CASRAI is governed by Board of Directors elected by the membership. Current board members are:
- Dr. 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
- Ms. Sandra Crocker, Assistant Vice-Principal (Research Operations) at McGill
- Mr. Chuck Humphrey, Head of the Data Library at the University of Alberta
- Dr. Joesph Hubert, Vice President Research at University of Montreal
- Dr. Mark Bisby, Science and Technology Consultant
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.
Ms. Sandra Crocker
Sandra is Assistant Vice-Principal (Research Operations) at McGill. She has had a distinguished career in research administration. Prior to her work at McGill she served as Associate Vice-Principal (Research) in the Office of the Vice-Principal Research at Queen's University and as Queen's University's Director of the Office of Research Services.
She is finishing a two year term as President of the Canadian Association of University Research Administrators (CAURA). Ms. Crocker is a member of the International Society for Research Administration, and has served on the editorial review board of The Journal of Research Administration, and on the boards of the Biocap Canada Charitable Foundation Inc., Insect Biotec Canada Inc., the Kingston Technology Council and the Ontario Centre for Communications and Information Technology.
Mr. Chuck Humphrey
Chuck is the Head of the Data Library at the University of Alberta and responsible for the implementation and management of a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC) at the University of Alberta. He has worked on several regional, national and international initiatives to increase access to data for teaching and research. He has participated in the development of an international preservation metadata standard for microdata, known as DDI, and is currently overseeing a CFI-funded software project within the Canadian Research Data Centre Network to produce tools supporting the life cycle management of research data.
Chuck is a member of the Research Data Strategy Working Group organized by CISTI to advance a national agenda on data stewardship in Canada and is the Lead for the Infrastructure and Services Task Group. In 2000, Mr. Humphrey received the Canadian Association of Research Libraries Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship recognizing his "expert knowledge of data formats, data access and preservation".
Dr. Joseph Hubert
Joseph is Vice President Research at University of Montreal, one of Canada's largest universities. He is an internationally recognized chemist and, as Department Chair, Dean and now VPR, has long experience as an academic administrator and leader. He has worked extensively with industry and the federal funding agencies and is known for his promotion and leadership in forming interdisciplinary teams and inter-institutional initiatives.
Dr. Mark Bisby
Mark Bisby was a teacher and researcher in physiology for 25 years before joining the Medical Research Council of Canada, predecessor of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, in 1997. He was heavily involved in the transition between the two organizations that took place in 2000. He became V-P Research of CIHR, working with the Directors of CIHR's 13 Institutes to put in place the programs, processes and policies of the new organization, including ResearchNet and the CommonCV. He retired from CIHR in 2006 and is now is a consultant in science and technology, based in Ottawa.