Professor, School of Industrial Relations, Université de Montréal and BMO Chair in Diversity and Governance

PhD, CHRP (Fellow)

Tania Saba is the founder and holder of the BMO Chair in Diversity and Governance, as well as a full professor with the School of Industrial Relations at the Université de Montréal. She is an expert on issues related to diversity management, workforce aging, intergenerational value differences, work organization transformations and future skills. Her publications have won numerous awards. She collaborates on major research projects with public and private organizations on issues of employment integration and adaptation of disadvantaged groups.

In 2021, the Canadian Industrial Relations Association presented her with the Gérard Dion Award in recognition for her distinguished achievements in the field. In 2024, she was one of the Canadian delegates who took part in Women20, a group set up by the G20 to advise on steps toward the economic empowerment of women.

She chairs the Quebec and Francophone Communities of Canada chapter of the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, led by the Diversity Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University, and sits on the WEKH advisory committee. She is also a founding member of the Observatoire sur la santé et le mieux-être au travail as well as the equity, diversity and inclusion DEI lead on the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies executive committee.

She serves on the steering committee for the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la justice intersectionnelle, la décolonisation et l’équité and is affiliated with the Future Skills Centre, IVADO, the Montreal Centre for International Studies and the Centre interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail.