NOVEMBER 26-27, 2018
OTTAWA CONFERENCE & EVENT CENTRE
200 COVENTRY ROAD, OTTAWA ON K1K 4S3
Read the Summary Report which highlights the key takeaways and messages that were developed during the November conference.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
CASE STUDIES
Instrument Choice
Regulatory Experimentation
Regulatory Engagement
Regulatory Cooperation
WORKSHOPS
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
CASE STUDIES
Risk Based Oversight
Ethical Business Regulations
Transformation of Regulatory Services
Emerging Technologies in Regulation
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
WORKSHOPS
© 2018 Institute of Public Administration of Canada
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.