Christian Sylvain has been appointed director of corporate policy and planning for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Sylvain was previously director of government relations and public affairs at the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and worked as a consultant and researcher in the areas of science policy and research evaluation. Sylvain has a degrees in biological sciences from the Univ of Montreal and information studies from McGill Univ. He pursued graduate studies in science and technology dynamics at the Univ of Amsterdam and doctoral work at the Univ of Western Ontario in information policy….