Dr Ronald Bond has been appointed to the chair of the advisory board for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). Bond is provost and VP academic at the Univ of Calgary and a member of the steering committee for the faculty bargaining project of the Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO). He has a PhD in renaissance literature from the Univ of Toronto. The CRKN advisory board is composed of external stakeholders, providing advice on strategic and development issues to the board of directors, of which the advisory board chair is a voting member. The CRKN is part of the Networks of Centres of Excellence.