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Co-President

Board of Directors

Game-Changer Members

Michele Mastroeni

Prof. Michele Mastroeni is the Co-Executive President of the Archipelago of Design (AOD) and Director of AOD’s research team. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and is Associate Professor at OCAD University in Strategic Foresight and Innovation. His research is focused on exploring innovation systems, innovation policy.

Before his time at OCAD U, he was a Senior Policy Advisor with the Ontario Public Service, Senior Analyst at the Conference Board of Canada and before that at RAND Europe, as well as Research Fellow at the Innogen Institute at the University of Edinburgh.

He has worked closely with government clients such as the UK Ministry of Defence, as well as industry and civil society stakeholders, to improve the innovation systems they operated in.