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John Knubley

Founder, InnovAction Advisory Services

John Knubley is a consultant, Corporate Director, and former Deputy Minister in the Government of Canada. He is also a senior advisor to FGS Longview Communications and Boston Consulting Group. In 2020, John founded InnovAction Advisory Services. InnovAction provides strategic counsel to organizations across a variety of activities relating to innovation, R&D, sustainability, foreign investment, merger review and regulatory matters.

He serves as a Director on the Ontario Energy Board, the Asia-Pacific Foundation, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, Genome Atlantic, and the Centre for Canadian Innovation Policy. He is a senior fellow of the Brookfield and C.D. Howe Institutes. John holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, a Master of Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He also received a post-graduate diploma in Nice, France, from the Institut Européen des Hautes Études Internationales.

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