Jennifer Irish is Principal of Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory and leads its information integrity practice, as well as work to advance civilian and civic resilience. She is concurrently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa (Telfer School of Management), and serves as Program Director of its security and intelligence leadership programming. She is the founding director of the University’s Information Integrity Lab, created to advance the understanding of information distortion activities.
She brings to these positions 35 years+ of prior leadership experience as an accomplished diplomat and senior executive in the Canadian government – in international and national security, geostrategic analysis, trade policy and foreign affairs (with 5 overseas postings in the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and the United Nations). She further honed her expertise leading intelligence assessment and geostrategic analysis as Director General of the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre and as Director of Operations at the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat in the Privy Council Office, providing strategic intelligence to the Prime Minister, National Security and Intelligence Advisor and senior decision-makers.
She is the recipient of Canada’s Public Service Award of Excellence (for policy innovation) and has served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian International Council, and Canadian Intelligence Network.