Blair McMurren
Director for Employment and Social Development Canada
Blair McMurren is Director of Social Innovation in the Strategic and Service Policy Branch at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), where he is responsible for policy development as well as outreach and engagement related to the Government of Canada’s commitment to develop a federal Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy. He also helped to launch an Innovation Lab at ESDC that is prototyping and testing innovative solutions to policy, program, and service delivery challenges across the department’s portfolio, in collaboration with other public sector innovation labs.