Michel Mersereau

Michel Mersereau’s professional background, community engagement and research program are located in the domains of regulatory policy concerning telecommunications markets, network infrastructure and engineering, as well as multi-level digital equity governance. His research focuses on the informational characteristics of technology governance and the political economy of telecommunications policy. He was formerly a senior management and policy consultant for the City of Toronto leading research and policy planning to support the city’s ConnectTO program, telecommunications regulatory planning, digital equity strategy, universal free public WiFi planning, and the city’s Indigenous Data Governance framework. He is a member of CFSC’s Scientific Advisory Committee evaluating subsidized broadband programs on behalf of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s (ISED). His research has informed policy interventions at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the City of Toronto. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Community Informatics.

He currently holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information, and runs the broadband regulatory insights project Broadband Infrastructure Market Insights