David Wayne Stewart is the chair of the Canadian Studies Program's External Advisory Board. He is also a longtime board member and former “chairmoose” at the Digital Moose Lounge, an association of Canadians in Silicon Valley. Since 2013, he has consulted on a range of Canada-U.S. innovation projects for clients such as the Kitchener-Waterloo Region, the University of Saskatchewan, Expansion Québec and the Association of University Research Parks Canada. From 2007 to 2012, he served as an academic relations officer with the Consulate General of Canada in Palo Alto. Previously, he was the executive director of International House, a nonprofit in Charlotte, North Carolina, and he founded Charlotte’s first community immigration law clinic inside of International House in 2002.
Stewart began his career as a commercial lawyer in Toronto and Boston and spent three years at a tech startup in Massachusetts. He holds a BA in history and an LLB from McGill University in Montreal, and an MA in intercultural relations from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Bar in Ontario and Massachusetts and a member of the C100, an association of Canadian-born tech investors in Silicon Valley. His memoir, True North Down South: Tales of a Professional Canadian in America, was published in 2022.
