Instructor

Dr Naresh Singh is a Professor of Government and Public Policy, Director of the Centre for Complexity Economics, Applied Spirituality and Public Policy and Co-Director of the Centre for Legal Empowerment of the Poor. He is a former DG and acting ADM in the Federal Government of Canada. On the corporate side he served as sustainability adviser to the Toronto Centre on Financial Leadership, Senior VP for Global Development Solutions Canada, and ESG Advisor for Moneymoov.

Professor Singh was a visiting scholar at several universities, including Boston, Harvard, Fordham, McGill, Waterloo and Guelph and University of Ottawa. He has been a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Pan American Health Organization, the International Labour Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization. He is widely published. Two of his recently co-edited books are Applied Spirituality and Sustainable Development Policy (Emerald UK 2024) and most recently Handbook of Global Philosophies on AI Ethics (Routledge 2025)