As the Chief Administrative Officer of the Region of Peel, David was responsible for the overall management of the Regional Corporation providing essential public services to more than 1.4 million residents and 156,000 businesses in the Cities of Brampton, Mississauga, and the Town of Caledon.  He retired from service in  July, 2019.

Prior to being appointed as CAO in October 2005, David held management positions with the Region of Peel, Government of Ontario and the Region of Halton.

David has received the Rotary International Centennial Award for Professional Excellence. His work at Peel has been recognized with the IPAC Public Sector Leadership Award (Gold) and the Institute for Citizen-Centred Service (ICCS) 2012 Heintzman Leadership Award for the promotion of citizen-centred service within the Canadian public sector. Peel has received Excellence Canada's Award of Excellence and Canada Order of Excellence, being the first Canadian Municipality to receive those honours.

David has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a Master's degree in Public Administration from Queen's University, and has been awarded an Executive Certificate in Public Sector Leadership from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. David is a Distinguished Fellow with the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.

Duncan Sinclair is an internationally recognized leader in health care reform. He has been a trusted advisor and counsellor to students, faculty, alumni, principals, premiers and prime ministers, all of whom hold him in the highest of esteem. The first non-MD to be Dean of Medicine in Canada, Dr. Sinclair led the creation of North America’s first alternative funding program for academic medicine, viewed as a gold standard in Canada for academic physician compensation.

He was born in Rochester, New York and received a DVM from the Ontario Veterinary College, an MSc from the University of Toronto and a PhD in physiology from Queen's University. From 1963 to 1965, he pursued post-doctoral medical research at St John's College, Cambridge. From 1974 to 1983, Sinclair was dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Queen's. He later served as vice-principal of Institutional Relations, vice-principal of services, vice-principal of Health Sciences and dean of the Faculty of Medicine.  Sinclair was the first non-medical doctor to be chosen as head of a faculty of medicine in Canada.  He retired from Queen's in 1996 but continues to be a guest lecturer at the University. In 1997, Queen's established the Dr. Duncan G. Sinclair Lectureship in Health Services and Policy Research.

In 1989, he was named an honorary fellow in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2015 and was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2020.

Sinclair was chair of the Ontario Health Services Restructuring Commission and founding chair of Canada Health Infoway. He also served on the steering committee for the review by the Ontario Ministry of Health of the Public Hospitals Act.

Victor Rabinovitch is an Adjunct Professor and Fellow of the School of Policy Studies at Queens University. He is a frequent writer and speaker on issues of Canadian culture and identity. His current areas of interest are in cultural expression, community identity, history and memory, and public policy analysis. He is also the Board Chair of Opera Lyra, the professional opera company of Ottawa-Gatineau.

Dr. Rabinovitch is the President Emeritus of the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, responsible for Canada’s largest museum (the Canadian Museum of Civilization – now the Museum of History) and the national museum of military history (the Canadian War Museum). During his eleven years as head of these national institutions, they dramatically expanded their range of exhibitions, audiences and artefact collections. The new War Museum was constructed, while extensive renewals also took place at the Museum of Civilization.

Before joining the national museums, Dr. Rabinovitch had served as an Assistant Deputy Minister in various federal government departments. His areas of responsibility included: operations of the Old Age Security and Canada Pension Plan; international relations, enforcement and economic development at Fisheries and Oceans; and cultural policies and programs at the Department of Canadian Heritage (including film, broadcasting, publishing, copyright and museums). He had also been the first Executive Director of Workplace Safety and Health in the Province of Manitoba and, for four years, was the National Secretary for Health and Safety at the Canadian Labour Congress.

Dr. Rabinovitch was named CEO of the Year in the para-public sector by the Regroupement des gens d’affaires de la Capitale nationale in 2005. He was given the Award of Merit from the Association for Canadian Studies in October 2006 for his “outstanding contribution to the dissemination of knowledge of Canada’s history”, and he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for service in promoting Canadian history.

While his professional career has focused on government operations and policy-making, Dr. Rabinovitch writes and lectures internationally on issues of culture, history and policy. Some recent titles include: “Manageable Divide: A History of Language Politics in Canada and Quebec” in Canada’s History (January 2014); and “Making Amends: How Reforming Museum Practices is helping Revive Aboriginal Spirituality”, in the Literary Review of Canada (2015, No.5).

During his extensive career in the Ontario Public Service, David Lindsay served as Deputy Minister in half a dozen portfolios including Energy and Infrastructure, Northern Development, Mines and Forestry, Natural Resources, and Tourism and Culture. He also served as the Principal Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Premier of Ontario from 1995 to 1997 and was President and CEO of the Ontario Jobs and Investment Board from 1997 to 1999.

As the founding President of the Ontario SuperBuild Corporation, Mr. Lindsay oversaw provincial government infrastructure planning from 1999 to 2003. He has also served as President and CEO of the Council of Ontario Universities and President and CEO of Colleges Ontario.  

Over the past 25 years, Mr. Lindsay has served as a director on the boards of many government agencies, cultural and not-for-profit organizations, and private businesses including the Ontario Innovation Trust, Ontario Realty Corporation, the Public Policy Forum, and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow of the Queen's University School of Policy Studies, Vice Chair of Ontario Parks Board, and sits on the Ontario Greenbelt Foundation Board.

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Caroline Davis specializes in governance and financial management in the public sector and not-for-profit organizations. She is a Fellow of CPA Ontario, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London before coming to Canada. She has a BSc with honours in chemistry from the University of Wales. 

Caroline served for seven years as Vice-Principal (Finance and Administration) at Queen’s University. Before that, she worked in the Government of Canada, her last position being Assistant Deputy Minister, Resolution and Individual Affairs at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). She was also INAC’s chief financial officer for five years, was the ADM responsible for land and trust services, and was involved in negotiating comprehensive land claims in the north and the west of Canada. 

Since moving to Kingston, Caroline has volunteered with the United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington, and she chaired its board of directors in 2016-17. She is also on the board of United Way Centraide Canada, and for 2017-18 was Vice-Chair. 

In 2017, the Government of Canada appointed Caroline as a director of the First Nations Financial Management Board, an indigenous-run organization that provides services to First Nations seeking to strengthen their fiscal stewardship and accountability regimes.  Her appointment was renewed in March 2019.

Having retired after 35 years with the Ontario and Saskatchewan public services, Kevin Costante joined the School of Policy Studies in November 2014, as an Adjunct Professor. Prior to joining the School of Policy Studies, Kevin had served for two years as Deputy Minister of Government Services, Associate Secretary of the Cabinet, Secretary of Management Board and Chair of the Public Service Commission in the Ontario Public Service. From 2009 to 2012, Kevin was Ontario's Deputy Minister of Education.

First appointed a Deputy Minister in 1999, Kevin also served in that role in the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Cabinet Office (Policy), the Ministry of Community and Social Services and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Prior to joining the Ontario Public Service in 1988, Kevin worked 9 years in the Saskatchewan Public Service in the Department of Education, the Department of Advanced Education and the Department of Finance (Treasury Board).

Kevin attended Queen's University and has a BA (Hons) and an Master's of Public Administration (1979).

Kevin lives in Toronto and is also on the Board of Directors of several non-for-profit organizations.

Helen graduated from Queen’s with a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Mathematics, then worked for a year as a chemist at Procter & Gamble in Hamilton. With a yearning to see a wider world she signed up with CUSO for a two-year stint teaching in a girls’ boarding school in northern Tanzania. She then completed an M.Sc. at the London School of Economics in Econometrics. Upon her return to Kingston with two young children she was elected as a municipal councillor in 1980. She served as Kingston’s first woman mayor from 1988 to 1993, then began a three-year term as Chair of the Ontario Municipal Board. In the early ‘90s Helen served as President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario as well as a member of the Premier’s Council on Health Strategy and the Ontario Round Table on Environment and Economy. From 2001 to 2006 she was a member of the Advisory Council of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. Since 2006 Helen has been a manager within the Ministry of Community and Social Services, mostly recently with program delivery for adult developmental services until her retirement at the end of 2014. She has subsequently indulged in a great deal of travel both in North America and abroad and is also pursuing a long-held goal of completing Route 66 in stages. Her current volunteer enthusiasms are the Queen’s School of Policy Studies where she is a Distinguished Fellow and Oasis Senior Supportive Living where she recently became president. 

After nearly 31 years as public servant and a decade at the Deputy Minister level, Malcolm Brown retired from the the federal Public Service on April 24th, 2019.  He is currently a Senior Strategic Advisor with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He is also sits on the Board of the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington, DC based think tank. 

Prior to his retirement he served as the Deputy Minister of Public Safety between 2016 and 2019.  In this role he led major policy and legislative initiatives in the areas of national security, cyber security, emergency management and corrections reform and ensured coordinated actions across the Public Safety Portfolio, which includes the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canada Border Services Agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Correctional Service of Canada and the Parole Board of Canada.

Malcolm Brown served as Special Advisor to the Clerk of the Privy Council on the Syrian Refugee Initiative between 2015 and 2016 supporting the selection, screening, arrival and settlement of more than 25,000 Syrian refugees.

Malcolm Brown was also the Deputy Minister of International Development from 2014 to 2015.  In this role he oversaw Canada’s international development agenda, and served as Canada’s Alternate Governor for the World Bank.

He was also appointed Executive Vice President of the Canada Border Services Agency in 2011 and Associate Deputy Minister of Natural Resources in 2009.

Malcolm Brown began his federal public service career in the Federal Provincial Relations Office in 1990.  He then worked at Health Canada and later at the Privy Council Office where, among other senior positions, he served as Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for the Reference Group of Ministers on Aboriginal Policy.  Between 2002 and 2009, he occupied assistant deputy minister-level positions with Human Resources Development Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), culminating with the position of Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy and Research, HRSDC. 

He also worked in the Ontario government in the Ministries of Housing and Intergovernmental Affairs.

Malcolm Brown holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies from Queen's University and a Master of Arts in Political Science from York University.

Daniel (Dan) Brant is a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and resides on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory with his wife Roberta Greyeyes. He grew up on the reserve and attended the Indian day school on the reserve and attended high school in Belleville Ontario. 

Currently, Dan is proprietor of Daniel J. Brant & Associates (Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario) most recently he was an adjunct assistant professor at Queens University for the fall semester 2020 and summer 2021; he has also served as the Chief Administrative Officer, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, Ontario; CEO of Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation (Ohsweken, Ontario); and previously as a sessional Professor at Algonquin College (Ottawa) and Confederation College (Thunder Bay).

Previously, Dan worked as a Special/Executive Assistant and Senior Policy Advisor to four federal  Minsters and two Deputy Ministers for Indian Affairs, Government of Canada, and in various executive positions, CEO of the Assembly of First Nations (Ontario), CEO of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporation Association (Ottawa), Director of Aboriginal Affairs – Environment Canada (Quebec) and Executive Director of the National Indian Brotherhood (Ottawa).

Dan completed a PhD at Nipissing University focussing on the impact of culture on First Nations leadership. He previously completed a Masters Degree in Public Administration, Queens University, a Masters Degree in Applied Science, (Civil Engineering) University of Waterloo and a Bachelor Degree in Architectural Technology, Ryerson University.

Among Dan’s many leadership and management roles with three different national Indigenous organizations, he was heavily involved in the national expansion of services and establishing many important corporate partnerships.     

As a professional, Dan is a member with the Aboriginal Finance Officers Association (AFOA Certified Aboriginal Financial Manager); Board member with AFAO Canada and Chair of the Education Committee; Board Chair of ‘Outside Looking In’ a non profit supporting First Nations youth; and a member of the Departmental Audit Committee of two federal departments namely Employment and Social Development Canada and Infrastructure Canada. He is also on the Board of Governors of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and a national representative on the Indigenous Advisory Council for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Previous Board membership includes, Banff School of Management – Advisory Board; Native Economic Development Board (Federal Order in Council Appointment); Gignul Housing Corporation; Vice-Chair, Eastern Ontario Economic Development Board (Provincial Order in Council appointment); and Chair, First Nations Technical Institute.  

As a visionary, Dan has a gift for seeing the ‘art of the possible’,  a creative mind in designing new approaches to solve problems ; and a strong work ethic, and thanks his parents for teaching his family that ethics matter.