Presented by: Martha Wallace

Martha Wallace joined the University of Calgary in December 2022 as the Director of Research Security in the Office of the Vice President of Research.  Martha came to the University with over 20 years of federal and provincial public service experience. She has worked with senior leaders in academia, government, and industry to develop innovation and research security policy and programs including developing the Safeguarding your Research Portal.

Martha was recently featured in CSIS Research Security Quarterly Expert Summer 2023 edition, wherein she comments on how connecting with people from across the University has been key to building awareness about safeguarding research.

In her present role, Martha has been an instrumental leader in building a robust Research Security posture for UCalgary.  She has also led efforts to build Alberta and Team Canada approaches to sharing best practises and building up safeguarding research capacities.

Martha was the first female leader hired across Canada in this sector and quickly established the Research Security Division (RSD).  RSD works with the campus community to support researchers in complying with new federal and international research security requirements and ensures that they are able to establish transparent, secure and mutually beneficial collaborations and partnerships.  RSD is a one stop shop for research security that provide identification and mitigation of risks, open-source intelligence expertise, guidance on sanctions and export controls and assistance in navigating federal, provincial and international research security requirements.

Martha has a BA (Honours) from Bishop’s University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Queen’s University.