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The Honorable Sethuraman Panchanathan is a computer scientist and engineer who serves as the 15th director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Panchanathan was nominated to this position by the President of the United States in 2019, and then unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 18, 2020. NSF is a $9 billion independent federal agency and the only government agency charged with advancing all fields of scientific discovery, technological innovation and STEM education.Panch...
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A native of north-eastern France, Pascal Mayer studied at the University of Strasbourg to earn a doctorate in macromolecular biophysics from the Institut Charles Sadron in 1991. His thesis dealt with the dynamics of DNA under pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and the creation of related automatic optical instrumentation.From 1991 to 1994, he completed a first post-doc at the University of Ottawa, during which he worked on the physics of DNA in gel sequencing and began his research on end-...
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Daniel Alfredsson was born on December 11, 1972, in Göteborg, Sweden, where he grew up playing ice hockey. He played 82 professional games with Frolunda in the Swedish Hockey League for three seasons in the early 1990’s, which led him to be picked in the sixth round of the 1994 NHL draft (133rd overall) by the Ottawa Senators. This pick would culminated in an NHL career spanning 18 seasons.Although Alfredsson had raised few expectations when he was drafted into the NHL, he proved to be a deligh...
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The Honourable Lisa Raitt, BSc, MSc, LLB, P.C. served 11 years as the Conservative MP for Milton (Halton), during which time she served as Deputy Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition and Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, as well as holding various portfolios including Transport, Labour and Natural Resources.Raitt joined CIBC Capital Markets as Vice-Chair and Managing Director, Global Investment Banking in January 2020.Raitt serves on the boards of Leon's Furniture Limited, Pomerl...
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Alexandra Szacka was born into a family of scholars who survived the Holocaust. When Alexandra was 15, she and her family were forced to flee their native Poland to find refuge in France. Shortly afterwards, they left that country to settle in Canada, specifically in Quebec.She began her post-secondary education in the pure science program at the Cégep de Trois-Rivières, before going on to study biochemistry, and then anthropology, at Laval University, where she earned a master’s degree.After w...
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Angela Cooper Brathwaite is a past president of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO), past president of the International Nursing Interest Group and co-chair of RNAO’s Anti-Black Racism Task Force, and an adjunct professor and associate graduate faculty member, Ontario Tech University (OTU). She holds a PhD in Nursing from the University of Toronto (UofT), a Master of Nursing from the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor’s in Nursing from Memorial University, N.L., and is a...
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Albert Dumont is Ottawa’s former English Poet Laureate. He is serving his community as a member of the Grandparents Counsel for Well Living House, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. He has worked as an Elder for the Parole Board of Canada at elder-assisted hearings and was employed by Correctional Services Canada as a spiritual advisor for the Indigenous men incarcerated at Millhaven Institution’s J Unit near Kingston, Ontario.He is an activist, a volunteer and a poet who has published six books ...
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Dr. Cara Tannenbaum is a medical leader, health research expert and government advisor who is internationally recognized for her leadership in drug safety and the integration of sex and gender in health research, education, practice and policy. She co-founded and was the inaugural scientific director of the Canadian Deprescribing Network, a national organization aimed at eliminating inappropriate medication use among seniors. From 2015 to 2022, Dr. Tannenbaum served as the scientific director o...
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Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer was born in Germany in 1928. At the age of 10 she was sent to a children’s home in Switzerland to escape the Holocaust. At 17, she went to Israel, where she fought for Israel’s independence as a member of the Haganah and was severely wounded in a bomb blast. She moved to Paris, where she studied at the Sorbonne and taught kindergarten, and then went to the U.S. in 1956 where she received a master’s in sociology from the New School of Social Research. In 1970, she received...
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In 1980, pediatrician-hematologist Dr Yvette Bonny performed the first bone marrow transplant in Quebec in a child. She went on to perform approximately 200 during her career, giving hope to sick children and their families.Haitian by birth, Yvette Bonny earned her medical degree at the Faculty of Medicine of Haiti. After arriving in Canada in 1962, she dedicated most of her career to research and to treating children suffering from leukemia, cancer, and sickle cell anemia.  When Yvette Bo...
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