{"id":48545,"date":"2019-07-10T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?page_id=48545"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:09:09","slug":"paul-davidson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/about-us\/our-leadership-team\/board-of-governors\/governors\/paul-davidson\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Davidson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Paul-Davidson-Profile.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Davidson\" class=\"wp-image-48546\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Chair, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Paul Davidson has played leadership roles in government, the private sector, and the voluntary sector for over 30 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">He joined Universities Canada in May 2009 as President and CEO.\u202fUniversities Canada is the voice of Canada\u2019s universities at home and abroad. In addition to increases in research funding, Mr. Davidson has achieved increased resources for work-integrated learning and international opportunities for students. He has also advocated for increased attention to issues of access and success for indigenous students.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:150,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Prior to joining Universities Canada, Mr. Davidson was the executive director of World University Service of Canada (WUSC).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:150,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Mr. Davidson also held senior positions in Canadian book publishing including five years as executive director of the Association of Canadian Publishers. In the early 1990s, Mr. Davidson led the Toronto office of a prominent government relations firm after having served as a political advisor to Ontario\u2019s Leader of the Opposition, Treasurer and Deputy Premier.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:150,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Mr. Davidson is married to Elly Vandenberg, and they have three young adult sons.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:150,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Appointed in 2019 until 2025.<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Davidson has played leadership roles in government, the private sector, and the voluntary sector for over 30 years.\u00a0 He joined Universities Canada in May 2009 as President and CEO.\u202fUniversities Canada is the voice of Canada\u2019s universities at home and abroad. In addition to increases in research funding, Mr. Davidson has achieved increased resources for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":4553,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48545\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}