Dan is a Senior Fellow in the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is also Researcher in Residence at Actua and Research Advisor at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship.

Dan was at The Conference Board of Canada from 2008 to 2017. He was Associate Director of Public Policy and played key roles in the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy group, Centre for Business Innovation, and Centre for Skills and Post-Secondary Education. Previously, he was Senior Analyst at the Council of Canadian Academies—the Government of Canada’s arms-length science assessment organization—where he provided research support for expert panels examining the health and environmental effects of nanomaterials, influenza transmission and protective devices, and business education.

Dan has taught politics and philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Queen’s University, the University of Toronto at Mississauga, and Huron University College (Western University) where he won the Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2006. In 2006-07, Dan was Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the Democracy and Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy at Queen’s University.

Dan holds degrees in political science from the University of Toronto (B.A.), Western University (M.A.), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.).