Daniel Munro Email & Phone Number

Toronto/Ottawa

Shift Insights offers insights on the social, economic and technological opportunities and challenges facing Canada in the digital age. www.shiftinsights.ca

Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

As Director, Research and Innovation at Actua - Canada's leading STEM outreach organization - I conduct research with a view to helping Canada better understand the STEM skills challenges and opportunities we face and the programs, policies and strategies needed to address gaps. I also conduct evaluations of Actua’s programs to generate insights to make STEM outreach more engaging, effective and inclusive.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

As Research Fellow at Brookfield, I helped to conceptualize and execute research projects focused on innovation, broadly understood, and the economic and social implications of innovation, automation and the changing nature of work.

Ottawa, Canada Area

As Associate Director, Public Policy at The Conference Board of Canada, I worked with a team conducting research across a broad range of public policy topics, including science, technology and innovation; cities; health; social and community well-being; strategic foresight; and other areas. Prior to joining the Public Policy group, I worked on a range of skills, education and innovation projects for the Conference Board's Centre for Skills and Post-Secondary Education, Centre for Business… Show more As Associate Director, Public Policy at The Conference Board of Canada, I worked with a team conducting research across a broad range of public policy topics, including science, technology and innovation; cities; health; social and community well-being; strategic foresight; and other areas. Prior to joining the Public Policy group, I worked on a range of skills, education and innovation projects for the Conference Board's Centre for Skills and Post-Secondary Education, Centre for Business Innovation, and Industry & Business Strategy group. I started at the Board as a Senior Research Associate and earned two promotions--first to Principal Research Associate and then to Associate Director. My work helped to inform federal and provincial government policy, spending and long-term thinking in innovation, higher education, and skills training. Insights and tools from my research have been used by Canadian industries and individual companies to improve planning and performance. Show less

Each fall I taught a course in ethics and moral reasoning to a group of 15 to 20 graduate students interested in careers in public and international affairs. In addition to teaching fundamentals of logic and critical thinking in a "Logic Boot Camp" I designed specifically for the class, I led students in discussions about ethical dimensions of a range of public policy issues including the limits of free speech, economic and social equality, multiculturalism, liberty and security, immigration… Show more Each fall I taught a course in ethics and moral reasoning to a group of 15 to 20 graduate students interested in careers in public and international affairs. In addition to teaching fundamentals of logic and critical thinking in a "Logic Boot Camp" I designed specifically for the class, I led students in discussions about ethical dimensions of a range of public policy issues including the limits of free speech, economic and social equality, multiculturalism, liberty and security, immigration, and global justice. Show less

As Senior Analyst with the Council of Canadian Academies - the Government of Canada's arms-length science assessment organization - I worked with leaders in business, government and academia to assess the science relevant to various public policy issues. My research focused on nanotechnology risk and regulation, influenza transmission risk and prevention, and identifying research priorities for Canada's business, management and finance schools and programs. My work informed government policy in… Show more As Senior Analyst with the Council of Canadian Academies - the Government of Canada's arms-length science assessment organization - I worked with leaders in business, government and academia to assess the science relevant to various public policy issues. My research focused on nanotechnology risk and regulation, influenza transmission risk and prevention, and identifying research priorities for Canada's business, management and finance schools and programs. My work informed government policy in all three areas. Show less

In 2006-07 I was an Assistant Professor and the Democracy and Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University - funded in part by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Under the guidance of Professor Will Kymlicka, I produced a series of papers that examine how various legal and political institutions and policies might facilitate the emergence of deliberative democratic citizenship, especially among recent immigrants to multicultural democracies.… Show more In 2006-07 I was an Assistant Professor and the Democracy and Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University - funded in part by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Under the guidance of Professor Will Kymlicka, I produced a series of papers that examine how various legal and political institutions and policies might facilitate the emergence of deliberative democratic citizenship, especially among recent immigrants to multicultural democracies. Papers from this research project have been published in the Journal of International Migration and Integration, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Theory, and Politics and Ethics Review. In addition to research activities, I taught a third-year undergraduate course in Contemporary Political Philosophy and a joint graduate/upper-undergraduate course on Law, Democracy, and Citizenship. Show less

Ph.D., Political Science

M.A., Political Science

B.A., Politics, Philosophy