CASRAI is governed by Board of Directors elected by the membership. Current board members are:
- Janet E. Halliwell, Principal, J.E. Halliwell Associates Inc.
- Dr. Robert A. Phillips, Deputy Director, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Dr. Amir Attaran, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
- David Baker, Director, eVision Inc.
Janet E. Halliwell (Board Chair)
Janet Halliwell is the Principal of J.E. Halliwell Associates Inc, a company established to offer value-added services in policy and management consultancy relating to post-secondary education and science and technology, particularly publicly funded R&D.
She is well known in the field of research administration, and has held several prominent positions, including Executive Vice-President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Chair of the Nova Scotia Council on Higher Education, Chair of the Science Council of Canada, Director General, and Officer of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. She has advised and consulted widely on S&T policy and research management and administration.
Ms. Halliwell holds degrees from Queen’s University in Kingston and the University of British Columbia. She has received honorary doctorates from seven Canadian universities and is a recipient of the Walter Hitschfeld Prize for university research administration.
Dr. Robert A. Phillips
Dr. Robert A. Phillips is currently the Deputy Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), a centre of excellence dedicated to research in prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
Prior to this position, Dr. Phillips was interim President and CEO of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and assisted in the recruitment of the new President and Scientific Director.
He was also the founding President and CEO of the Ontario Cancer Research Network (OCRN), established by the Government of Ontario in 2002 to accelerate the development of new cancer therapies.
He has held a number of other important positions in cancer research, including Director of the Division of Immunology and Cancer Research at the Hospital for Sick Children and Executive Director of the National Cancer Institute of Canada.
Dr. Phillips received a BA in Chemistry and Zoology from Carleton College in Northfield, MN and a PhD in Molecular Biology from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He was a faculty member in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto and was Chair of the Department from 1981 to 1986. He is a member of the Board of Directors and is National President of Partners in Research.
Dr. Amir Attaran
Dr. Amir Attaran is both a lawyer and a biologist. His research explores the functional linkages between public policy, technology, and human well-being in developing nations.
Dr. Attaran's publications have appeared in well-known Law and biomedical publications such as the Yale and Stanford Journals of International Law, The Lancet, and The Journal of the American Medical Association. He is the co-author of a book on access to medicines in developing countries and has written for the Globe and Mail, Washington Post, New York Times, and International Herald Tribune, among others.
Dr. Attaran has also advised and collaborated with numerous NGOs, UN agencies, governments, and corporations (including the Government of Brazil, Médecins Sans Frontières, Novartis, the UN Development Programme, the World Bank, and his former employer, the Sierra Legal Defence Fund) on aspects of international development, primarily in the area of public health. He also advises various human rights and public health charities, especially in Africa, on a strictly pro bono basis.
David Baker (President)
David Baker is an analyst and consultant based in Ottawa. He is a Director at eVision Inc., an information technology firm with offices in Quebec City, Montreal, and Ottawa, and is a co-founder of CASRAI.
Mr. Baker has been involved in research administration for over 16 years. Prior to eVision, he was Executive Director and CIO of The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation. Under his term, the Foundation saw record fundraising revenues and innovative new uses of information technology applied to Web-based grant application management and fundraising data and event management.