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St. John's, NL, CA

St. John's, Newfoundland

As ADM for Economics, Fiscal and Statistics, this position is responsible for 5 divisions: Tax Administration, Tax Policy, Fiscal Policy, Economics and Statistics, including the Newfoundland and Labrador Statistics Agency. This also includes the Marble Mountain Development Corporation (member of the Board of Directors), Atlantic Lottery Corporation (member.

St. John's, Newfoundland And Labrador

As ADM for Royalties and Benefits, responsibilities included the negotiation, development, and monitoring of offshore petroleum and mining project agreements and legislation; the auditing of project costs and revenues to verify the accuracy of offshore oil royalties paid to the province, and; policy research, industry analysis and strategic advice related.

St. John's, NL, Canada

• This position was responsible for strategy, program development and delivery of an annual R&D budget of $15-20 million and supervision of a group with expertise in business development, commercial and non-commercial.
• the development of commercial, non-commercial and collaborative R&D programs, call for proposals and strategic initiatives that have leveraged over $350 million from industry, the Government of Canada and other sources.
• negotiated a $5 m RDC-Statoil Arctic R&D Step-Up Initiative;
• responsible for positioning RDC support for large projects (e.g., $12 million C-CORE LookNorth Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research, $14.3 million Hibernia Enhanced Oil Recovery Laboratory, $16.3.
• collaborative work with other government and industry groups to provide support, strategic advice and identify opportunities in priority areas such as clean tech and wind energy innovation; and
• R&D facility opportunity identification activities, including feasibility, site selection and identification of potential collaborators and funding partners.

Responsible for providing senior management, other federal departments, Ministers and external stakeholders with strategic policy and program advice specific to major projects, including: the Voisey's Bay nickel-copper-cobalt mine and mineral processing facility, the Lower Churchill River hydroelectric development, and offshore oil and gas. This involved.

This position was responsible for policy development and program delivery in support of regional economic development in the areas of international trade, investment and the establishment of business networks. Specific responsibilities included: program development, project management and policy research; project evaluation, implementation and monitoring.

This position was responsible for providing advice to the Board of Directors and policy recommendations to the Premier and Provincial Cabinet of the Government of NL on economic development issues, policies and programs. Areas of responsibility included: attending quarterly Board of Directors meetings as an economic advisor; comprehensive economic research.

St. John's, NL Canada

This position was responsible for detailed research and analysis of corporate policy and planning issues relevant to an electric utility's operating environment, including: the development of NLH's long-term electrical demand forecast; survey design, analysis and interpretation; applied econometric modeling and demand/price forecasting; review and.

St. John's, NL Canada

This position involved economic analysis of Newfoundland's offshore petroleum resources, including the initial development of a methodology for cost-benefit analysis of resource development projects using financial and economic models, which was applied to the Hibernia project prior to a development decision; preparation of a cost-benefit analysis of the.

Bachelor Of Arts (Honours), Economics

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Applied Econometrics

Honours

Master'S Degree, Economics