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Council

SSHRC’s governing council promotes and assists research and scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. It meets regularly to set policy and program priorities, allocate budgets and to advise the minister of industry and Parliament on research policy in these areas.

The vice-president of SSHRC’s governing council chairs its meetings and plays a key role in strengthening the council’s ability to:

Council members elect the vice-president, subject to approval by the Governor-in-Council.

Vice-President and Chair

Thomas Kierans
Thomas Kierans
 

Members

Paul Bates
Paul K. Bates
Strategic Advisor, McMaster University

  Ginny Dybenko
Ginny Dybenko
Executive—Strategic Initiatives, Wilfrid Laurier University
Chad Gaffield
Chad Gaffield
President, SSHRC
  Robert Gibbs Robert Gibbs
Professor and Director, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto

Tom Jenkins
Tom Jenkins
Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, OpenText

  Joanne Keselman
Joanne Keselman
Vice-President, Academic, and Provost, University of Manitoba
Danielle Laberge
Danielle Laberge
Administrator and Associate Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal

  Christopher Manfredi
Christopher Manfredi
Dean, Faculty of Arts, McGill University

Nelson Michaud
Nelson Michaud
Director, Teaching and Research, École nationale d'administration publique

  Jack Mintz
Jack Mintz
Director, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary


Fred Morley
Fred Morley
Executive Vice-President and Chief Economist, Greater Halifax Partnership


  Priscilla Renouf
Priscilla Renouf
Professor and Canada Research Chair in North Atlantic Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Suromitra Sanatani
Suromitra Sanatani
Strategic Counsel, Heenan Blaikie

  Gerri Sinclair
Gerri Sinclair
Principal, The Gerri Sinclair Group
Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire
Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire
President and Executive Director, Centraide of Greater Montreal
   

Photos: Martin Lipman