Committees

Cyber Security Committee

Name Position

Tony Orlando Chair

Dr. Vincent Chiew Director

Mehrdad Safaei Member

Daksha Bhasker Member

Pierre Legault Member

Youry Khmelevsky Member

Mehrdad Safaei
Policy Analyst | Digital Governance and Emerging Technologies

Engineer and policy analyst by training and by practice. Deep love for technology and the rules that shape it. Currently, a PhD candidate focused on designing/engineering the next generation of social media and figuring out how humans should connect in a world that keeps shifting. I am catching up on Indigenous studies, anthropology, sociology, art, psychology, education, biology, Arctic and subarctic and geopolitics. I want a full picture of how people think, create, and belong.

I have worked across government, including Indigenous communities across Canada, academia, and industry (climate change and water policy, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, regulation and legislation, education, infrastructure, investment, policy analysis, digital governance and public sector innovation).