Lynn Barr-Telford works for Statistics Canada.

A researcher and CIRANO Fellow since 2015, Daniel J. Caron holds the Chaire de recherche en exploitation des ressources informationnelles at ÉNAP, where he studies the impact of digital technologies on the functioning of government and public agencies from an information perspective. He teaches public administration and program evaluation and is also an Associate Professor at Carleton University and an Associate Research Fellow of the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital (OBVIA). He founded and co-directed the Information Governance Collection at PUQ. His career has been between research, teaching and management. He spent more than 30 years as a federal public servant in various senior positions. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Université Laval and a doctorate in applied humanities from the Université de Montréal.

Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin joined CIRANO in 2000 as a postdoctoral researcher and was appointed President and CEO in 2016, after serving as Vice-President from 2008 to 2016. Since 2011, she has led the CIRANO Barometer project on risk perception in Quebec, which annually collects data on Quebecers’ concerns regarding 47 major societal issues. She is also Head of the CIRANO Research Pole on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Digital Intelligence and Principal Investigator of the Innovation and Digital Transformation research theme.

She is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, where she also serves as Academic Director of PolyFinances. In addition, she is a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO).

She holds a PhD in Management Science (specializing in risk management and insurance) from the École normale supérieure de Cachan. Her research focuses on risk management and decision-making in contexts of risk and uncertainty, as well as the design and evaluation of public policies. Her work combines economic analysis, cost-benefit analysis, survey data analysis, and more recently, large-scale unstructured data analytics.

In 2008, she founded the RISQH network, a knowledge-sharing and awareness network dedicated to risk management, patient safety, and quality of care in healthcare institutions. She contributed to the development of the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.

She serves as Scientific Director of the Measurement Tools, Monitoring and Surveys Division at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies (OBVIA). She is also co-founder of the International Francophone Network on Scientific Advice (RFICS).

At CIRANO, she leads and contributes to several large-scale research initiatives, notably the creation of an economic digital twin of the St. Lawrence–Great Lakes region (GVCdtLab), developed in collaboration with the federal government.

She has published numerous scientific articles, several books, and more than 40 reports for government and other organizations. She has delivered over one hundred conferences and is regularly invited to speak in the media.

Minister responsible for Access to Information and the Reform of Democratic Institutions

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2001, responsible of the CIRANO Pole on the Socio-economic Impacts of Digital Intelligence and Main Researcher of the theme Skills, Benoit Dostie is Full Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montréal.

He also holds the Power Corporation of Canada Chair in Labour Relations, Compensation and Benefits. Benoit Dostie is also Scientific Director of the Retirement and Savings Institute at HEC Montréal.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University, his research interests are labour economics and applied econometrics.

Pierre-Yves Geoffard is Professor at the Paris School of Economics.

Raphael Lalive is Professor at the University of Lausanne.

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2018, Philip Merrigan is Full Professor at the Department of Economics at the École des sciences de la gestion of the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Université de Montréal, his research interests are labour economics, econometrics, macroeconomics, family work supply and sports teams.

CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2012, Vice-President Strategy and Government Relations and Principal Researcher of the Health theme, Pierre-Carl Michaud is a full professor in the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montréal. He also holds the Jacques-Parizeau Research Chair in Economic Policy.

Holder of a PhD in economics from CentER, Tilburg University, his research focuses on household and public finances and policy evaluation, with an emphasis on the economic consequences of demographic change.

His work has been funded by numerous organisations and his research has been published in leading academic journals. He has received several prizes and awards for his research, including the Marcel-Dagenais Prize (SCSE) and the Esdras-Minville Prize (HEC Montréal). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Researchers and was awarded the Coronation Medal of King Charles III.

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A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow from 1994 to 2021, Claude Montmarquette was Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at the Université de Montréal.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, he held the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec Chair in Experimental Economics at the Université de Montréal and was President and CEO of CIRANO for more than seven years.

Over the course of his career, Professor Montmarquette has been a visiting professor at several universities. He has chaired and participated in numerous committees for the Government of Quebec and has served on many others, both nationally and internationally. He was an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1998) and a Member of the Order of Canada in 2013. He also received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal the same year. Claude Montmarquette received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from McGill University in 2013. In 2016, he was appointed Commander of the Order of Montreal. In 2019, he was named an Officer of the Ordre National du Québec and received the Gérard Parizeau Prize for his work in educational economics.

He is the author or editor of 11 books, 90 scientific articles, and more than 60 public policy papers.

Diane Poitras is Vice-President of the Commission d’accès à l’information.

Chief Scientist of Quebec, Government of Quebec.
President of the 3 Boards of Directors, Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Member of the Board of Directors, Centre Jacques Cartier.

Professor Rémi Quirion is the Chief Scientist of Quebec since July 2011.  Full Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University, he was Scientific Director of the Douglas Institute Research Centre (1996-2011).

In April 2009 he accepted the position of Associate Dean (Life Sciences and Strategic Initiatives), Faculty of Medicine, and Senior University Advisor (Health Sciences Research) at McGill University in addition to the position of Executive Director of the CIHR International Collaborative Research Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease, positions from which he resigned upon his appointment as Chief Scientist in 2011.

He is the Chair of the Boards of Directors of the three Quebec Research Funds (Health - Nature and Technology - Society and Culture).

Rémi Quirion has received numerous distinctions including Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.

Danielle St-Laurent works at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec.

Aklilu Tefera is the Director of Policy Research and Analysis Branch within the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services.

Lars Vilhuber has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Universität Bonn, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. He has worked in both research and government. He has consulted with government and statistical agencies in Canada and the United States.

His interest in statistical disclosure limitation issues is a consequence of his other research interest: working with highly detailed longitudinally linked data to analyze the effects and causes of mass layoffs, worker mobility, and the dynamics of the local labor market.

He is presently on the faculty of the Department of Economics at Cornell University, a Senior Research Associate at the ILR School at Cornell University, Ithaca, Executive Director of ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute, and affiliated with the U.S. Census Bureau (Center for Economic Studies, CES).

Over the years, he has also gained extensive expertise on the data needs of economists and other social scientists, having been involved in the creation and maintenance of several data systems designed with analysis, publication, replicability, and maintenance of large-scale code bases in mind.