Governance


The Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS), housed within the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (the Fund).

The Fund’s steering committee is responsible for providing strategic direction for the program, and is the body that approves funding recommendations made by the selection board.


Steering committee

Sylvie A. Lamoureux (Chair)
Vice-president, Research, SSHRC

Alejandro Adem
President, NSERC

Sylvain Charbonneau
President and CEO, CFI

Shalene Curtis-Micallef
Deputy Minister, Health Canada

Paul Hébert
President, CIHR

Philip Jennings
Deputy Minister, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada