David served as National Coordinator of the Innovation Systems Research Network from 1999 to 2011 and was lead investigator on two Major Collaborative Research Initiatives, the first on the Role of Local and Regional Clusters in Canada and the second on Innovation and Creativity in City Regions. He is currently the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the U. of T.'s Munk School of Global Affairs. He also served as a member of the Ontario Government's Technical Panel on Business Support Programs in 2013-14. Previously, he was a research associate in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Program on Law and the Determinants of Social Ordering and has acted as an adviser to the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, the Ontario Premier’s Council, Industry Canada, the National Research Council, the LEED Program of the OECD, the Ontario Panel on the Role of Government, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation and DG Regio of the European Commission. He was the CIBC Scholar-in-Residence for the Conference Board of Canada in 2008-2009 and published a book for the Conference Board, entitled 21st Century Cities in Canada: The Geography of Innovation. He is the editor or co-editor of nine additional books and numerous scholarly articles.Specialties: project organization and management, research, policy analysis, teaching, writing,