Lisa was appointed Executive Director of the Industrial Technologies Office (ITO) in April 2014, after joining ITO in 2013 as the Senior Director of Operations.

After completing her Bachelor in Economics at Queen’s University in 1991, she began working with Revenue Canada Customs and Excise where she spent three years in Ottawa on the implementation of the GST. In 1994, she moved to Atlantic Canada to pursue a new career challenge with the Royal Bank of Canada, where she spent five years in the commercial finance sector.

Afterwards, Lisa moved to the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency where she spent eight years in the field of regional economic development, holding a number of management positions in the areas of Programs, Trade and Investment, Corporate Services and Policy and Advocacy & Coordination.

She joined Industry Canada in 2008 as the Deputy Regional Executive Director with the Atlantic Regional Office. In 2009, after spending fifteen years in the Atlantic Region, she relocated to Ottawa to pursue opportunities in the National Capital Region within Industry Canada, particularly with the Science and Innovation Sector as the Director of the National Access Programs Directorate and as the Director General for Policy.

Lisa Setlakwe will be a panelist at the International Collaboration Panel, at 4 p.m.