Owen Lipert
Owen Lipert
Director, Opposition International
More than three decades of policy analysis and applied research across the Government of Canada, two provincial governments, the Fraser Institute, and multi-year USAID, DFID, EU, and UNDP governance programmes. Served as Press Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada and senior policy adviser to the Minister responsible for CIDA; directed a decade-long national democracy programme in Bangladesh. Designs and validates cross-national indices on the V-Dem dataset across 105+ countries — indicator selection, normalization, statistical projection, and sensitivity analysis.
