Bio
Danielle Goldfarb is a CIGI senior fellow, and an adviser and expert on the digital economy, real-time data, geopolitics, trade and public policy. She is also a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Canada Institute, a distinguished fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and an adviser on public policy to Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. She sits on the board of the Toronto Association for Business and Economics.
Danielle is known for creating leading-edge research programs and novel data approaches at the C.D. Howe Institute, the Conference Board of Canada and data tech company RIWI (Real-Time Interactive Worldwide Intelligence). These include several research programs on Canada’s trade and trade policies, collaborations to measure digital trade and the global “gig” economy, and the creation of high-frequency economic and geopolitical conflict data feeds. She has been an adviser to Statistics Canada, Global Affairs Canada, Canadian parliamentary committees, the deputy minister of trade and the Prime Minister’s Office. Danielle was named by Maclean’s magazine as “one of Canada’s top trade experts.”
One of Danielle’s current areas of research is on the potential of the data and artificial intelligence explosion to improve public interest outcomes, while also confronting the risks it presents. Danielle created and teaches a popular graduate seminar on the use of “digital intelligence” to inform global affairs and public policy at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Her TEDx talk, “The Smartest Way to Predict the Future,” is about leveraging new technologies to address data bias, improving prediction.
Danielle holds a master of philosophy in international relations from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor of commerce in honours economics from McGill University.