Kent Aitken
Director, Digital Academy Associate Faculty
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKent Aitken is a public sector innovation and digital governance leader with 12 years of experience shaping policy, engagement, and learning across the Government of Canada and international organizations. As Director of the Digital Academy at the Canada School of Public Service, he designs partnerships and curricula that translate digital-era governance research into practical capability-building for public servants. His background includes analytic roles at the OECD and strategic fellowships with the Public Policy Forum, giving him a rare blend of comparative public governance research and hands-on program delivery. Kent’s career has focused on open government, public participation, and stakeholder engagement, often bridging policy, technology, and organizational change. He brings interdisciplinary training in environmental economics, political science, and business administration, and an appetite for translating complex governance ideas into usable public-sector practice. Based in Ottawa, he is known for turning cross-sector research into tangible learning and engagement programs that advance digital government.
12 years of coding experience
B.B.A., Business Administration, Accounting, B.B.A., Business Administration, Accounting at St. Francis Xavier UniversityB.A., Political Science, Economics, B.A., Political Science, Economics at University of Prince Edward IslandMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Environmental Economics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Environmental Economics at University of London
Github Skills (1)
open-government6
Github contributions (5)
kentdaitken/Open-Government
Feb 2014 - Jul 2019
Contributions:65 commits, 22 pushes in 5 years 6 months
thoughtsgovernmentlinksopen-government
CSPS-EFPC-DAAN/Resources
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:13 pushes in 10 months
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