List of presidents of the National Research Council of Canada

The National Research Council of Canada is a major federal research institution in Canada, founded in 1916 as the Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Originally a loose federation of scientific experts advising the government, it was given an executive body in 1928 (when the first President was appointed) and received funds to establish a laboratory in the same year, which opened in 1932.

Presidents

Name	Term	Scientific background
Henry Marshall Tory	1924-1935	mathematics
A.G.L. McNaughton	1935-1939	civil engineering
C.J. Mackenzie	1939-1952	civil engineering
E.W.R. Steacie	1952-1962	physical chemistry
Bristow Guy Ballard[1]	1962-1967	electrical engineering
W.G. Schneider[2]	1967-1980	pure chemistry
J. Larkin Kerwin	1980-1989	physics
Pierre O. Perron[3]	1989-1994	metallurgy
Arthur Carty	1994-2004	inorganic chemistry
Michael Raymont[4]	2004-2005 (acting)	chemistry
Pierre Coulombe[5]	2005-2010	medicine
John R. McDougall[6]	2010-2016	petroleum engineering
Iain Stewart[7]	2016-2020	political science and marine policy
Mitch Davies[8]	2021–Present