Appointee Biographies

CHRISTIAN LEUPRECHT

Christian Leuprecht (PH.D, Queen’s) is class of 1965 Professor in Leadership, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College and Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. He is cross-appointed, Department of Political Studies and the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University and Adjunct Research Professor, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University as well as the Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University. A recipient of RMC’s Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research and an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, he is also Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the MacDonald Laurier Institute.

ROBERT LUKE

Robert Luke, PhD, is Chief Executive Officer of eCampusOntario, which provides support to Ontario’s Indigenous Institutes, universities and colleges promoting digital by design education, collaboration, and innovation, helping inform and shape Ontario’s postsecondary education system in consultation with sector stakeholders. Dr Luke has over 25 years of experience in the Canadian and Ontario College and University systems, including teaching, research, and the development of academic programs, innovation, and business incubation initiatives. Prior to his role at eCampusOntario, Dr Luke spent 10 years in postsecondary executive administration as Vice-President, Research & Innovation at OCAD University and as Vice-President, Research & Innovation at George Brown College. His expertise is in human-centered knowledge media design, working at the intersections of education and information science to produce useful and useable technology to support education, health, and innovation systems.

ANDREW KIRSCH

Andrew Kirsch (CPP and HTRA) is the founder of Kirsch Group (KG) a boutique Risk Consulting Firm serving governments, and corporate clients. Andrew leads a multidisciplinary team of consultants identify risk and implementing strategies to optimize security programs and mitigate risk. Prior to KG he served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for just under a decade. He held roles as a policy analyst and a field investigator, ultimately leading the special operations security team running covert warranted operations. He was appointed to the Ontario Expert Panel on Cyber Security in 2020, advising the government on strengthening cyber security practices in the broader public sector. He is a public speaker on issues of national and cyber security.

ANNE SNOWDON

Anne Snowdon, R.N., Ph.D. (UWindsor) is a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Odette School of Business and holds Adjunct appointments as Faculty at the Department of Computer Science at UWindsor, School of Nursing at Dalhousie University, and the University of Southern Denmark. Snowdon is leading a national Community of Practice, (CoP) funded by SSHRC, to advance supply chain resilience across Canada which has a mandate to engage partners in co-design of solutions to advance and strengthen supply chain resilience across Canadian health systems. Snowdon has a substantial program of research on digital health, health innovation, and health supply chain, and has published more than 150 research articles, papers and cases, has received over $24 million in research funding, holds patents and has most recently commercialized a maturity model designed to support health systems to advance supply chain maturity worldwide.