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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
Members

Paul Bates
Dean, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
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Sean Caulfield
Canada Research Chair in Printmaking
University of Alberta
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Kerry Day
Edmonton, AB
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Angela Ferrante
Toronto, ON |

Chad Gaffield
President, SSHRC
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Tom Jenkins
Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, OpenText
Waterloo, ON
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Joanne Keselman
Interim 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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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
Victoria, BC |
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Gerri Sinclair
Executive Director, Masters of Digital Media Program
Centre for Digital Media |

Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire
President and Executive Director
Centraide of Greater Montreal |
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Photos: Martin Lipman