Helaina Gaspard
Managing Director
Helaina is a co-founder of IFSD and leads the organization’s work in governance, institutional and policy assessment and design and decision support. Helaina’s approach to advisory work applies disciplined research design, methodology, data collection and analysis, integrated with a results-focus, reflecting real-world client needs. She has led engagements supporting some of IFSD’s biggest client successes particularly as it relates to Indigenous reconciliation and independent fiscal institutions.
In 2019, Helaina authored Canada’s Official Languages: Policy Versus Work Practice in the Federal Public Service (University of Ottawa Press).
Helaina has a BA (Hons) from The University of Western Ontario, an MA from Queen’s University, and a PhD from the University of Ottawa.