Jessie Kubes

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• Provides strategic leadership and leads initiatives to foster innovation, entrepreneurship, and industry partnerships to drive regional economic growth by leveraging university research, supporting commercialization efforts, and facilitating collaboration between academia, government, and the private sector.
• Drive initiatives that position Queen’s as an anchor institution for economic development in Kingston and beyond, working across campus and with regional institutions to position Queen’s as a hub for economic innovation, drawing inspiration from global best practices and successful models.
• As part of the VPR portfolio, facilitates and supports opportunities to fund and attract investment to Queen's from public and private sources to support university-based innovation and regional economic initiatives.