Martha Hall Findlay Executive Fellow

Martha Hall Findlay Executive Fellow Martha Hall Findlay is an Executive Fellow and Director of the Digital Economy Program at The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary. She also serves as Chair of the Advisory Council of the Positive Energy Project, University of Ottawa, and as a member of the Advisory Council of the New York Global Leaders Dialogue. Politics: She was elected twice as a Member of Parliament, and served in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet as Critic for International Trade; Associate Finance; Transport, Infrastructure and Communities; and Public Works and Government Services. She was a member of the House of Commons Standing Committees for Finance; International Trade; Transport; and Government Operations. Martha was a Candidate for the Leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2006 and 2013. Law and Business: Ms. Hall Findlay recently served as the Chief Legal Officer of EnStream, a Rogers/Bell/TELUS mobile payments joint venture. As a lawyer, senior executive and successful entrepreneur, she has over 25 years of domestic and international experience with major multi- nationals as well as start-ups, primarily in telecommunications and technology. Prior to entering politics, Ms. Hall Findlay was Counsel for Bell Mobility, General Counsel and then General Manager of Mobility Canada, and Chief Legal and Regulatory Advisor to Český Mobil a.s. (a major cellular company in the Czech Republic). Community: Ms. Hall Findlay serves or has served as a board director and executive for several policy, environmental, community and cultural organizations, including currently as Vice Chair of Alpine Canada Alpin, and as member of the Advisory Council for the Canadian Centre for Responsibility to Protect (CCR2P) at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs; and in the past with, among others, the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs, CKUA Radio and the Georgian Bay Association. .

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