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.

Paul K. Bates
Strategic Advisor, McMaster University
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Ginny Dybenko
Executive—Strategic Initiatives,
Wilfrid Laurier University
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Chad Gaffield
President, SSHRC |
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Robert Gibbs
Professor and Director, Jackman Humanities Institute,
University of Toronto
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Tom Jenkins
Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, OpenText
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Joanne Keselman
Vice-President, Academic, and Provost, University of Manitoba
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Danielle Laberge
Administrator and Associate Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
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Christopher Manfredi
Dean, Faculty of Arts, McGill University
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Nelson Michaud
Director, Teaching and Research,
École nationale d'administration publique
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Jack Mintz
Director, School of Public Policy,
University of Calgary
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Fred Morley
Executive Vice-President and Chief Economist, Greater Halifax Partnership
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Priscilla Renouf
Professor and Canada Research Chair in North Atlantic Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Suromitra Sanatani
Strategic Counsel, Heenan Blaikie
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Gerri Sinclair
Principal, The Gerri Sinclair Group
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Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire
President and Executive Director,
Centraide of Greater Montreal
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