Dra. Mihaela Ulieru

Professor Mihaela Ulieru – awarded digital economy pioneer - works with many governments and organizations seeking to make ICT an integral component of policy making for a healthier, safer, more sustainable and innovation-driven world. She led several international large-scale projects on Disaster Resilience in the awarded Adaptive Risk Management Lab which she founded with the support of Defense Research and Development and Canada Foundation for Innovation. Notable are her groundbreaking projects Self-organizing Security and Holistic Security Ecosystem summing up her work for the security of the Vancouver Olympics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPMlJ7wZu1k#action=share.

For her scientific work which has positively impacted citizens in emerging and advanced economies including Asia Pac, North America and Europe she was awarded, among many others, the “Industrial Research Chair in Intelligent Systems” and the “Canada Research Chair in e-Society” and was appointed to numerous boards among which the Science Councils of Singapore, Canada and European Commission and to the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum. Coaching young people to value relationships and making powerful introductions to assist them, has contributed to their ongoing success. One example is Garrett Camp, founder of StumbleUpon and Uber, whom she guided for his MSc degree one decade ago. She is a Research Professor at Carleton University, Global Leader with the Aspen Institute and President of the IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy, advising several high tech start-ups and non-profits around the world.