Instructor

Marc Dubé is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is cross-appointed to the School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation. A graduate of Queen's University (BASc) and the University of Waterloo (MASc, PhD), Marc has over 30 years’ experience in polymer reaction engineering research. He is recognized as a pioneer in the development of sustainable polymerization processes, which include the synthesis and application of polymers using renewable materials. Prof. Dubé is a Fellow of both the Chemical Institute of Canada and the Engineering Institute of Canada, has over 150 journal publications and over 150 conference presentations. He has served as Department Chair (2006-2011), Vice-Dean Research (2015-2020) for his Faculty, and more recently, Associate Vice-Provost, Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies (2025). He is currently the Co-Director of the uOttawa Leadership Academy (https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-law/civil-law/leadership-academy).

Prof. Margarida Garcia, a jurist, criminologist and sociologist. She holds the position of Professor at the Faculty of Law (University of Ottawa) and teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She teaches leadership, epistemology and the methodology of research in law. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the theme of innovation and the obstacles to innovation in law reform (especially in the area of criminal law and human rights) and institutional change. Her research focuses on the concept of human rights and relies on the contributions and active participation of Canadian, European and South American judicial actors (especially judges and crown prosecutors). She is currently undertaking research on leadership in times of crisis and on the concept of failure. Her work explores social and normative innovation at the crossroads of the legal and non-legal knowledge produced by law and by the social sciences. This is an approach that Professor Garcia considers essential for understanding the development of standards in a multicultural, pluralistic and diverse world. She is currently the Co-Director of the uOttawa Leadership Academy.

Richard Dubé is a Full Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. His primary areas of interest are in the sociology of law. His current research focuses on reform of the criminal justice system, its fundamental principles and objectives, modern theories of punishment, and the conditions necessary for the emergence of innovative ideas in the field of criminal justice. His work has been the subject of several publications, notably in the journals Les Cahiers de droit, Droit et Société, Champ pénal and Déviance et Société. He has also co-edited a book on the topic of sentencing entitled Modern Criminal Rationality: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Explorations, published in 2013 by the University of Ottawa Press. He is currently developing a sociological theory of dysfunctional social systems and exploring the ontological experience of compassion in sentencing from a phenomenological approach.

Mr. Andrew Kuntze works as the Research Communications Strategist at the Research Office of the Faculty of Law. He collaborates with researchers in law to promote the visibility of their work, developing innovative textual and visual narratives to support knowledge mobilization. Committed to telling stories that bring research to life, Andrew oversees research award nomination files, as well as all research-related communications, including knowledge dissemination campaigns on social media networks. Andrew has been trained in delivering the ontological leadership course material and has served as a part-time professor in the Common Law Section, teaching the course "Law, Life, and Leadership " to students. Andrew holds a Master’s degree in English Language and Literature.