Director Performance, Analytics and Evaluation, Canada Foundation for Innovation
Laura Hillier is the Director of Performance, Analytics and Evaluation at the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). She leads a team responsible for monitoring corporate performance and assessing the outcomes and impacts of the investments in research infrastructure made by the CFI. Laura has a keen interest in methodologies for research impact assessment that provide relevant and useful information while not disadvantaging any type or area of research. She ensures that evaluation evidence is translated into usable products for uptake into program and policy design. Laura works collaboratively with others in the Science & Technology community to ensure the team’s work meets the needs of the CFI and its stakeholders.
Laura holds a BSc in biology, an MSc in epidemiology and the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation. She has worked in research evaluation at three different funding organizations over the past 10+ years. Laura brings to her work in research performance and impact assessment past experience working across the different areas of health research – basic biomedical research, clinical research, health services research as well as population health research.
