Chief Data Officer, Housing Infrastructure Communities Canada

Eric Gagné was appointed as the first CDO of Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities Canada in October 2022. Evidence based decision making, and modernizing business and services has been a thread in his 20+ years career in the Federal Government. Data is the heart and at the core of his interest and expertise.
For the last 15 years, Éric held several executive positions in GoC, notably at Environment and Climate Change Canada as the Director General (DG) Digital Strategies and IM, A/DG Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, and DG Science Policy. He also worked at Public Services and Procurement Canada as a Senior Director in the Federal S&T Infrastructure Initiative. In this time, he was at the ground floor setting the stage for open science and data, catalyzed regulatory data modernization, and launched modern enterprise data and information services.