CBG Board of Directors Chair
Rob Gordon served for six years as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Windsor until his retirement in 2025. Before that, he served as Provost & Vice President of Academics, and Vice President of Research at Wilfred Laurier University and the Dean of the Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph.
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Mark Blaxter is Head of the Tree of Life Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. He leads a programme that aims to generate and analyse reference genome sequences
Ontario Securities Commission
Theresa Ebden is the Vice President of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Office, within the Strategic Regulation branch.
University of Oxford
Sir Charles Godfray is Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Population Biology at Oxford University. He has broad interests in science and the interplay of science and policy and has spent his career at Oxford University and Imperial College.
Interim Dean, College of Biological Science
Dr. Holloway’s research focuses on understanding the regulation of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation in skeletal and cardiac muscle, which can be influenced by 1) the transport of fat into mitochondria and 2) mitochondrial content. Holloway’s lab applies this knowledge to the study of human exercise performance as well as type 2 diabetes.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Rebecca Johnson is the Associate Director for Science and Chief Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History. She is responsible for the overall leadership and administration of the museum’s research and collections activities.
International Conservation Fund of Canada
Anne is with the International Conservation Fund of Canada (ICFC), which has projects in over thirty countries in Latin American, Asia and Africa. A Guelph biology grad, Anne worked as a biologist and ran a small business before co-founding ICFC in 2007.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Edwin van Huis studied biology in Utrecht and Gainesville Florida, and business management in Rotterdam. He worked most of his professional career in the arts.
