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is a Canadian writer and science administrator with an interest
in innovation history, research ethics, and gender issues in
technology. His works include the celebrated biographies George J. Klein: The Great Inventor and Her Daughter the Engineer: The Life of Elsie Gregory MacGill as well as contributions to several best-selling histories of Canadian invention.
He is currently a Board member and Communications Committee Chair for the Long Point World Biosphere Region. Previously, he acted as Chair of the International Expert Advisory Board for the European Union Horizon 2020 Path2Integrity Project (2018-2022).
A three-time recipient of the NRC Canada Outstanding Achievement Award for public awareness of science and other national recognitions, he has served on a number science outreach bodies, most recently as a member of the International Council for Science – Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science (ICSU CFRS), the Human, Social and Natural Sciences Sectoral Commission of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the Organizing Committee of the 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity, and as Coordinating Chair of the Universality of Science Thematic Session at the World Science Forum (Jordan) 2017, Chair of the NRC Centennial: 100 Years of Innovation for Canada, and Chair of the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) Public Affairs and Communications Committee.
A three-time recipient of the NRC Canada Outstanding Achievement Award for public awareness of science and other national recognitions, he has served on a number science outreach bodies, most recently as a member of the International Council for Science – Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science (ICSU CFRS), the Human, Social and Natural Sciences Sectoral Commission of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the Organizing Committee of the 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity, and as Coordinating Chair of the Universality of Science Thematic Session at the World Science Forum (Jordan) 2017, Chair of the NRC Centennial: 100 Years of Innovation for Canada, and Chair of the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) Public Affairs and Communications Committee.
His
thirty-five-years in government concluded with a four-year term as
Secretary General of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) (2014- 2018).
In this role, he acted as corporate secretary and as NRC's senior officer for
values and ethics. Previously, he served as the NRC Director of Corporate
Governance and acted as Director General of Communications and Corporate
Relations. He was NRC Project Manager for the Millennium Conferences on Creativity and Innovation and Editor of Renaissance II, the book recounting the conference series.
Before joining NRC in 1987, Bourgeois-Doyle was Chief of Staff and Director of Communications to the Minister of Science and Technology and Chief of Staff to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. He also served as Legislative Assistant, Press Secretary, and Speechwriter for other Members of Parliament as well as the elected Chair of the Parliamentary Assistants Assembly (1983-1984). He helped found and manage two public relations firms in Ottawa (BalloonIt and Hot Air from Ottawa) and a resource inventory company (Timberline) in British Columbia (1975-1977). A former broadcaster and journalist, he has written a number of books on science and innovation and contributed to many conferences, TV features, articles, and radio programs on the history of science and technology in Canada.
For many years, he contributed as a podcaster and columnist with Canadian Science Publishing, an award-winning publisher of scholarly journals, and authored the Science Mutters blog for Science.gc.ca, the official source for science and technology information from the Government of Canada.
Before joining NRC in 1987, Bourgeois-Doyle was Chief of Staff and Director of Communications to the Minister of Science and Technology and Chief of Staff to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. He also served as Legislative Assistant, Press Secretary, and Speechwriter for other Members of Parliament as well as the elected Chair of the Parliamentary Assistants Assembly (1983-1984). He helped found and manage two public relations firms in Ottawa (BalloonIt and Hot Air from Ottawa) and a resource inventory company (Timberline) in British Columbia (1975-1977). A former broadcaster and journalist, he has written a number of books on science and innovation and contributed to many conferences, TV features, articles, and radio programs on the history of science and technology in Canada.
For many years, he contributed as a podcaster and columnist with Canadian Science Publishing, an award-winning publisher of scholarly journals, and authored the Science Mutters blog for Science.gc.ca, the official source for science and technology information from the Government of Canada.
Bourgeois-Doyle is also author of Burnstown
Publishing’s What’s So Funny?
Lessons from Canada’s Leacock Medal, the first comprehensive review of
winners of Canada’s leading humour writing award and the General Store
Publishing House biography Stubborn:
Big Ed Caswell and the Line from the Valley to the Northland. He has also
written and published a political satire series in the form of parodies of
classic literature (Governing Travails, The Principle, and Don Quincy).
His
awards and recognitions for humour include local writing and public speaking contests in both French and English and the 2011 CBC Literary Awards Great Canadian Post Card Contest. He is an Honorary Life Member of the Leacock Associates, the organization that awards the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.
