IPC Ad Hoc Strategic Advisory Committee 2020-21

Matthew Anderson, President and CEO of Ontario Health, is an experienced health care leader, team-builder, and advocate for positive change. He is widely respected across Ontario’s health care system for his intense focus on the needs and experiences of patients and caregivers. Before joining Ontario Health, Matthew was President and CEO of Lakeridge Health, one of the largest community hospital systems in the province. He lead the operation of five hospitals with four emergency departments and more than 5,000 physicians and staff, working with community partners to build a regional system of care for families in the Durham Region.

At Ontario Health, Matthew is leading one of the largest mergers in healthcare history bringing together 20 agencies and over 12,000 staff.

Matthew began his career in data analytics and IT and has risen quickly through the ranks. He became Chief Information Officer of University Health Network (UHN) in 1998, and a Vice President at UHN in 2000. In 2008, he was named CEO of the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network and in 2010, became CEO of William Osler Health System. Matthew Anderson is married with three children and numerous pets.

Lisa Austin is a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, where she holds the Chair in Law and Technology. Professor Austin is committed to interdisciplinary work in law and technology. She is a Research Lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, co-founder of the Information Technology, Transparency, and Transformation (IT3) Lab at the University of Toronto, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (status only). Professor Austin's research and teaching interests include privacy law, legal theory, and private law. Her privacy work has been cited numerous times by Canadian courts and she was one of the inaugural winners of the University of Toronto President’s Impact Award. Professor Austin holds both a law and doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the faculty, she served as law clerk to Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Vass Bednar (@VassB) is the Executive Director of McMaster University's Master of Public Policy in Digital Society. She is an interdisciplinary wonk focused on ensuring that we have the regulatory structures we need to embrace the future of work and new ways of living. As an enthusiastic and perpetual student of the policymaking process, she has held leadership roles at Delphia, Airbnb, Queen's Park, the City of Toronto, and University of Toronto. Vass is recognized as a creative, data-driven thinker and was the Chair of the federal government's Expert Panel on Youth Employment. A graduate of McMaster University's Arts & Science Program, Vass holds her Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the University of Toronto and successfully completed Action Canada and Civic Action DiverseCity Fellowships. Passionate about public dialogue, she was also the co-host of "Detangled," a weekly pop-culture and public policy radio show and podcast that ran from 2016-2018. She currently writes a newsletter about Canadian startups and public policy called "regs to riches" and was recently recognized as an outstanding alum with a McMaster "Arch" award.

Nicole Bonnie has dedicated her professional life to creating sustainable change at the systemic level in child welfare. In 2019, she was named the first Black CEO in the history of the Ontario Children’s Aid Societies and in the province’s child welfare sector. She has championed prevention strategies through community development and addressing service disparities to marginalized identities. Currently, in her role as the CEO at the Ontario Association of Children’s AidSocieties, Nicole oversees provincial child welfare initiatives and remains committed to equity integration at all levels of provincial work, including CAS learning, policies, governance, service excellence, and research and data. Nicole continues to be a strong advocate and champion of marginalized children, youth, and families, and works to centre their voice and needs in government relations and legislative initiatives. She has made an extraordinary difference in the lives of children, youth, and families in the Ontario child welfare system.

For the past 28 years, Rod has held senior leadership positions in Information Management portfolios developing and implementing multiple Information Management and corporate strategic plans in hospitals, LHINs, and Community-based Primary Care. Today, Rod serves as the inaugural Chief Information Officer for the Alliance for Healthier Communities, Ontario’s leading association of comprehensive interprofessional primary health care organizations.

Rod received a B.Sc. (Hons) in Medical Physiology from the University of Western Ontario in 1988 and a Masters of Health Administration from the University of Ottawa in 1992.

Rod is active in the professional community and a strong believer in ongoing professional development. He is Past President of the Ontario Chapter of the Health Information and Management Systems Society and Past President of the Southwestern Ontario Chapter of the Canadian College of Health Leaders. Rod earned his designation as a Certified Health Executive in 1993. He was awarded his Fellowship designation in June 2018 and became one of only 70 recipients across Canada. Rod holds a Senior designation with the Health Information & Management Systems Society and was one of the first five to earn the CPHIMS-CA credential from Digital Health Canada. He earned the CHCIO designation from the College of Health Information Management Executives in 2019 and the Certified Data Protection Solutions Engineer credential from ISACA in 2020.

Rod’s current professional interests lay in health system leadership, consumer digital healthcare, and institutional knowledge management.

Robert (Bob) Fay is the Managing Director of digital economy research at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) that assesses and provides policy recommendations for the complex global governance issues arising from digital technologies. He brings to this position extensive experience in macro- and micro-economic research and policy analysis. Prior to joining CIGI, Bob held several senior roles at the Bank of Canada (BoC), most recently as Senior Director overseeing work to assess developments and implications arising from the digitization of the Canadian economy. As Deputy Director of the International Department at the BoC, he assessed global economic developments and their implications for Canada and investigated a wide variety of issues, including those related to the international monetary system and global financial architecture. He has also led the BoC’s Canadian short-term forecasting team and set up and led its first research division related to structural analysis, focusing on labour markets, productivity, and exchange rate analysis. Bob was also Special Assistant to BoC Governor Mark Carney, serving as the Governor’s Chief of Staff. Prior to joining the BoC, Bob was an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and worked on a range of economic and labour market issues.

Rebecca Finlay, Vice-President, Engagement and  Public Policy, at the Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Research (CIFAR), founded its global knowledge mobilization practice in 2014, bringing together experts in industry, civil society, healthcare, and government to accelerate the societal impact of CIFAR’s research programs. In 2017, she was responsible for the launch of CIFAR’s AI & Society program to support international working groups on the questions AI poses for all aspects of policy and society. She leads the Institute’s partnerships with governments in Canada and worldwide. In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Prior to joining CIFAR, Rebecca held leadership roles in research and civil society organizations as well as the private sector. She has served on hospital, foundation, and non-profit boards of directors and holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and McGill University.

Charles joined Futurpreneur Canada in January of 2020 as Chief Experience Officer helping young entrepreneurs across the country with financing and mentorship to launch new businesses. He co-founded and is Past-Chair of the Board for Code for Canada, the country’s leading civic-tech organization, and is a founding board member of the Civic Digital Network, a new national non-profit enabling civic digital and data infrastructure. He is also on the Advisory Board of We Count, a research project out of the IDRC at OCAD focused on creating an inclusive data ecosystem. Charles was most recently Vice-Chair of the Digital Strategy Advisory Committee for Waterfront Toronto and for five years was the Global Director of Marketing and Communications at global architecture, engineering, planning, and technology firm IBI Group. He has led transformational digital change through building teams and delivering on strategic initiatives in global roles with MaRS Discovery District, Thomson Reuters, and Critical Mass.

Matthew Johnson is the Director of Education for MediaSmarts, Canada’s center for digital and media literacy. He is the author of many of MediaSmarts’ lessons, parent materials, and interactive resources and a lead on MediaSmarts' research projects. Matthew is the architect of MediaSmarts’ Use, Understand, Create: Digital Literacy Framework for Canadian K-12 Schools and the Media Literacy 101 and Digital Literacy 101 professional development programs. He has contributed blogs and articles to websites and magazines around the world as well as presenting MediaSmarts’ research materials on topics such as copyright, cyberbullying, body image, and online hate to parliamentary committees, academic conferences, and governments and organizations around the world. As a member of the Canadian Pediatric Society's Digital Health Task Force, he participated in the drafting of the CPS recommendations for children's screen time.

Dr. Satyamoorthy Kabilan (Kabi) is an Executive Partner at Gartner, where he serves as a trusted advisor to senior technology leaders, mainly within the Canadian Federal public sector. Previously, as Vice President at the Public Policy Forum, he was in charge of the policy research team, working on a range of major public policy issues including the use of AI, competitiveness in the digital age, the use of APIs in government, digital transformation in government and developing a digital-ready public service. He has also provided expert testimony to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on the issue of cyber security in the financial sector.

Kabi was also a member of the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA’s) Departmental Audit Committee (DAC), where he covered a range of issues including cyber security and project management.

Before joining the Public Policy Forum, Kabi headed up a research group at the Conference Board of Canada, where his team ran a CIO council as well as member-driven groups for IT executives, leaders in cyber security and knowledge management professionals. From the adoption of digital technologies in small and medium enterprises to cyber security for senior executives and boards, Kabi and his team covered a broad range of technology issues, working across the public and private sectors.

During his time in the UK Government, Kabi worked on cyber security with the intelligence services as well as cyber crime with various police forces in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. He also provided the evolving technology threat picture for the UK’s 2011 national counter-terrorism strategy.

Prior to joining the UK Government, Kabi co-founded and managed two technology start-ups. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College, London, a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of Cambridge, and an Executive MBA from the London Business School.

Vivek Krishnamurthy is the Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, and Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC).

Vivek’s teaching, scholarship, and clinical legal practice focus on the complex regulatory and human rights-related challenges that arise in cyberspace. He advises governments, activists, and companies on the human rights impacts of new technologies and is a frequent public commentator on emerging technology and public policy issues.

Vivek was previously the Assistant Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and Counsel in the Corporate Social Responsibility Practice at Foley Hoag LLP. He is a Rhodes Scholar and clerked for the Hon. Morris J. Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada upon his graduation from Yale Law School. Vivek is currently a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and a Senior Associate of the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Eric Labelle leads the City of Greater Sudbury’s Legal and Clerk’s Services Division, with responsibility for provincial offences, City Council governance, and procedure, legal services, municipal elections, records, privacy, and archives. Through his role as City Clerk, Eric has been delegated the responsibility for matters involving the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

Eric joined the Legal Services team in 2004 and has since provided expert services on numerous issues, as well as litigation, procurement, and contractual matters.

Eric began his legal career with the law firm of Desmarais, Keenan L.L.P., where he focused on corporate and commercial litigation.

He obtained his law degree from the University of Ottawa’s common law section in April 2000 and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Laurentian University.

Micheal Miller, Executive Director of the Association of Native Child and Family Service Agencies of Ontario, is an Oji-Cree from Mattagami First Nation North Eastern Ontario. His 25 year career has focused on the social development of indigenous communities. He has served as the Executive Director at Aboriginal Legal Services prior to joining ALS he has served as the Housing Director for the Cochrane District Social Services Administrative Board and played a critical role in opening Living Space a homeless shelter in Timmins. He also served as the Executive Director at Kunuwanimano Child and Family Services and led the agency to become a mandated Children’s Aid Society. He has also spent the early part of his career in the Employment and Training field. He holds a Masters in Business Administration.

Dr. Christopher Parsons is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Citizen Lab, in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy with the University of Toronto.   His research focuses on third-party access to telecommunications data, data privacy, data security, and national security. His work has been recognized by information and privacy commissioners, Canadian political parties, and national and international non-profits as advancing the state of privacy discourse. Christopher received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Guelph, and his Ph.D. from the University of Victoria.

Christopher has written policy reports for civil advocacy organizations in Canada, submitted evidence to and testified before Parliamentary committees, and is an active member of the Canadian privacy advocacy community. He has been involved in projects examining: lawful access legislation, national security, and intelligence legislation and practices, government management of computer security vulnerabilities, identity management systems, automatic license plate recognition technologies, network management and surveillance practices in Western democratic states, technical and policy issues linked to encryption, privacy issues linked to social media services, policy and privacy challenges associated with IMSI Catchers, the privacy implications of unmanned aerial vehicles, and threats associated with stalkerware. In addition to publishing in academic journals and presses, he routinely presents findings to members of government and the media.

John Roberts is the Chief Privacy Officer and Archivist of Ontario, and since May 2020, acting Chief Information Security Officer, at the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services. He has been active in addressing privacy and recordkeeping issues in data and digital initiatives throughout the Ontario public sector, especially in respect of data integration. As acting CISO he now has oversight of the Cybersecurity Strategy, while as Archivist of Ontario he promotes access to the Archives of Ontario’s collections.

John has over thirty years of experience in operational, policy, and senior leadership roles delivering government information management and digital government initiatives. Prior to joining the Ontario Public Service in 2015, he worked in the New Zealand government. His extensive knowledge of information management and privacy protection has contributed to his numerous achievements in policy, strategy, legislation, and modernisation of public sector information management.

John has also held leadership roles in a number of professional associations, has been active in international initiatives, and has frequently published and presented internationally. He holds an MA from Victoria University of Wellington, and a Masters in Information Management and Systems from Monash University in Australia.

Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Canadian Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence and a senior fellow with CIGI’s International Law Research Program. She is the author, co-author or co-editor of numerous books including Digital Commerce in Canada, Law and the Sharing Economy, Canadian Trademark Law, Canadian Intellectual Property Law, and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intellectual Property Law. Her research interests include: privacy law, data governance, intellectual property law, law and technology, law and artificial intelligence, and smart cities.

Colin Stairs is the first Chief Information Officer of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) where he is working to align the information management and information technology capabilities and initiatives to The Way Forward, the TPS strategy to transform and modernize the Service. Colin is focused on achieving benefits of technology-driven transformation by building capacity to deliver on service-oriented design and digital technologies.

Colin was previously a CIO and Digital Transformation Officer in Healthcare, serving in that function at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Lakeridge Health, and Medcan Health Management.  Prior to his career as a CIO, Colin was an independent management consultant in healthcare and public sector, with particular focus on quantitative analytics and operationalizing strategy.   He has developed entrepreneurial and negotiation skills through two startups – in software and in management consulting.  Colin was Dean’s list at the Richard Ivey School of Business MBA and has a mechanical engineering degree from Queen’s University.

Laura Tribe is the Executive Director at OpenMedia, a community-based organization working to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. Laura has a decade of experience advocating for communications policies in the public interest, including issues of connectivity, free expression and privacy. She has testified before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), numerous parliamentary committees, and the Senate of Canada, representing the public interest. In particular, Laura’s focus is on ensuring that the voices of those most impacted are brought to, and amplified in, forums where they may not otherwise be heard, and are a part of creating the solutions aimed to serve them. Laura holds a BA in Media, Information and Technoculture from Western University, and an MA in Communications from Carleton University, where she studied the intersection of human rights and information communications technologies in projects attempting to bridge the digital divide.