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Inez Jabalpurwala | President & Chief Executive Officer – Public Policy Forum Global Director VINEx – Viral Neuro Exploration

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Inez Jabalpurwala (she/her) has extensive experience building and leading teams, organizations and cross-sector collaborations in science, technology and innovation, academia, and international development. She is currently the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Public Policy Forum, a leading Canadian think tank.

Inez founded and is Global Director of VINEx, a non-profit corporation that was established early in the COVID-19 pandemic to understand how viruses and other infectious agents may affect the central nervous system. That work expanded to explore how the environment and brain health intersect, aligned with the World Health Organization’s One Health approach. She was previously the Executive Leader of the Brain Health Nexus, a global collaboration to unleash science and technology to optimize brain health and prevent brain disease. The initial focus was developing the case and roadmap for a Global Brain Health Index, to measure and monitor brain health across the life course. She was the Founding President and CEO of the Brain Canada Foundation from 2001 to 2020. When she joined, the organization had about $1 million in assets; she grew this to over $400 million. Under her leadership Brain Canada provided research grants totaling $250 million and involving more than 1,000 scientists and clinicians based at 115 institutions across Canada.

Inez currently serves on the Board of Governors of McGill University, co-Chairs the joint Board-Senate Committee on EDI and is a member of the Human Resources Committee; is a past President of the McGill Alumni Association; is a member of McGill University’s Campaign Cabinet for its $2B capital campaign and is Chair of the McGill Fund Leadership Circle; and is a Desautels Global Expert in McGill University’s Faculty of Management. She is a long-standing member of the Board and on the Executive Committee of Equitas—International Centre for Human Rights Education, which works to advance equality, social justice and respect for human dignity in Canada and around the world through human rights education. She is a member of the Economic Development and Public Finance Committee of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal. She is a member of the International Women’s Forum and a long-time mentor of young women.

Inez has served as an advisor to the federal government on strategic science investments, and served on the committee of research experts who informed the development of ecosystem-wide recommendations for the Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaborative.

Inez was named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 by the Women’s Executive Network, in the “Trailblazers and Trendsetters Category” in 2007, and again in 2016 and 2022.

Inez holds a BA and MA in English Literature, and an MBA from McGill University; she has also completed the Master of Management program for voluntary sector leaders.