Dr. Henri Rothschild has over 30 years of leadership experience in the planning and execution of national and global science and technology (S&T) initiatives that address Canadian innovation objectives. He is currently President & CEO of three strategic and complementary S&T organizations in Canada’s system of innovation: Precarn, an appointment in 2009; International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada (ISTPCanada), an organization he helped to create in 2007; and the Canada-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (CIIRDF), which he has managed since its inception in 1994. 

Prior to CIIRDF, Dr. Rothschild held a number of positions of increasing responsibilities associated with the management and commercialization of research, reaching the level of Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Technology, and later Chief Scientist at Industry Canada.  Dr. Rothschild has served as director of the University of Toronto’s Innovation Foundation where he was interim President and CEO from 1998 to 1999, Canadian member of the scientific delegation to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) 1974-81, Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the International Human Frontiers Science Program,  as well as having held leading positions in many other international organizations such as the OECD. In December 1999, Dr. Rothschild was the recipient of the 10^th Anniversary Medal of the International Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP), an award presented at the White House.  

Dr. Rothschild has a Bachelor of Science from the Université de Montréal, and a Masters and PhD of Science from Purdue University.