Alexandre Bourque-Viens is an S&T policy advisor at Environment Canada (EC) where he has been involved in coordinating the emergence of the federal Open Government Science initiative, and definition of both the federal Open Science commitment and the associated implementation plan under EC’s role as Open Science champion on behalf of science-based departments and agencies. Alexandre was a member of the OECD Making Open Science a Reality report Steering Group. His current interests are assessments of the impacts of science, achieving the benefits of open science, and helping deal with complex problems leveraging networked approaches.