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Arthur Carty

National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister

Dr. Arthur Carty is the National Science Advisor (NSA) to the Prime Minister. Before his appointment as NSA in April 2004, he was President of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the federal government’s leading knowledge and innovation organization for 10 years. Dr. Carty has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Nottingham University. Prior to joining NRC in July 1994, he spent two years at Memorial University and then 27 years at the University of Waterloo where he was successively, Professor of Chemistry, Chair of the Chemistry Department and Dean of Research.

Dr. Carty still maintains an active research group at NRC and continues to publish in his field of synthetic chemistry and metallic clusters. He has over 285 publications in refereed journals, and 5 patents in addition to book chapters and review articles. He is a former President of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and of the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Among his many awards are the Alcan Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada, the E.W.R. Steacie Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Montreal Medal of the Chemical Institute of Canada and the Purvis Award of the Society of Chemical Industry. He has received ten honorary degrees from Canadian and foreign universities, is an Officer of the Order of Canada and Officier de l’Ordre national du Merite of France.

He serves on more than a dozen Boards, including two of the Networks of Centres of Excellence, Genome Canada and five S&T Advisory Boards for other departments and agencies.