President: Jessica Davis
Vice-President: Akshay Singh
Director of Finance: Nancy Clark
Director of Outreach: Nyiri DuCharme
Director of Communications: Shaan Mehdi
Board Members: Micah Clark, Nancy Clark, Greg Fyffe, Robert Gordon, Paul Jarrett, Thomas Juneau, Arne Kislenko, Leah West, Reem Zaia
Micah Clark
Micah Clark is Managing Director of Decision Space, a design firm specializing in OSINT technology and methodology development. He is also a graduate lecturer in Intelligence, Technology and War at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton University. Micah’s career in professional OSINT spans more than a decade, with a focus on integrating OSINT into FVEY intelligence operations and designing, evaluating, and fielding OSINT tools and methods for defense and intelligence agencies. He has provided leadership to companies in Canada, the US, UK and Europe, and is a board member of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies.
Nancy Clark
Robert Crawhall
Robert is Executive Director of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and President of Innoxec Innovation. He has over 35 years of experience working with leading researchers in the public and private sectors in aerospace, nanotechnology, telecommunications, eCommerce, energy and robotics. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, as well as a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, both from McGill University.
Jessica Davis
Jessica Davis is President and Principal Consultant at Insight Threat Intelligence, a security-focused consulting company. Jessica previously spent 17 years in the Canadian security and intelligence community, most recently at CSIS and FINTRAC.
Nyiri DuCharme
Nyiri has volunteered for CASIS since the 2016 Annual Symposium. She holds a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, and an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in Political Science and European Studies. Nyiri has been a federal public servant since 2017 in various policy-centered roles, most recently at the Privy Council Office. She was a 2022 delegate to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings with the Young Diplomats of Canada.
Greg Fyffe
Greg was President of CASIS from 2012-2020. He is retired from the Public Service of Canada where he served as head of the Intelligence Assessment Branch from 2000 to 2008. His second career has been as a teacher/facilitator of professional courses covering intelligence, leadership, strategy and public policy at the Telfer Centre for Executive Leadership, the University of Ottawa Centre on Public Management and Policy (Odell House), and the Canada School of the Public Service.
Robert Gordon
Bob is the Strategic Advisor of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (CCTX). He had a unique career in a number of Canada’s security, intelligence and law enforcement organizations: Public Safety Canada, Communications Security Establishment, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He held senior executive positions, including at the Senior Assistant Deputy Minister level. Bob is a member of: the Board of Directors for Quantum Safe Canada, the Advisory Council on Ethics and Modernization of Microdata Access with Statistics Canada, the Advisory Board for the Master of Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence program with the University of Guelph, the Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership Scientific Executive Committee, and the Advisory Group for the Mastercard Emerging Leaders Cyber Initiative.
Paul Jarrett
Paul is the Director of Research Security at the University of Toronto, where he leads a small team providing research and geopolitical security advice to U of T’s research community and partners. Before joining U of T, Paul was a Senior Advisor to the Ontario Government and was a national security practitioner in the Federal Government for over a decade. Paul holds a BA and MA in history from Wilfrid Laurier University and an MA in strategic studies from the Australian National University.
Thomas Juneau
Thomas Juneau is associate professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. His research focuses on the Middle East, in particular Iran and Yemen, and on Canadian foreign and defence policy and international relations theory. He is also currently conducting a number of research projects on the relationship between intelligence analysis and policymaking in Canada. From 2003 until 2014, he worked with Canada’s Department of National Defence, mostly as a policy analyst covering the Middle East. He also acts as a consultant for various departments with the Canadian government and is a frequent commentator in Canadian and international media. He tweets @thomasjuneau.
Arne Kislenko
Arne is a professor with the Department of History at Ryerson University and the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Programme at the University of Toronto. He specializes in 19th and 20th century international relations, the history of espionage, the history of terrorism, US foreign relations, and modern Southeast Asia. He has served on the Board of Executives for CASIS since 2004.
Leah West
Leah West is an Associate Professor at the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. She completed her SJD at the University of Toronto and previously served as Counsel with the National Security Litigation and Advisory Group within the Department of Justice. She is the co-author, along with Craig Forcese of National Security Law, 2nd ed. and co-editor of Stress Tested: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Canadian National Security.
Reem Zaia
Reem is a litigator at Gowling WLG in Ottawa. She practices criminal/white collar, regulatory, and national security law from an advisory and defence perspective. Between 2022-2023, Reem served as the Director of Policy and Legal Affairs to Canada’s Public Safety Minister. Reem holds an LL.M. from the University of Toronto. She is a part-time Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law where she teaches a seminar course on “Extremism in Canada”. The majority of Reem’s scholarship focuses on anti-terrorism and criminal laws in Canada.