Arthur J. Carty, (born 12 September 1940), is a

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academic and former National Science Advisor to the Government of Canada. Carty was the inaugural director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology at the

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, special advisor to the President on international science and technology collaboration and research professor in the department of chemistry. From 2004-08, he served as Canada's first national science advisor to the prime minister and to the

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. Prior to his appointment as national science advisor, he was president of the National Research Council, Canada's leading knowledge and innovation organization, for ten years (1994-2004). He earned a PhD in

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from the

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. Before joining NRC in 1994, he spent two years at

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and 27 years at the University of Waterloo where he was successively professor of chemistry, director of the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry, a pioneering joint graduate program, chair of the chemistry department and dean of research. Carty maintains an active interest in research in organometallic chemistry and new materials. He has over 300 publications in peer reviewed journals and five patents to his credit. He is a former president of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, an honorary fellow of the

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and of the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences and a fellow of the

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* Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB) and its successor CNSC * Council of the Canadian Space Agency * Boards of Genome Canada * MITACS * The Stroke Network * Networks of Centre of Excellence (NCE) and of

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nd National Defense Research * Founding Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Light Source (CLS; 1999-2008) * Council of Japan's Science and Technology Forum in Society * International Advisory Boards of the APEC Centre for Technology Foresight and the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) * Inaugural Canadian co-chair of the Joint S and T Cooperation Committee for the Canada-India science and technology agreement * Member of the Advisory Board of Bilcare Global Clinical Services based in

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* Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for

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* Chairman of the Board of Innovative Materials Technologies (IMT) * Member of the Board of Governors of

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