John Giraldez

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About John Giraldez

John Giraldez is Director of Business Development at Indigenous Services Canada. His Directorate (~23 people) is responsible for supporting Indigenous businesses through the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business, Aboriginal Entrepreneurship Program, Article 24, Western Transportation and Innovative Solutions Canada. He was a Director at Policy Horizons Canada, a scanning and foresight organization within the Government of Canada, where he was responsible for the behavioural economics team, gamification, and experimentation. He also worked at the Canada School of Public Service. Before that, he was a Senior Regulatory Adviser at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) and the Privy Council Office (PCO). He was part of the Red Tape Reduction Commission Secretariat. At TBS Regulatory Affairs Sector and PCO Regulatory Affairs, he led the development of several major regulatory initiatives including: the Triage Statement, Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement, Performance Measurement and Evaluation Handbook, the Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide, the cost-benefit section of the Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation, the Trans-Atlantic Risk Dialogue, the Canada/US/Mexico Regulatory Impact Analysis Forum and the Instrument Choice Framework, as well as reviewing regulatory proposals as a subject matter expert. He also worked for four years at the Regulatory Affairs group of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) as an economist and was responsible for leading cost-benefit analysis across the CFIA. In 1996, he joined the Government of Canada as an economist and was responsible for developing and running econometric models of the agriculture sector and doing environmental policy studies. Before joining the Government of Canada, he was a Research Associate (economist) at the University of Guelph and a Management Consultant with Deloitte & Touche. John obtained his M.Sc. from the University of Guelph and his B.Sc. from McGill University in economics.