Joe Roberts is veteran political strategist in both the US and Canada, Board Chair of JSpaceCanada, the leading voice of progressive Canadian Jewry, and Chair of Meretz Canada. He leads the Centre for Canadian Progress, a progressive public policy think tank focused on advancing Canadian society. Roberts spent 10 years in executive positions in the Jewish Federation system and calls Cobourg, Ontario home. He has completed studies at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.