Marc Saner
Director, Institute for Science, Society, and Policy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa.
Last Contribution:
How Not to Catch H1N1
Contributor Biography
Dr. Marc Saner is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Science, Society, and Policy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa.
Prior to this appointment, he served as executive director of the Regulatory Governance Initiative in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, and director of assessments and executive vice-president of the Council of Canadian Academies. Previously, Dr. Saner was a director at the Institute On Governance where he built the Ethics and Risk Management Sector and co-managed the Technology and Governance Program.
For the last decade, his primary interest has been multi-disciplinary work at the intersection of science, ethics, and governance. He holds a PhD in applied ecology from the University of Basel, Switzerland (1991) as well as an MA in applied ethics from Carleton University (1999).
Dr. Saner publishes in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of technology ethics, bioethics, risk management, biotechnology, and ecology, and has been invited to speak at seminars, workshops, and international conferences around the world. He was also appointed adjunct research professor in philosophy and in biology at Carleton University.
