David Strangway will chair the selection panel that will oversee the establishment of Ontario Research Chairs at universities across the province announced the Council of Ontario Universities on May 26.
Strangway is the former president and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation and past president of the University of British Columbia.
Former deputy minister of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Harry Swain will serve as the panel’s secretary.
Other members of the panel are Judith Maxwell, founding president of the Canadian Policy Research Networks; Arthur May, former president of Memorial University and of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council; and Harold Shapiro, president emeritus of Princeton University and former president of the University of Michigan.
The chairs were announced in the 2005 Ontario Budget introduced on May 11. The government pledged $25 million to establish the chairs, which will focus on leading-edge research in eight key areas of public policy.
For more information, see orc.cou.on.ca.
