Martha Crago

Professor Crago is a policy advisor to ITIF's Canada Centre for Innovation and Competitiveness. She is McGill University’s Vice-President (Research and Innovation). Prior to returning to McGill, she was the Vice-President (Research) and Professor in Human Communications Disorders at Dalhousie University. Her previous university administrative positions include Vice-President of International and Inter-Governmental Relations at the Université de Montreal as well as the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and Associate Provost (Academic Programs), at McGill University.

Professor Crago played a significant leadership role in the advancement of university education as the former Chair of the Research Committee of the U15 group of Canada’s research-intensive universities. In 2018, she became Chair of the Governing Council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Previously, she was President of the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies, a member of the American Association of Universities Deans of Graduate Studies’ group, the Universitas 21’s Research Directors and Graduate Studies Group and on the Board of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States.

In 2016, she was selected by the Minister of Science of Canada to be a member of an Advisory Panel on the Funding of Fundamental Research. That same year, she was an expert advisor for the National Research Council of Canada’s strategic planning exercise. In 2014, the Premier of Nova Scotia invited her to serve on the One Nova Scotia Coalition, the purpose of which was to propose an economic action plan for the province.