Danielle Goldfarb

Dr. Danielle
Goldfarb

Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and Centre for International Governance Innovation

Danielle Goldfarb is an advisor and expert on the digital economy, real-time data, trade, and public policy. Danielle’s TEDx talk, “The Smartest Way to Predict the Future”, is on using new technologies to expand data coverage and improve prediction. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and a distinguished fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Danielle is a co-author of the 2025 International AI Safety Report, co-director of the Canadian AI Adoption Initiative and the author of Digital Data and Advanced AI for Richer Global Intelligence. Danielle was previously strategic advisor on public policy to Mila–Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, a global fellow at the Wilson Center Canada Institute, VP and research director at Real-Time Interactive Worldwide Intelligence, and led research programs 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.