Stefania Trombetti
Adjunct Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and Executive Director of the Regulatory Governance Initiative
Stefania is the Executive Director of the Regulatory Governance Initiative (RGI), an education and cross-sectoral research hub headquartered at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration. The RGI is focused on increasing regulatory capacity in Canada and in addition to advancing research and promoting dialogue, it also offers the Career Development for Regulatory Professionals Certificate Program.
Prior to joining the SPPA, Stefania had a 35-year career in Canada’s federal public service, advancing policy, international relations, and regulatory priorities in environmental, economic, and social portfolios. She held a number of senior executive roles, including leading mineral development policy and economic analysis, international and federal-provincial/territorial relations in natural resource development, and compliance and enforcement related to health and other products.
Before she retired in 2024, Stefania led the government’s policy and regulatory initiatives to improve supply chain resilience for health products as Assistant Deputy Minister of Health Canada’s Drug Shortages Task Force. Prior to that, she was Assistant Deputy Minister of the Regulatory Operations and Enforcement Branch at Health Canada, overseeing compliance and enforcement programs for all products regulated by the department, coordinating the department’s regulatory agenda, and leading federal efforts to manage and reduce health product shortages. In this capacity, she also served as ADM Co-Champion of the Community of Federal Regulators.
Stefania is a graduate of Queen’s University (M.A., Political Studies) and of the University of Ottawa (Bachelor of Social Sciences, Political Science with a Minor in Italian Studies). She also studied Italian language, culture and history at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy.