board Member of the UK Research Integrity Office, and of the Foundation for Law Justice and Society. He is co-coordinator of the pan-EU Civil Justice Systems Project, and the Stanford-Oxford Global Class Actions Project. He has a special interest in health systems, and has chaired various committees in the sector, including the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee for England and an international committee of regulatory authorities and businesses on regulatory strategy in the medical devices sector.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Ethical Business Regulations (EBR)
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Neil Bouwer is currently the Vice-President, Innovation and Policy Services Branch at the Canada School of Public Service.
He has also served as an Assistant Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretartiat, Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Privy Council Office of Canada; and in executive positions at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada. He has also worked at the Department of Finance and Western Economic Diversification Canada, and has Economics degrees from McGill University and St. Thomas University.
Neil actively supports the Government of Canada Policy Community, the Advanced Policy Analyst Program and the Free Agent HR Program.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Emerging Technologies in Regulation
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Trajan is an experienced problem-solver, strategist and pioneer. He is the innovator behind a growing federal digital services design Hub and a groundbreaking services-for-business innovation lab.
He is a recognized consensus builder and digital change leader who can both create a compelling vision and lead the team to get there. In 2018, Trajan completed a dynamic career in Canada’s federal public service to lead CGI’s digital transformation and business consulting practice in the National Capital Region. Trajan knows how to connect business units with the digital enablers in IT to collaboratively build and implement truly human-centred digital transformation strategies.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Transformation of Regulatory Services
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Dr. Siddika Mithani became President of the Public Health Agency on April 11, 2016. Dr. Mithani holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy and a Ph.D. in Psychopharmacology from the University of Aston, England. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Neuroscience Department at the University of British Columbia.
She has a wealth of leadership experience in science-based departments, and most recently, she served as Associate Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
Dr. Mithani began her career with the public service at Health Canada in 1988. She has served as Assistant Deputy Minister of the Science and Technology Branch at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, as Assistant Deputy Minister of Ecosystems and Oceans Science at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and as Associate Assistant Deputy Minister in the Health Products and Food Branch at Health Canada.
Day 1 – Welcome Address
Day 2 – Welcome Address and CFR Regulatory Professional Development Program
Graduation Ceremony
The Honourable Scott Brison, the Member of Parliament for Kings—Hants (Nova Scotia), has been elected to Canada's House of Commons in seven general elections between June 1997 and October 2015.
Prime Minister Trudeau appointed Minister Brison to the federal cabinet as President of the Treasury Board in November 2015. In July 2018, he welcomed additional responsibilities after being appointed Minister of Digital Government.
He has served as a member of the Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications that tracks progress on the government’s priorities; the Cabinet Committee on Inclusive Growth, Opportunities and Innovation that considers strategies to promote inclusive economic growth, opportunity, employment, and social security; the Cabinet Committee on Open and Transparent Government; and the ad-hoc Cabinet Committee on Defence Procurement.
During his years in opposition, he notably served as Vice-Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. On the international scene, he served as a member of the Trilateral Commission, and he was named by the World Economic Forum of Davos, Switzerland, as one of its "Young Global Leaders."
Minister Brison served as Minister of Public Works and Government Services, and Receiver General of Canada from 2004 to 2006 and, previously, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister with special emphasis on Canada-U.S. relations.
Minister Brison has had extensive private sector experience as an entrepreneur and investment banker. He has served as Vice-President of a Canadian investment bank and as Chairman of SeaFort Capital Inc., a Canadian private equity firm.
Minister Brison and his partner, Maxime St-Pierre, live in Cheverie, Nova Scotia, on the shores of the Minas Basin, home of the world's highest tides. He was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, on May 10, 1967, and graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance in 1989. He has completed the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century Executive Education Program at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.
In his spare time, he enjoys economics, foreign policy, sea kayaking, downhill skiing, and growing apples, and has recently planted a small vineyard.
Dominic Barton is a Senior Partner and Global Managing Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company. From July 2009 to July 2018 he served as Global Managing Partner, based in London. In his 32 years with the firm, Dominic has advised clients in a range of industries including banking, consumer goods, high tech and industrials. Prior to serving as Global Managing Partner, Dominic was based in Shanghai as McKinsey’s Asia Chairman from 2004 to 2009 and led the Korea office from 2000 to 2004.
Dominic is the Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, the Chair of the Canadian Minister of Finance’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth and the Chair of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council. He is also a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, a member of the Singapore Economic Development Board’s International Advisory Council, and a member of the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
He is one of the founders of FCLT Global (Focusing Capital on the Long Term), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing practical tools and approaches that encourage long-term behaviors in business and investment decision-making.
Dominic has authored more than 80 articles on the role of business in society, leadership, financial services, Asia, history and the issues and opportunities facing markets worldwide. Dominic is a co-author, with Roberto Newell and Greg Wilson, of Dangerous Markets: Managing in Financial Crises (Wiley & Sons, 2002), the author of China Vignettes: An Inside Look at China (Talisman, 2007), a co-author, with Dezso Horvath and Matthias Kipping, of Reimagining Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2016), and a co-author, with Ram Charan and Dennis Carey, of Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).
Dominic is a recipient of the INSEAD Business Leader for the World Award (2011), the Korean Order of Civil Merit (Peony Medal, 2013), the Singaporean Public Service Star (2014), the Foreign Policy Association Corporate Social Responsibility Award (2017), and Canada’s Public Policy Forum Testimonial Award (2017). He is a Rhodes Trustee and an Honorary Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. Dominic is also an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA Honours in economics and has a M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Day 1 – Keynote Presentations
Thom is an award winning teacher, passionate learner and public servant helping to tell stories of growth and navigate changing landscapes.
In 2009 he helped Government of Canada employees to be more open in their dealings between each other through the introduction of the GCpedia enterprise wiki, and GCconnex professional networking platforms. That experience convinced him that open really is better, and today he is leading the public consultations on Canada’s Plan on Open Government.
Thom has been involved in all aspects of Web 2.0, (and Web 1.0), including tools, information management, governance, policy development, and most importantly the adoption of collaborative behaviors across the Public Service.
Day 1 – Case Studies & Workshop – Regulatory Engagement
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Dan Burns is responsible for the airworthiness and quality of all aircraft designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace worldwide.
He began his 30-year aerospace career with Boeing Canada at the de Havilland site in Toronto as a methods engineer. Following Bombardier’s acquisition of de Havilland in June 1992, he assumed positions of increased responsibility within the airworthiness function, including Dash 8 Series 200 domestic and foreign certification programs, and leading the tri-partite type approval of the all-new QSeries 400 airliner by Canada, United States and Europe. He was named Airworthiness Manager in 1997.
Mr. Burns was appointed Chief Airworthiness Engineer for all of Bombardier Aerospace in April 2002, relocating to Montreal. He is responsible for all airworthiness activities related to new and existing Bombardier designs including changes and the continued airworthiness of these products. Additionally, he assumed responsibility for daily operations and development of Bombardier’s DAO.
In 2005, he assumed the additional responsibilities for Core Configuration Management and product safety oversight. In 2018, he assumed further responsibilities for the Bombardier Core Quality Assurance and Safety Office.
Mr. Burns graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical University in Toronto in 1986 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Diploma in Aerospace Engineering.
He is based at Bombardier Aerospace headquarters in Montreal, Canada.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Engagement
Dave Turnbull has been the Director of National Aircraft Certification for Transport Canada Civil Aviation since 2010.
He has been with TCCA for 26 years which has included roles as a propulsion specialist in the Engineering group, as well as a Project Certification Manager and later Chief of Certification Project Management.
He has worked in industry prior to his time at TCCA, including several years at both Pratt & Whitney Canada and Ontario Hydro Nuclear Division. Dave is married with two teenage children and is an avid sailor and adventure motorcyclist.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Engagement
Leanne is Executive Director of Stakeholder Relations and Intergovernmental Initiatives with the Government of Nova Scotia’s Office of Regulatory Affairs and Service Effectiveness. The Office, created three years ago, has a mandate to reduce regulatory barriers to starting, operating or growing a business in Nova Scotia. The Office leads and advances regulatory reform and modernization within the province; it also works with its Atlantic neighbours on regional regulatory reconciliation through a “Joint Office”.
Before joining the Government of Nova Scotia in 2015, Leanne spent 20 years working in public policy, specifically as it relates to business growth and economic development, in non-government environments. She spent 6 years working as a journalist in Northern Ontario, Alberta and Nova Scotia; 10 years with a national small business advocacy group, including as Atlantic Canada’s Vice-President, and three years as on the Executive Leadership Team and leading the stakeholder relations strategy at Canada’s first regulated energy efficiency utility, EfficiencyOne.
Leanne holds an honours degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario, a diploma in journalism from Mount Royal University in Calgary and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Dalhousie University.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Engagement
Laura Jones is the Executive Vice-President and Chief Strategic Officer of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). In this position, Laura is responsible for the Federation’s legislative, marketing and communications, research, and IT functions.
Laura believes good public policy is based on a thorough understanding of how policy affects people. She is passionate about issues that don’t get enough public attention, such as the cost of red tape, the impact of municipal overspending and the critical role that small businesses play in the economy. Her solution-oriented approach has led to government implementation of her policy recommendations in areas as diverse as tax administration, regulation and fisheries management.
Laura is an expert on regulatory reform and has led groundbreaking research on the costs of regulation in Canada and in the U.S. Her work in this area has been published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Laura has served on a number of government committees including the Federal Advisory Committee on Paperwork Burden Reduction, the Federal Red Tape Reduction Commission, the Federal Regulatory Advisory Committee and the British Columbia Expert Panel on Tax Competitiveness. She is currently on the board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and CFIB.
Since joining CFIB in 2003, Laura has spearheaded a number of high-profile campaigns on behalf of small businesses, including CFIB’s annual Red Tape Awareness WeekTM and the ‘Park the Tax’ campaign that convinced the BC government to get rid of a new property tax on parking in the Lower Mainland.
As a leader, Laura believes in continually challenging herself and others to grow. She is proud of establishing a CFIB/Scotiabank Internship in Public Policy that gets rave reviews from students.
Prior to joining CFIB, Laura worked for the Fraser Institute where she created a Centre for Studies in Risk and Regulation, developed an annual survey of mining companies, authored book on fisheries management and published a number of policy studies on resource use and regulation.
Laura received her B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and her M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She has taught economics at Coquitlam College and at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Cooperation
Jean-Guy Forgeron was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Regulatory Affairs Sector at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, on November 9, 2015.
Mr. Forgeron was previously Chief of Staff to the Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary of the Cabinet from August 2013 to October 2015. Prior to this, from December 2009 until August 2013, he was Director of Operations in the Economic and Regional Development Policy Secretariat of the Privy Council Office (PCO) where he was responsible for providing advice and support to Cabinet committees on a range of issues, including environmental policy, natural resources, energy, fisheries, and agricultural policy. Before joining PCO, he held positions in various federal departments, including: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, where he was Director of Strategic Priorities and then later the Director General of Strategic Priorities and Planning; and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, where he was Director of Ministerial Liaison and Departmental Assistant to the Minister of State.
Originally from Isle Madame, Nova Scotia, Mr. Forgeron has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science from Dalhousie University and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Carleton University.
Kevin Perry works in Cabinet Office for the Government of Ontario. In September 2016, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Planning, Red Tape and Regulatory Burden Reduction.
Kevin is a senior member of Cabinet Office’s Open For Business (OFB) division, whose mandate is to reduce red tape and regulatory burden across the government. Cutting red tape will lower business costs and help make Ontario companies more competitive, while maintaining rules that keep Ontarians healthy.
Kevin is responsible for three of OFB’s branches: Red Tape Policy, the Reducing Regulatory Costs for Business Act, and Intergovernmental Harmonization and Red Tape Challenges. He is also the Premier’s appointee as Ontario’s representative on the Regulatory Reconciliation and Cooperation Table (RCT). The RCT is a federal-provincial-territorial body established under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement, which came into effect in July 2017. The RCT is overseeing a regulatory reconciliation process to address barriers to trade that companies experience when doing business across Canada.
Kevin joined the Ontario Public Service in 1991. He has extensive experience at a number of line ministries and central agencies, such as Cabinet Office and Treasury Board Secretariat. Kevin has applied his transformative leadership skills in the areas of health, transportation, the environment, shared services and organizational design. His areas of focus have included corporate policy, operational policy, program design, operations, human resources, I&IT, finance, program evaluation, performance measurement and research.
Kevin was born and raised in Toronto, and has a B.A. in Political Studies and Geography from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Cooperation
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Maria Iafano is International Standards Manager, Canada, Mexico & Latin America at Underwriters Laboratories Inc. She represents UL in Canada, Mexico and across Latin America and manages UL’s collaborative MOUs with partners across the Region. Maria also serves as Chair of the Standards Technical Panel 2984 currently developing a guidance standard for regulators for the management of public risk. She also participates in several national and international standards development committees and policy forums.
Prior to joining UL, Maria was Director, Legislative Policy at the Electrical Safety Authority in Ontario where she was responsible for developing and directing ESA’s government affairs and regulatory policy strategies. She also served as Chair of the National Public Safety Advisory Committee and has presented at several international conferences on regulatory policy and the use of standards as a regulatory tool.
Ms Iafano has over eighteen years’ experience in regulatory and public safety oversight working in various capacities within the provincial government, private industry and non-governmental organizations.
Ms. Iafano holds an Honours BA in International Relations, a Master’s Degree in International Affairs, a Masters Certificate in Marketing Communications Leadership, and Executive training in Regulatory Impact Analysis and Regulatory Compliance from the Schulich School of Business, the Harvard Kennedy School and the Luiss School of Government.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Cooperation
Maria Iafano is International Standards Manager, Canada, Mexico & Latin America at Underwriters Laboratories Inc. She represents UL in Canada, Mexico and across Latin America and manages UL’s collaborative MOUs with partners across the Region. Maria also serves as Chair of the Standards Technical Panel 2984 currently developing a guidance standard for regulators for the management of public risk. She also participates in several national and international standards development committees and policy forums.
Prior to joining UL, Maria was Director, Legislative Policy at the Electrical Safety Authority in Ontario where she was responsible for developing and directing ESA’s government affairs and regulatory policy strategies. She also served as Chair of the National Public Safety Advisory Committee and has presented at several international conferences on regulatory policy and the use of standards as a regulatory tool.
Ms Iafano has over eighteen years’ experience in regulatory and public safety oversight working in various capacities within the provincial government, private industry and non-governmental organizations.
Ms. Iafano holds an Honours BA in International Relations, a Master’s Degree in International Affairs, a Masters Certificate in Marketing Communications Leadership, and Executive training in Regulatory Impact Analysis and Regulatory Compliance from the Schulich School of Business, the Harvard Kennedy School and the Luiss School of Government.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Cooperation
Doug is the Executive Lead, AGCO NEXT at the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), an arm’s length regulatory agency overseeing the province’s gaming, alcohol and horse racing industries. Doug is currently helping to disrupt and re-imagine the agency for the 21st Century as well as leading the development of AGCO’s leadership culture through AGCO NEXT. In his role, Doug also provides strategic advice to the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Committee and AGCO Board on a wide range of complex internal strategies and initiatives.
Since joining the AGCO, Doug has served in a number of diverse roles including in Strategy and Policy, Legal Services, Operations, and Communications and Corporate Affairs. Doug co-led the successful merger of the Ontario Racing Commission with the AGCO, has played a key role in the AGCO’s transition towards risk-based, outcomes-based, and compliance-focused regulation, and helped to lead the establishment of strategic planning and data analytics capacities at the AGCO. Doug received his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario, graduating with distinction, and his Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (minor in History) from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Instrument Choice
Karen has worked for 14 years at Environment and Climate Change Canada, committed to helping stakeholders understand and navigate regulatory requirements.
She is well known in the Department as a behavioural insights enthusiast, early adopter, and passionate promoter, building capacity by challenging colleagues to break away from the status quo.
With a degree in Environmental Engineering, she never would have predicted diving into the intersecting worlds of psychology and economics. But, a few years ago she stumbled upon the emerging field of behavioural insights, and was instantly hooked instantly on its potential for the Department.
Currently she is delighted to be part of a regulatory policy team, who are fully embracing regulatory innovation by undertaking a very unique project. This team is using their risk management experience to identify and explore opportunities for use of behavioural insights throughout the regulatory cycle to improve results –from instrument design through to implementation and evaluation.
Prior to her move into Government, Karen worked as a consulting engineer, firstly in Sydney, Australia, and then moving onto Vancouver. While this meant many field days in westcoast rain, slush, and contaminated mud, at least there were no longer deadly black snakes and spiders to deal with on site.
Aly is a graduate of the joint Law-MBA program at McGill University.
Prior to entering law school, Aly completed a degree in pharmacy at the University of Toronto and worked in the areas of health policy and economics. His main focus has been the development of strategies to leverage responsive innovation and disruption within professional service firms.
His white paper “The Illusion of Innovation at Canadian Law Firms” was accepted by the Academy of Management at their Annual Meeting in 2017 and was covered extensively in the media, including in the National Post, Lawyers’ Weekly and Lexpert. A more recent paper adapted from his thesis, “An Exodus Explained: Millennials at Law Firms” has been featured in several legal publications and is currently undergoing peer review. Aly has worked in multiple diverse areas including health systems in East Africa, business and management strategy at a leading Montreal consulting firm, and in regulatory analysis and foresight at Policy Horizons Canada. He is currently in the midst of a clerkship at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Jour 1 – Case Studies – Instrument Choice
Eric is the Senior Director responsible for foresight at Policy Horizons Canada.
Before joining Horizons, he worked at the Department of Justice Canada, the Privy Council Office, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Senate of Canada and the Ottawa YM-YWCA. He holds degrees in civil and common law from McGill University, and practiced in the areas of privacy and information law.
Day 1 – Case studies – Instrument Choice
Susan is Chief Executive of Spiritus Partners. Spiritus is pioneering digital service records and analytics that bring together clinical asset management, decontamination and sterilization services, and infection control.
Pairing cutting-edge foresight with results-driven pragmatism, Susan draws upon 25 years of executive experience in enterprise sales, product management, technology strategy, corporate development, operational risk management, and cybersecurity.
Susan serves on the Industrial Advisory Board of Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. She speaks frequently at industry conferences, universities and law schools about distributed ledger technology (DLT)/blockchain, analytics, IOT and cybersecurity in critical infrastructure settings.
Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University. She was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Experimentation
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Leigh is leading the delivery of the UK Food Standards Agency’s complex, high impact change initiative: Regulating Our Future. This five-year transformation programme aims to modernise the regulatory environment for food and feed within England, Wales and Northern Ireland, future-proofing it for the 21st century.
A Change professional with +20 years experience in the UK’s central Government, Investment Banking and academia, Leigh is recognised as a creative problem solver and a strong communicator, with the ability to bridge the gap between technology, policy and business to deliver across the spectrum of projects, programmes, change transformations and portfolios.
One of the UK Civil Service Heads of Profession for Project Delivery, Leigh has an extensive track record of applying proficiency in design, management and delivery of cost effective, innovative digital-data-and-technology—enabled solutions to resolve complex problems and realise value for stakeholders. Leigh has worked with the UK Government’s Digital Data and Technology Profession and British Computer Society to promote the opportunities that technology offers for society, and encourage more young people to follow digital professions.
Married with four young children, Leigh lives in his native London.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Experimentation
Hieu Vu is a Director at the Health Products and Food Branch at Health Canada. He has played several senior roles within the Branch over the last 17 years, including in regulatory affairs, transformation, communications and governance.
He is currently leading several innovation and experimentation projects, particularly focused on artificial intelligence. Hieu is the chair of the Canadian Regulatory Affairs Certification Exam committee and holds a science degree from the University of Guelph.
Day 1 – Case studies – Regulatory Experimentation
Patricia Pledge (BA, Carleton 1991; LLB, University of Ottawa, 1994; LLM, Osgoode Hall Law School, 2010; University of Ottawa, Certificate in Regulatory Leadership, 2017) is currently Special Advisor, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat working with both the Regulatory Affairs Sector and Regulatory Reviews team. Her official home is as Senior Counsel with the Advisory and Development Services Section of the Legislative Services Branch of the federal Department of Justice. Prior to her current secondment with TBS, Patricia had been with the Department of Justice since she joined the Health Canada Regulations Section in 1999 as legislative counsel. She spent one year, in 2007 – 2008, as a Senior Drafter with the Transport Canada Regulations Section but otherwise has been with the Advisory and Development Services Section since 2002.
As Special Advisor at Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Reviews in TBS, Patricia is working on aspects of regulatory experimentation, incorporation by reference and other legislative policy issues. As a member of the Advisory and Development Services Section in Justice, in addition to legislative policy development projects, she provided advice to both regulations and legislation drafters in the Drafting Services Group as well as to client departments in respect of their legislative initiatives, focussing on the authority to make regulations. Since 2003, Patricia has been the Chair of the Department of Justice Study Group on Incorporation by Reference. She also provides training to employees of the Department of Justice on the legal limits of regulation-making, generally on the use of incorporation by reference and the Statutory Instruments Act. Patricia is a frequent presenter to the Community of Federal Regulators and was a sessional professor in Statutory Interpretation at the Faculty of Law, Common Law at the University of Ottawa for three years.
Patricia completed a Master of Laws in Administrative Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2010 and the Certificate Program in Regulatory Leadership (Carleton University and University of Ottawa Joint Certificate) in June 2017.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Experimentation
Ian Matheson is an Executive Coach, trainer and facilitator. His areas of expertise include leadership development, strategy, emotional intelligence, governance and communications.
Over the course of his career, Ian held senior executive positions within the Government of Canada, working in policy development, program delivery and corporate services. He has worked in seven departments, including the Privy Council Office and the Treasury Board Secretariat. As a Senior Faculty Member for three years at the Canada School of Public Service, Ian was an executive coach and taught courses in governance, leadership, management and communications.
Ian began his career in the Canadian Armed Forces, serving over 20 years as a pilot and strategic planner for international peacekeeping missions in Haiti and the Middle East.
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Susan is Chief Executive of Spiritus Partners. Spiritus is pioneering digital service records and analytics that bring together clinical asset management, decontamination and sterilization services, and infection control.
Pairing cutting-edge foresight with results-driven pragmatism, Susan draws upon 25 years of executive experience in enterprise sales, product management, technology strategy, corporate development, operational risk management, and cybersecurity.
Susan serves on the Industrial Advisory Board of Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. She speaks frequently at industry conferences, universities and law schools about distributed ledger technology (DLT)/blockchain, analytics, IOT and cybersecurity in critical infrastructure settings.
Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University. She was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Experimentation
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Thom is an award winning teacher, passionate learner and public servant helping to tell stories of growth and navigate changing landscapes.
In 2009 he helped Government of Canada employees to be more open in their dealings between each other through the introduction of the GCpedia enterprise wiki, and GCconnex professional networking platforms. That experience convinced him that open really is better, and today he is leading the public consultations on Canada’s Plan on Open Government.
Thom has been involved in all aspects of Web 2.0, (and Web 1.0), including tools, information management, governance, policy development, and most importantly the adoption of collaborative behaviors across the Public Service.
Day 1 – Case Studies & Workshop – Regulatory Engagement
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Kevin Perry works in Cabinet Office for the Government of Ontario. In September 2016, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Planning, Red Tape and Regulatory Burden Reduction.
Kevin is a senior member of Cabinet Office’s Open For Business (OFB) division, whose mandate is to reduce red tape and regulatory burden across the government. Cutting red tape will lower business costs and help make Ontario companies more competitive, while maintaining rules that keep Ontarians healthy.
Kevin is responsible for three of OFB’s branches: Red Tape Policy, the Reducing Regulatory Costs for Business Act, and Intergovernmental Harmonization and Red Tape Challenges. He is also the Premier’s appointee as Ontario’s representative on the Regulatory Reconciliation and Cooperation Table (RCT). The RCT is a federal-provincial-territorial body established under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement, which came into effect in July 2017. The RCT is overseeing a regulatory reconciliation process to address barriers to trade that companies experience when doing business across Canada.
Kevin joined the Ontario Public Service in 1991. He has extensive experience at a number of line ministries and central agencies, such as Cabinet Office and Treasury Board Secretariat. Kevin has applied his transformative leadership skills in the areas of health, transportation, the environment, shared services and organizational design. His areas of focus have included corporate policy, operational policy, program design, operations, human resources, I&IT, finance, program evaluation, performance measurement and research.
Kevin was born and raised in Toronto, and has a B.A. in Political Studies and Geography from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.
Day 1 – Case Studies – Regulatory Cooperation
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Diane Allan is the President of Measurement Canada, an agency of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. This Agency is responsible for ensuring accuracy in the selling of measured goods, developing and enforcing the laws related to measurement accuracy, approving and inspecting measuring devices and investigating complaints of suspected inaccurate measurement.
Prior to starting her public service career, Diane worked in the biotechnology sector for a few years. In the 90s, she began her public service career managing grants and contributions programs and continually progressed in more senior roles in both policy development and operational delivery within the Health, Agricultural and Transportation portfolios in the Government of Canada.
She has always played a pivotal strategic role in change leadership to help build organizational capacity, continuous engagement and awareness by influencing others and facilitating horizontal linkages and integration within, across and externally with the aim to ensure that the public service is successful in delivering its operational as well as its modernization agenda.
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Day 2 – Case Studies – Risk Based Oversight
Michael Wernick became Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet on January 22, 2016.
Mr. Wernick joined the federal public service in 1981. Since then he has worked in various departments and agencies, including the Department of Finance Canada, Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada, and the Privy Council Office.
He has held several senior leadership roles, including:
Mr. Wernick holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Toronto. He served on the Board of Governors of Carleton University from 2010 to 2017.
In 2012, Mr. Wernick received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Day 1 – Closing Keynote Address
Gérard Étienne recently joined the IOG as Vice President, Leadership Centre. He is responsible for developing curriculum to meet the leadership and governance challenges of the Public Service. As well, Gerard will be called upon to conceive a growth plan for expanding the learning offerings and lead the IOG as a preferred service provider in leadership and governance. His other responsibilities center around international development, more precisely support to emerging countries in structuring their public service.
Prior to joining the IOG, Gerard worked as Vice-President Operations for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. He was accountable for the delivery of a multi-faceted, comprehensive, regulatory inspection and audit regime for the agricultural, fish and seafood, and agri-food sectors. Gerard has held positions in human resources as a vice president and director general. He has experience both in the public sector and private sector, where he worked as a vice president at the Toronto-Dominion Bank.
Gérard is a passionate advocate for Human Rights and Employment Equity. He consistently demonstrates strong leadership on issues pertaining to diversity within the Public Service, as a means to improving innovation, leadership, technical excellence and employee engagement.
Gérard has completed his course curricula and his comprehensive exams for a PhD in Industrial Relations. He holds a Masters’ degree in Industrial Relations from l'Université du Québec à Hull; an MBA from l’Université du Québec à Montréal; a Masters’ degree in Education from the University of Ottawa, a Bachelor of Social Sciences and a Bachelor of Administration from the University of Ottawa. He was conferred the designation “Fellow” by the Institute of Canadian Bankers with Honours. Most recently, Gérard graduated from the University of Ottawa Certificate Program in Public Sector Leadership and Governance and was named Valedictorian of his class.
Day 2 – Welcome Address
Event Emcee
Tina Green was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of Health Canada's Regulatory Operations and Regions Branch in March 2017.
Tina began her career as an analytical chemist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. She subsequently held positions in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, the Privy Council Office, and Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development Canada.
Tina joined Health Canada in 2009 as Director of the Risk Management Bureau in the Safe Environments Directorate, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch (HECSB). In 2012, she became Director General of HECSB’s Consumer Product Safety Directorate. In February 2016, Tina assumed the role of the Special Advisor to the ADM of the newly established Regulatory Operations and Regions Branch, assisting with the Branch’s transition to full operating capacity. In October 2016, she acted as the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada, until she joined RORB in March 2017.
Tina holds an M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Waterloo.
Day 2 – Closing Remarks
Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he currently serves as the director of the Penn Program on Regulation and has served as the law school’s Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs. He specializes in the study of regulation and regulatory processes, with an emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative regulatory strategies and the role of public participation, negotiation, and business-government relations in policy making. His most recent books include: Achieving Regulatory Excellence; Does Regulation Kill Jobs?; Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation; Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy; and Regulation and Regulatory Processes.
Prior to joining Penn Law, Coglianese spent a dozen years on the faculty at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also has taught as a visiting law professor at Stanford and Vanderbilt, founded the Law & Society Association’s international collaborative research network on regulatory governance, served as a founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance, and created and now advises the daily production of The Regulatory Review.
The chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States' committee on rulemaking, he has led a National Science Foundation initiative on e-rulemaking, served on the ABA’s task force on improving Regulations.Gov, and chaired a task force on transparency and public participation in the regulatory process that offered a blueprint to the Obama Administration on open government. He is a co-chair of the American Bar Association’s administrative law section committee on e-government, past co-chair of the section's committee on rulemaking, and a past member of the section's Council.
He currently serves as a member of a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine studying performance-based safety regulation and of an Aspen Institute dialogue on energy policy governance. He has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, Environment Canada, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Day 1 – Keynote Presentations
Florentin Blanc is generally regarded as one of the leading global experts on regulatory inspection systems. He has been working for nearly fifteen years on regulatory and public administration issues for the World Bank Group - with some short-term assignments for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union Member States governments.
His expertise is particularly recognized in the field of regulatory enforcement and inspections, and he also has considerable experience with licensing and permits reform, as well as technical regulations and food safety issues. Risk-based regulation is at the core of his work. He has led or participated in reform projects on these issues all over the world, working in or doing research on over 35 countries in total, and has written major research and guidance papers on these topics published by the World Bank Group, the OECD and the Government of the Netherlands, as well as many academic contributions.
Among his areas of focus are questions of risk-based regulatory enforcement, drivers of compliance and safety, improvements in performance management and governance of regulatory delivery institutions, and methods and tools of control. He has worked across a number of regulatory domains, particularly food safety, product regulation and occupational safety.
He holds a PhD in Law in Leiden University (NL) on how risk-based inspections and enforcement can contribute to improving regulatory outcomes (public welfare) while also reducing the economic costs of regulation and strengthening state legitimacy.
Day 2 – Keynote Presentations
Day 2 – Case Studies – Risk Based Oversight
John Ossowski was appointed President of Canada Border Services Agency on December 7th, 2016.
Prior to this appointment, John was Deputy Commissioner of Canada Revenue Agency from July 2015 to December 2016. He has also held senior positions as Associate Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada and also as Assistant Secretary, International Affairs, Security and Justice Sector, at the Treasury Board Secretariat. He has also worked at Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) where he was Director General, Policy and Communications and then Deputy Chief, Corporate Services. Before joining CSEC, John was Assistant Director, Government Relationships and Communications at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, which is Canada's financial intelligence unit. Prior to this, John spent a number of years at TBS in the Government Operations Sector and finally as the Executive Assistant to the Secretary.
John has a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Victoria.
Day 2 – Keynote Presentations
Alyssa is a strategy and risk leader with significant experience in the health sector and other areas of government as it relates to corporate strategy, risk management, compliance and analytics.
Alyssa joined the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in October 2016 to lead its new Integrated Risk Management Directorate. She has helped to promote the effective application and implementation of risk management practices across and within all levels of risk managed by the CFIA. Alyssa has also played an integral role in CFIA communication and awareness building activities to promote a more risk-informed culture. In March 2018, Alyssa was designated as the Chief Risk Executive for the CFIA in recognition of her ground-breaking efforts in risk analytics and her successful spearheading of many risk-related change initiatives.
Alyssa worked previously at eHealth Saskatchewan from 2013 to fall 2016. As the Vice-President of Strategy, Quality and Risk Management, Alyssa oversaw enterprise risk management (including Privacy, Security and Patient Safety), corporate strategic services, legal and policy, information governance, analytics, and the delivery of Health Registry services, including Vital Statistics and Health Coverage. She also launched the open government initiative with the City of Regina.
Alyssa has a Master’s degree in Public Administration with a major in Public Policy from the University of Regina and is a certified Information Privacy Professional. Alyssa is passionate about helping others. She served as a long-standing Board Member for Sofia House in Regina, a second stage housing program for victims of domestic violence.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Risk Based Oversight
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Diane Allan is the President of Measurement Canada, an agency of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. This Agency is responsible for ensuring accuracy in the selling of measured goods, developing and enforcing the laws related to measurement accuracy, approving and inspecting measuring devices and investigating complaints of suspected inaccurate measurement.
Prior to starting her public service career, Diane worked in the biotechnology sector for a few years. In the 90s, she began her public service career managing grants and contributions programs and continually progressed in more senior roles in both policy development and operational delivery within the Health, Agricultural and Transportation portfolios in the Government of Canada.
She has always played a pivotal strategic role in change leadership to help build organizational capacity, continuous engagement and awareness by influencing others and facilitating horizontal linkages and integration within, across and externally with the aim to ensure that the public service is successful in delivering its operational as well as its modernization agenda.
Day 1 – Report Back Plenary
Day 2 – Case Studies – Risk Based Oversight
Florentin Blanc is generally regarded as one of the leading global experts on regulatory inspection systems. He has been working for nearly fifteen years on regulatory and public administration issues for the World Bank Group - with some short-term assignments for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union Member States governments.
His expertise is particularly recognized in the field of regulatory enforcement and inspections, and he also has considerable experience with licensing and permits reform, as well as technical regulations and food safety issues. Risk-based regulation is at the core of his work. He has led or participated in reform projects on these issues all over the world, working in or doing research on over 35 countries in total, and has written major research and guidance papers on these topics published by the World Bank Group, the OECD and the Government of the Netherlands, as well as many academic contributions.
Among his areas of focus are questions of risk-based regulatory enforcement, drivers of compliance and safety, improvements in performance management and governance of regulatory delivery institutions, and methods and tools of control. He has worked across a number of regulatory domains, particularly food safety, product regulation and occupational safety.
He holds a PhD in Law in Leiden University (NL) on how risk-based inspections and enforcement can contribute to improving regulatory outcomes (public welfare) while also reducing the economic costs of regulation and strengthening state legitimacy.
Day 2 – Keynote Presentations
Day 2 – Case Studies – Risk Based Oversight
As Programme Director, Will is responsible for developing a national capability to regulate the UK product safety system, based in the newly formed Office for Product Safety and Standards.
This includes the establishment of a strategic scientific research programme, in-house testing and technical advice capability, intelligence hub, consumer engagement and behavioural insights programme, incident management, risk analysis and enforcement teams. He also has oversight of the work of the National Measurement Office which includes UK legal metrology, certification and type approval. He has a track record in developing and delivering UK Government regulatory strategies, previously for food safety and integrity and animal health and welfare.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Risk Based Oversight
Christopher Hodges is Professor of Justice Systems at the University of Oxford; a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford; and Head of the Swiss Re/CMS Research Programme on Civil Justice Systems at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, where he has been since 2004.
He graduated from New College, Oxford in 1976, obtained his PhD from King’s College, London in 2003. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1979 and practised from 1977 to 2003 in major City of London law firms, on a pan-EU basis.
From 2011-2014 he was Erasmus Professor of the Fundamentals of Private Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He was Honorary Professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, and Guest Professor at Wuhan University, China (2013 to 2016); Visiting Professor at Leuven University’s Global Law School Programme (2013) and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra (2014).
His research covers all EU regulatory and dispute resolution systems, aiming to devise an effective, integrated and balanced civil justice and regulatory model for European states. His books include Ethical Business Practice & Regulation (with Ruth Steinholtz, forthcoming), Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries (with Sonia Macleod, forthcoming), Law and Corporate Behaviour: Integrating Theories of Regulation and Enforcement (Hart, 2015), Consumer ADR in Europe (with Benöhr and Creutzfeldt, Hart, 2012), The Costs and Funding of Civil Litigation (Hart, 2010), The Reform of Class and Representative Actions in European Legal Systems: A New Approach to Collective Redress in Europe (Hart, 2008), European Regulation of Consumer Product Safety (Oxford, 2005), Multi-Party Actions (Oxford, 2001), and European Product Liability (1993).
His advice is sought by the European Commission, European Parliament, numerous governments, regulatory authorities, ombudsmen, multinational businesses and consumer associations across the world. In 2017 he has given major speeches at UNCTAD, OECD, the US-EU Mentor group, and the Centre for Information Policy.
He is a Board Member of the UK Research Integrity Office, and of the Foundation for Law Justice and Society. He is co-coordinator of the pan-EU Civil Justice Systems Project, and the Stanford-Oxford Global Class Actions Project. He has a special interest in health systems, and has chaired various committees in the sector, including the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee for England and an international committee of regulatory authorities and businesses on regulatory strategy in the medical devices sector.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Ethical Business Regulations (EBR)
Day 2 – Report Back Plenary
Marcus Rink is the Chief Inspector of Drinking Water, appointed in August 2015. He has worked for the Department of Environment, (DEFRA), in various roles for 20 years. As Chief Inspector he provides independent scrutiny of the water industry ensuring the safety and quality of water and public confidence through a robust regulatory framework. His role encompasses a range of statutory and non-statutory functions, discharging the duties of the Secretary of State for England and the Welsh Government to ensure companies meet their regulatory requirements and Local Authorities take action in respect of water supplies.
Marcus is a member of: The EU expert group for the Drinking Water Directive; The Advisory EU Microbiology Expert Group; The European Network of Drinking Water Regulators and the Chair of the Standing Committee of Analysts who produce independent methodology for water and environmental laboratories. Previously Marcus was the Chair of the Drinking Water Group and a member of the Environmental Water Group for Public Health England at the London 2012 Olympics.
Marcus is a Chartered Biologist, a Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. His career in the Health Authority, Public Analysts, Severn Trent Water and at the Drinking Water Inspectorate spans over 30 years of Regulation and Enforcement, health, environment and water.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Ethical Business Regulations (EBR)
Isabelle Des Chênes joined CIAC in November 2017 and leads the Association’s strategic communications and government and stakeholder relations initiatives. Prior to joining CIAC, Isabelle was Director of Communications for the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA).
She spent eleven years in the natural resources sector in a number of progressive positions including as VP, Market Relations and International Trade with the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and VP, Market Relations for British Columbia’s Forestry Innovation Investment, Inc. Isabelle holds a BA, Communications from the University of Ottawa.
Day 2 – Case Studies – Ethical Business Regulations (EBR)
Taki Sarantakis is the President of the Canada School of Public Service, a position he assumed in July 2018.
From 2016 to 2018, Mr. Sarantakis was the Associate Secretary of the Treasury Board, a statutory Committee of Cabinet that governs most governmental expenditures and program authorities. This appointment followed three years as Assistant Secretary, Economic Sector at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, where he was responsible for providing ongoing support and advice to 28 departments and agencies and 15 Crown corporations on issues related to science and technology, environment, venture capital, innovation, regional economic development, infrastructure, natural resources, transportation and agriculture.
Prior to this, Mr. Sarantakis was the Assistant Deputy Minister of Policy and Communications at Infrastructure Canada. During his time there, he played a major role in the policy design and program delivery for the Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund, the Border Infrastructure Fund, the Municipal-Rural Infrastructure Fund, all program initiatives under the $33 billion Building Canada Plan and $5 billion of stimulus programming announced in Budget 2009, including the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund.
In 2011, Mr. Sarantakis was awarded Canada’s Public Service Award of Excellence in Policy, and in 2013 he was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Prior to joining the federal government, Mr. Sarantakis was a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and he also holds a B.A. (Specialized Hon., 1992) and a Master of Arts (1993) from York University in Toronto. He is a graduate of the Rothman School of Management/Institute of Corporate Directors Director Education Program, holding the ICD.D designation.
Day 2 – Keynote Address