The CSA Public Policy Centre appoints Fellows who are experts in their field to provide strategic support and guidance on the Centre’s policy research agenda and activities. Fellows help the Centre fulfill its mandate of providing thoughtful analysis and promoting collaborative, evidence- based solutions to Canada’s most pressing policy challenges.

2025 – 2027 Fellows

Anne White

Anne White is a public policy expert and strategist with over 15 years of experience in designing and implementing results-driven government reforms across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She created The Good Governance Project in 2024, a research and dialogue initiative about public governance capacity in Canada. With support from the CSA Group, she is examining how governments, industry, and civil society work together to achieve outcomes in different countries with the aim to determine how best to improve societal outcomes and public governance capacity in Canada. From 2016-2024, Anne held senior positions in the federal government of Canada, including as Director of Special Projects, leading cross-government policy initiatives, and as the senior lead on stock takes and results initiatives for the Prime Minister’s top priorities at the Privy Council Office. She also led the development and scale-up of the Canada Revenue Agency’s first Innovation Lab, managing a $10M Innovation Fund focused on improving service delivery for clients. Prior to this, she was a Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab, where she worked with Governor Snyder’s Office in Michigan to improve government services through performance-based contracting and innovative public-private-philanthropic partnerships. This included developing and executing performance-based contracts and blended finance projects to reduce infant mortality. She also advised on state and city-level initiatives related to child welfare services, juvenile justice, housing, and procurement reform for public services more broadly throughout the mid-West and South Carolina. In her early career, she was a Senior Researcher at the LSE Public Policy Group where she led initiatives on public sector productivity for the UK National Audit Office, as well as analysis on the cost-benefits of machinery of government changes in Whitehall for the UK Institute for Government. She served as Young Professional Director and member of the Executive Committee of the Board at the Toronto Board of Trade. Anne holds an MPA from the London School of Economics and Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, and an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business. Her executive education focus has been on managing disruptive change and policy frameworks for industrial innovation through the MIT Sloan School of Management and Stanford University’s Energy Innovation Program. Anne is fluently bilingual in English and French.

Danielle Goldfarb

Danielle Goldfarb is an expert on global trade, real-time data, economics, and public policy. She has developed leading-edge research programs and written more than 100 articles and peer-reviewed papers for think tanks and other organizations. She is a Centre for International Governance Innovation senior fellow, a Wilson Center Canada Institute global fellow, an Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada distinguished fellow, and a Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy lecturer and senior fellow. Danielle’s TEDx talk, “The Smartest Way to Predict the Future”, is on using new technologies to improve data coverage and prediction. She was one of the writers of the first International AI Safety Report and was a strategic advisor on public policy to Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. She was previously VP and research director at real-time data company RIWI, and led research programs on digital and Canada-US trade at the C.D. Howe Institute and the Conference Board of Canada. Danielle hosts the “New Tools of the Economists’ Trade” series for the Canadian Association of Business Economics and the Toronto Association for Business and Economics. She holds a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Commerce in Honours Economics from McGill University.

2024 – 2026 Fellows

Sherri Torjman

Currently a social policy consultant, from 1992 to 2017 Sherri Torjman was Vice President of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, one of Canada’s leading social policy think tanks. In this role, she helped to propose and design the Canada Child Benefit and other income security and tax measures. From 2018 to 2022, Sherri served as Vice-Chair of the Disability Advisory Committee reporting to the Minister of National Revenue. She Co-Chaired the Technical Advisory Committee on Tax Measures for Persons with Disabilities in 2004 to 2005, reporting to the Minister of Finance and Minister of National Revenue. In 1987, Sherri wrote Welfare in Canada, developing the methodology still used today by Maytree for calculating social assistance incomes across Canada. Sherri worked for the House of Commons Committee on the Disabled in 1981 and wrote four books on disability policy for the Roeher Institute. She was a founding partner, in association with Tamarack and the McConnell Foundation, of the Vibrant Communities initiative that involved 14 communities in a learning partnership focused on local solutions to reduce poverty. Vibrant Communities evolved into the Cities Reducing Poverty network with more than 70 initiatives representing 330 municipalities. She is a Board member of Prosper Canada, an organization that works to expand economic opportunity for people living in poverty. In recognition of her policy work, Sherri was awarded the 2017 Senate 150 Anniversary Medal, 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2011 Champion of Human Services Award from the Ontario Municipal Social Services Association and 2010 Top 25 Canadians Award from the Canadian Association of Retired Persons.

Will Falk

Will Falk has spent 25 years as a strategist and advisor in New York and Toronto advising top academic centres, governments, and innovative companies in health care. Since retiring from the PwC partnership in 2017, Will has had several roles. He is an Executive in Residence at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where he has taught since 2008. He is a Senior Fellow at the CD Howe Institute and an Innovation Fellow at Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care. Will is a Venture partner with Amplify Capital. He invests in and has worked with several startups focused on health care. Will has had several formal and informal advisory roles in public service including First Ministers’ meetings, ministerial reviews, expert panels, national reports and bargaining teams. He is an active philanthropist, and his not-for-profit boards include West Neighbourhood House, AMS Foundation, Children’s Aid Foundation, William Osler Health System and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences. His corporate Boards include Verto, Alayacare, FirstHx, Home Capital, Medseek, and StrataHealth. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto (Trinity College) and his M.P.P.M. from Yale University’s School of Management where he was later a Visiting Research Fellow.