Press Release
Monday, October 15, 2018
Jonathan Williams named Executive Director of the Donald J. Savoie Institute
Before taking on this role, Mr. Williams was a Senior Consultant with Higher Education Strategy Associates, an external consultant with the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills and a Research Assistant to Professor Robert Putnam of Harvard University. He also served as the Executive Director of Students Nova Scotia from 2012-2015, representing over 37,000 of the province’s post-secondary students.
Jonathan Williams has authored publications or consulting reports on such topics as the role of the culture sector in economic development in Nova Scotia, collaboration and consolidation in higher education, and trends in regional inequality in the United States.
“Mr. Williams demonstrates a natural intellectual curiosity for important public policy matters and their impact on the regions at the national and international levels. He is dynamic and has a very strong capacity to develop research partnerships and mobilize knowledge. He seems poised to give a renewed direction to the Institute,” stated Annie Boudreau, President of the Board of Directors of the Donald J. Savoie Institute.
Originally from Nova Scotia, Mr. Williams has a Bachelor’s degree in social sciences (international development and globalisation) from the University of Ottawa. He is a Knox Fellow and Graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Master in Public Policy program.
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