Luke Babad

Luke Babad is a Senior Lead for Behavioural Science at the Impact and Innovation Unit within the Privy Council Office where he focuses on emerging programs in borders, travel and immigration. In this role he works with a team of behavioural scientists to identify and understand people-centred public policy challenges and to test and scale solutions, with the end goal of helping Government of Canada services resonate more meaningfully in the lives of Canadians.

Luke has built his career in policy redesign for the Government of Canada. He has held positions at Indigenous Services Canada in program evaluation, housing and infrastructure reform, and the transfer of departmental responsibilities to Indigenous partners. He has also worked in challenge prizes for Impact Canada and, at the onset and height of the pandemic, worked in the Privy Council Office’s COVID-19 Secretariat.

Luke holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from Carleton University’s Norman Patterson School of International Affairs (2014), a Master of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management (2020) and a certificate in Leadership and Management Skills from the Institut de Leadership (2023).