The election committee hereby publishes a list of candidates for positions on the executive and board of directors that will become vacant on July 1, 2020. In addition, candidates for positions on the executives of the sections are also provided. Candidates for the elected accreditation committees are forthcoming. Biographical sketches for all these candidates will appear later in Liaison.

MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(Three-year terms)

PRESIDENT-ELECT
(President, 2021–22; Past President, 2022–23)
Grace Yi, Western University

TREASURER
Patrick Brown, University of Toronto

MEETINGS COORDINATOR
Nadia Ghazzali, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(Two-year terms)

ATLANTIC PROVINCES
(One to be elected)
Michael McIsaac, UPEI
Guohua Yan, University of New Brunswick
Asokan Varyath, Memorial University of Newfoundland

QUEBEC  
(Two to be elected)
Cody Hyndman, Concordia University
Karim Oualkacha, University of Quebec at Montréal
Paramita Chaudhuri, McGill University
Denis Talbot, Laval University

ONTARIO
(Two to be elected)
Edward Chen, Statistics Canada
Zeny Feng, University of Guelph
Melanie Poulin-Costello, Roche
Michael Wallace, University of Waterloo
Olli Saarela, University of Toronto

MANITOBA–SASKATCHEWAN–NORTHWEST TERRITORIES–NUNAVUT
(One to be elected)
Mohammad Jafari Jozani, University of Manitoba
Yang Zhao, University of Regina

ALBERTA–BRITISH COLUMBIA–YUKON
(One to be elected)
Linglong Kong, University of Alberta
Ehsan Karim, University of British Columbia

SECTION EXECUTIVES

ACTUARIAL SCIENCE SECTION EXECUTIVE 
(Three-year terms; 2020–23)

PRESIDENT-ELECT
(President, 2021–22; Past President, 2022–23)
Andrei Badescu, University of Toronto

BIOSTATISTICS SECTION EXECUTIVE 
(Three-year terms; 2020–23)

PRESIDENT-ELECT
(President, 2021–22; Past President, 2022–23)
Rob Deardon, University of Calgary

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS SECTION EXECUTIVE
(Three-year terms; 2020–23)

PRESIDENT-ELECT
(President, 2021–22; Past President, 2022–23)
Jean-François Plante, HEC Montréal

DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS SECTION EXECUTIVE
(Three-year terms; 2020–23, with the exception of President—two-year terms, 2020–22)

PRESIDENT
(Past President, 2021–22)
Nathan Taback, University of Toronto

PRESIDENT-ELECT
(President, 2021–22; Past President, 2022–23)
Nathaniel Stevens, University of Waterloo

SECRETARY
Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, University of Calgary

TREASURER
Shirley Mills, Carleton University

PROBABILITY SECTION EXECUTIVE
(Three-year terms; 2020–23)

PRESIDENT-ELECT
(President, 2021–22; Past President, 2022–23)
Éric Marchand, University of Sherbrooke

TREASURER
Gennady Shaikhet, Carleton University

STATISTICAL EDUCATION SECTION EXECUTIVE
(Three-year terms; 2020–23)

PRESIDENT-ELECT
(President, 2021–22; Past President, 2022–23)
Bruce Dunham, University of British Columbia

SURVEY METHODS SECTION EXECUTIVE
(Three-year terms; 2020–23)

PRESIDENT-ELECT
(President, 2021–22; Past President, 2022–23)
Jean-François Beaumont, Statistics Canada

 

THE SSC ELECTION COMMITTEE 2019–2020

Robert Platt, Chair and SSC Past-President, McGill University
David Haziza, University of Montréal
Erica Moodie, McGill University
Soyean Kim, Technical Safety BC
Patrick Brown, University of Toronto
René Ferland, UQAM
Chunfang Devon Lin, Queen's University
Susie Fortier, Statistics Canada
Asokan Variyath, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Jean-François Renaud, UQAM
David Campbell, Carleton University