Bio
Danielle Goldfarb is a CIGI senior fellow and an expert on trade, real-time data, economics and public policy. She has developed leading-edge research programs and written nearly 100 policy papers for Canadian and US think tanks. She is a distinguished fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and a fellow at the Canadian Standards Association Public Policy Centre.
Danielle was part of the writing group for the 2025 International AI Safety Report. Her TEDx talk, “The Smartest Way to Predict the Future,” is about using new technologies to expand data coverage and improve prediction. She teaches about real-time data and AI for global intelligence at the Munk School and hosts the New Tools of the Economists’ Trade series for the Canadian Association for Business Economics and the Toronto Association for Business and Economics. She also co-directs the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Adoption Initiative, in which CIGI is a founding partner.
Previously, Danielle was a strategic adviser on public policy to Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, a global fellow at the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute and the vice president and research director at Real-Time Interactive Worldwide Intelligence, where she created real-time economic and geopolitical data feeds. She also led frontier research programs on digital and Canada-US trade at the C.D. Howe Institute and the Conference Board of Canada.
Danielle holds a master of philosophy in international relations from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor of commerce in honours economics from McGill University.