Kate Geddie
Interim Executive Director, Research
About
Kate Geddie is the Interim Executive Director, Research at CIFAR. She provides strategic research leadership and oversight of CIFAR’s suite of global research programs, ensuring alignment with the organization’s values and vision for excellence. She leads strategy alignment, evaluation and learning, and has a particular interest in assessing the international, interdisciplinary and long-term nature of CIFAR’s work.
Kate completed her PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Prior to joining CIFAR, she directed public policy research and analysis on a wide range of issues related to higher education, research and innovation in Canada and Europe. She has worked for the University of Toronto, the European University Association in Brussels, Universities Canada (AUCC) in Ottawa, and her research has been funded by SSHRC, the European Commission, and the Swiss National Science Foundation.