Susan McDaniel, FRSC is Professor of Sociology, Adjunct, and Research Affiliate, Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health, University of Victoria, and Distinguished University Professor, University of Alberta. She has previously been on faculty at the Universities of Lethbridge, Waterloo, Alberta and Utah. From 2009 – 2019 she was Founding Director, Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy, Prentice Research Chair and Canada Research Chair in Global Population and Life Course. Author of 8 books and 200+ research articles and book chapters, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the recipient of many research and teaching awards including both the Kaplan Award for Outstanding Research and the University Cup for outstanding research and teaching at the University of Alberta. In 2016, she was one of three scholars in Canada to be shortlisted for the SSHRC Impact Award. She was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, nominated by the Royal Society of Canada. Her book, Global Ageing in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications, co-edited with Zachary Zimmer, was published in 2013. Her 2015 book, States and Markets: Public Policy Challenges, is published by Oxford University Press. Her current research is on the longitudinal implications for Canadians and Americans as they age in the wake of the Great Recession and the current political and health upheaval, on life course and well-being.
She is President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Families (RC06) and is elected to the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association.

Lynn Barr-Telford is the Assistant Chief Statistician of the Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field at Statistics Canada. Lynn holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Carleton University and has several years of experience as a senior Executive with responsibility for large, complex statistical programs. The Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field provides accurate, timely and relevant information across a range of social subject matters to decision makers at all levels of government, to non-governmental organizations, to researchers and to the Canadian public. The portfolio includes a number of large survey and administrative data programs such as the Centre for Population Health Data; the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics; the Centre for Gender, Diversity and Inclusion; and the Centre for Labour Market Information, among others. The Field is also the home for Canadian Census content expertise.

Jennifer Robson is an Associate Professor of Political Management at Carleton where she teaches courses on Canadian public policy and policy research. Her current research projects include income volatility, poverty reduction and tax-filing.