Board of Directors

Ian Anderson, Chair

Ian Anderson is a vice-chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board and a lawyer with practical experience in labour law, workers’ compensation, and constitutional and civil litigation. He founded the workers’ rights group at Parkdale Community Legal Services in Toronto and was the first chair of the workers’ compensation section of the Ontario Bar Association.

Dr. Carolyn Tuohy, Vice-Chair

Dr. Carolyn Tuohy is a professor with the department of political science at the University of Toronto and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of Policy and Politics in Canada: Institutionalized Ambivalence (Temple University Press, 1992), a treatment of Canadian public policy in a comparative perspective.

Dev Chopra

Dev Chopra is executive vice-president of corporate services and redevelopment at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is responsible for all business functions at CAMH, including finance, human resources and information management.

Jane Davis

Jane Davis is a director of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Ontario. She is a senior risk management professional with extensive knowledge of the regulatory environment in the brokerage, mutual fund and private banking businesses.

Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia is a professional engineer who provides advisory and management consulting services to CEOs and CIOs in the health-care, government and not-for-profit sectors. Previously, he was with Accenture for 19 years, where his roles included managing partner of the health and life sciences group in Canada. He is currently the chair of EcoWaste Solutions, an environmental technology company.

Melody Kratsios

Melody Kratsios is senior vice-president of health, safety, security, environment and quality at SNC-Lavalin Inc., Infrastructure and Construction. She is an engineer with more than 25 years of broad-based, operational experience in Canada, China, Latin America and the Middle East. She is fluent in four languages.

Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy is the Canadian director of research and special programs for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. He is responsible for coordinating the union’s shareholder activism program in Canada, which influences corporate behaviour and performance through the filing of shareholder proposals and attendance at company annual general meetings.

Lisa McCaskell

Lisa McCaskell is the senior health and safety officer at the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. She is also a member of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board's Research Advisory Council.

Dr. Cameron Mustard

Dr. Cameron Mustard is president and senior scientist at the Institute for Work & Health and a professor in the department of public health sciences at the University of Toronto. He has a background in public health sciences, with an emphasis on epidemiology and health policy.

John O'Grady

John O’Grady is a partner at Prism Economics and Analysis and a consulting economist specializing in labour market and industry analysis. As a visiting senior researcher at the Economic Council of Canada, he studied the impact of compulsory arbitration in the public sector, and the relationship between industrial relations and changes in work organization.

Dr. Barbara Silverstein

Dr. Barbara Silverstein is research director with the Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention Program (SHARP) at the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. With research expertise in musculoskeletal disorders, she has worked on ergonomic-related issues at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the University of Michigan Center for Ergonomics and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.