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.

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.