Daniel F. Muzyka is a Professor Emeritus of Management as well as a Dean Emeritus a
The University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business
He is th
former President and Chief Executive Officer
of The Conference Board of Canada. He is also former Chair of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He was previously the Dean and the RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of British Columbia's

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. Prior to 1999, Muzyka taught and held senior administrative positions at a number of universities and institutions, including the

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, INSEAD,

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(University of Pennsylvania) and

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. Muzyka has extensive experience in academics, business, and public policy and has participated on a number of boards of companies, venture capital funds, as well as not-for-profit and government organizations and committees. He worked in industry with

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in finance and strategy and was a strategy consultant with Braxton Associates. In addition, he has been a board member and consultant to several other business and not-for-profit organizations, including Vice Chair and a public director of the

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(IIROC), the

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(Past Chair), Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC)
New Ventures B.C.
and th
European Venture Capital Association
Muzyka chaired NSERC's Expert Advisory Committee on Partnerships and Innovation. Muzyka currently serves or has served on various government councils, including task forces in Europe and North America. In British Columbia, he has served on the B.C. Competition Council, and the B.C. Premier's Technology Council, among others. Muzyka holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from

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, an MBA with concentration in Strategic Planning from the

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, and a BA with Honours in Physics and Astronomy from

. He has been awarded the National Order of Merit ( Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite) by the

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. In 2021, as Acting CEO of the Royal British Columbia Museum, Muzyka made the controversial decision to close the third floor galleries of the museum to the public with the stated aim of removing some of the permanent exhibits, offering 'decolonization' as the justification. The move has since been panned by many critics, as having been made without consulting the public and as an act of historical

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, along with the hiding and erasure of history.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Muzyka, Daniel University of British Columbia faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Williams College alumni Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni Harvard Business School alumni