Dr. Saner is the Executive Director of the Regulatory Governance Initiative at Carleton University, Ottawa and Principal of Saner Consulting. He has more than 15 years of experience carrying out assessments and analytical work in the natural sciences and humanities.

For the last decade, his primary interest has been the intersection of governance, ethics and science. Prior to his current assignment he was the Executive Vice President and Director of Assessments at the Council of Canadian Academies and a Director at the Institute On Governance (an Ottawa-based think tank).

He is currently an Adjunct Research Professor at the Departments of Philosophy and Biology at Carleton University and holds a Ph.D in ecology (University of Basel, Switzerland, 1991) and an MA in ethics (Carleton University, Canada, 1999).