David Donovan

David is Senior Lead, Research Integration and Strategic Initiatives. This entails working across and within Impact Canada’s research and challenge activities to identify meaningful and cross-cutting insights on emerging issues to inform policy.

Before joining the Privy Council Office, David was responsible for advancing private sector partnership and international development finance efforts at Global Affairs Canada. David is the former research director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University.

David graduated with a BA (Honours with Distinction) in Political Studies and Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Queen’s. He was also a Sauvé Fellow of the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation.