Ross Wallace

"Changing the Landscape: The Transformative Impact of Public Private Partnerships on the Fight Against 'neglected diseases'" - Executive Summary - Full Report - Press Release - University of Toronto Asset Map – "A Sum Greater than its   Parts? Focusing the University of Toronto on Global Health"

Bio

Ross is currently the Director of Corporate Strategy with MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. In the past he has worked with the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity as Senior Research Associate (2004), with Corporate Knights as Executive Editor (2003), and the G7 Group in Washington DC as managing Editor (2001). Ross has also Co-Chaired the Rotman Conference on Business and Society entitled "Corporate Citizenship: What's a CEO to do?". In addition, Ross has served on the National Organizing Committee of the Canada25 National Policy Conference in Victoria, BC in 2002, and as moderator and facilitator of the conference in Ottawa in 2004. He has also edited a number of publications and reports for Canada25 including the national report on Canada's future foreign policy entitled: "From Middle Power to Model Power: Recharging Canada's Role in the World".

Ross has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from Queen's University in Kingston (1996), a Masters of Public Administration from the School of Policy Studies at Queen's (1997), and a Masters of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Issue of Investigation

As a 2006 recipient of the Gordon Global Fellowship, Ross examined how public-private partnerships are fundamentally re-shaping the neglected disease landscape, and how four of the most innovative examples are impacting the discovery and development of new drugs. His research also identified the critical mass of related expertise clustered around the University of Toronto, and argued for global health becoming a core element of the University’s evolving international outreach strategy.