:: Who is Dr. John Samuel? ::

CURRICULUM VITAE OF JOHN SAMUEL

Business Telephone: (613) 523-5349 | Fax: (613) 523-4640 | Home Telephone: (613) 733-9422

Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto

Work Experience:

• President, John Samuel & Associates Inc. 1994-

(Contracts received from the Privy Council Office, Public Service Commission, HRDC, HRSDC, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, CIDA, Department of Justice, Industry Canada, Health Canada, Statistics Canada, School of Public Service, United Nations, International Labour Office (Geneva), Government of Ontario, Carleton Board of Education, Public Broadcasting Services (Washington, DC), First Air, Dollco Printing, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Royal Commonwealth Society, and Canadian Advertising Foundation, among others.)

ESR and Race Relations Specific Experience as Project Manager

a) Experience in managing project teams: In 2005, John Samuel & Associates completed a very complex project for HRSDC in collaboration with the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Toronto and the Laurier Institution in Vancouver. The project involved the development of a Strategy for a Racism-Free Workplace. It involved over 40 focus groups, 33 workshops, and 29 partnership sessions in eight cities: Vancouver, Regina, Winnipeg, Calgary, Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. More than 15 consultants including several academics were involved. The report is available at: www.canada.gc.ca. Click on Departments and Agencies and then on ‘H’. Go to HRSDC and then to Labour Program – Employment Equity. The project was completed in three months.

In the capacity of Chief/Director in the Government of Canada since the 1980s, he managed numerous project teams of different types (such as task forces) and purposes (such as policy development). As head of the consulting firm since 1994, he headed several project teams in Canada and abroad. They include: Chief, Canadian delegation for UNCTAD (A U.N. Agency) in Geneva, Chief, U.N. Evaluation Team in Tunisia. In Canada, he managed all project teams in the ESR area (CIDA, Department of Justice, Privy Council Office, Public Service Commission, Industry Canada, School of Public Service, First Air, and Dollco Printing.)

Conducting Surveys: Conducted a number of surveys including some longitudinal ones in Employment and Immigration Canada during 1969-1987. The sampling frame, questionnaires, instructions for editing, framework for analysis, etc. were determined. The sample sizes varied from 3,000 to 15,000. In every case a report was prepared.

Since 1994 (after setting up of the consulting firm), the survey activity was continued. In 1996, a survey of Public Service employees and managers in 14 government departments/agencies was conducted for the Canadian Human Rights Commission. There were five different questionnaires involved. Since 2000, surveys were conducted among a sample of Executives in the Public Service, in Industry Canada and First Air in the context of an Employment Systems Review.

1. Conducting Workforce Analysis
   Since 1999, workforce analysis was conducted in the Privy Council Office, CIDA, Department of Justice, First Air and Dollco Printing.
   
   
2. Conducting Employment Systems Review (ESR)
   Since 1999, ESRs have been conducted for the Privy Council Office, CIDA, Department of Justice, PSC, Industry Canada, School of Public Service, First Air and Dollco Printing.
   
   
3. Developing an Employment Equity Plan
   Employment Equity Plans have been developed for the Privy Council Office, Dollco Printing, First Air and Department of Justice.
   
   
4. Identifying employment equity performance indicators and evaluation tools.
   Prepared evaluation framework for employment equity and Federal Contractors Program evaluation framework for HRDC.
   
   
5. Conducting interviews and/or focus groups of employees concerning employment barriers faced by members of designated groups.
   Conducted scores of interviews/focus groups in the Privy Council Office, CIDA, Public Service Commission, Department of Justice, Industry Canada, School of Public Service, Dollco Printing and First Air. The interviewees ranged from individual employees who wanted confidential interviews to Directors, DGs, ADMs (Vice-Presidents), DMs (Treasury Board) and the Presidents of PSC and CIDA. The focus groups of all the four designated groups and groups of those who are not designated were conducted. Focus groups of employees in the private sector such as First Air was also part of the work involved.
   
   
6. Facilitating group decision processes and group cohesion.
   Moderated a number of such groups in different capacities including as Executive Director, Canada Employment and Immigration Advisory Council from 1988-92. The Council had representatives of business, labour, NGOs and academics and the Council was expected to consult with them and provide policy input directly to the Minister. Similar work has also been done in the capacity of president of numerous voluntary organizations.
   
   
7. Reviewing practices on EE activities for establishing and maintaining records.
   In all the departments mentioned above and for First Air, this has been done.

He is/was:

• Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, 1985 -
• Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick, 1999-2002.
• Special Advisor/Executive director/Senior Director, Employment and Immigration Canada,1989-1994.
• Director, Race Relations, Department of the Secretary of State, 1988 - 1989. Organized the first March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
• Director/Chief, Migration and Demographic Policy/Strategic Planning, Employment and Immigration Canada (EIC), 1981-1988(with EIC since 1969).
• Visiting Professor, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (a post-graduate research and teaching institution), Tijuana, Mexico, 1994.
• Chief of Canadian delegation to UNCTAD, Geneva, 1988; Member, Canadian delegation to OECD meetings, Paris, 1988; Represented Employment and Immigration at the Economic Commission for Europe meetings, Geneva, 1986; Advisor to Canadian Delegation of U.N. International Population Conference, Mexico, 1984; Represented EIC at a U.N. Meeting, New York, 1981.
• Appeared as witness before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Labour, Employment and Immigration, March 1990 and February 1985 and the House of Commons Standing Committee on Multiculturalism and Citizenship, 1989.
• Secretary, Research Grants and Manpower Training Research Program, 1977-81.
• Gave courses at Ottawa and Carleton Universities, and guided students in research, 1985 -
  

Other Experience:

• Member, National Action Committee on Race Relations, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, 1993-96
• Member, Commissioner’s Advisory Committee of Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Multicultural Issues, 1988-1994.
• Chairman, Advisory Committee on Visible Minorities, City of Ottawa, 1985-1988.
  
• Trustee, Riverside Hospital, 1984-90 and Chair, Quality Assurance Committee, 1987-90.
• Elected Trustee, Ottawa Board of Education, 1976-80 (Chaired the Board's Management Committee handling a budget of $125 million, Task Force and later Committee on Multiculturalism - was instrumental in introducing a policy on multiculturalism at the Ottawa Board which was later adopted by other boards. Headed Special Educational Needs Committee and Collective Bargaining Team).
• External Examiner for Master's and Ph.D. Theses, Carleton University, University of Calgary, Universities of Kerala and Sri Vekateswara.
• Referee to assess projects/papers for Social Sciences and Humanities Research
  Council, Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Population Studies, International Migration Review, etc.
• United Way Campaign Executive in charge of four government departments, 1983.
  

Honours & Awards:

• Awarded Gold Medal by the Employment Equity Council of Toronto, 1998.
  
• Awarded Canada's 125th Anniversary Medal for community service, 1993. A second medal awarded for work with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1993.
  
• Listed in Canadian Who's Who since 1989.
  
• Winner of Information Services Institute award for Profiles in Canadian Immigration, 1987.
  
• M.V. Nair Gold Medal, A.V. George Gold Medal and Lepper Memorial Gold Medal from University of Kerala.
  

Public Speaking, Panels, Public Forums:

Speaker at international conferences on various aspects of human resources:

• Spain: ILO Seminar in Santander, 1995
  
• Australia: Asia-Pacific Migration, the meeting of the Population Association of Australia, Australian universities of James Cook, Western Sydney, and Adelaide, 1993. Melbourne, Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission, Melbourne, Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission of Western Australia, Perth, November-December, 1990;
  
• New Zealand: the University of Waikato, 1993.
  
• USA: the State University of San Diego, 1994; Wayne State University, Detroit, 1991.
  
• Mexico: El Collegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana. 1993.
  
• India: Indian Association for Canadian Studies Annual Meeting and for lecture tours of universities of New Delhi, Bombay, Baroda, Kerala, and Utkal. 1993, 1995.
  
• Canada: Canadian Advertising Foundation, Toronto, Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Organizations, Toronto, Regional Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, Federation of Canadian Municipalities Annual Convention, Montreal, Canadian Police College, Ottawa, the University of British Columbia Forum on Multiculturalism, Vancouver, special presentation to the Mayors of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver and the Minister of Multiculturalism and Citizenship, Vancouver, Focus on Employment, City of Ottawa, Multicultural Policing Workshop, Ontario Ministry of Solicitor General, Ottawa, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University, Multiculturalism and Policing Conference, Richmond, BC, International Conference on Human Rights, Ottawa, and many others.
  
• Radio/TV/newspaper interviews: Several in Canada, USA New Zealand and Australia.
  

Papers/Publications:

More than 80 in journals and books

The journals include: The Journal of Intergroup Relations, Currents, Canadian Forum, Immigrants and Minorities, International Journal of Canadian Studies, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Population Review, Canadian Studies in Population, Manpower Journal, Asian Economic Review, Ontario Economic Review, etc.

The books/monographs include: Canadian Diversity: 2000 and Beyond, Critical Issues in Canadian Society, The Mass Media and Canadian Diversity, Readings in Population, Impact of Immigration, Canada, Canadian Immigrants, Literacy and the Economy, etc.

Published the first Visible Minority Projections for Canada in 1987 and a more detailed projections in 1992 for the Canadian Advertising Foundation.

Unpublished reports include: Canadian Labour Force Projections, Handicapped Persons Study, Migration and Development.