March 2012 - Fred Eisenberger, President and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute, is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s Jane Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award is Anne Golden, to recognize her long-standing leadership in public policy, her academic work and her varied leadership experience in business, not-for-profit and government sectors.  Ms. Golden will receive the award on Friday June 8, 2012 at the CUI’s annual Urban Leadership Awards, to be held at the Toronto Board of Trade, First Canadian Place

 

Since 2001, Ms. Golden has been President and CEO of The Conference Board of Canada, the country’s foremost independent not-for-profit applied research organization. During her tenure, the Conference Board expanded its mandate to include research into social policy and global competitiveness for an annual state-of-the-nation report, which tied social policy and progress into the Conference Board’s core strength of economic forecasting. She also co-authored Volume III: Mission Possible: Successful Canadian Cities (2007) as part of The Canada Project, the largest public policy project undertaken by The Conference Board.

 

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