Professor Mihaela Ulieru is President of the IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy, aiming to capitalize on her achievements as the Canada Research Chair in Adaptive Information Infrastructures for the eSociety, which she held for five years beginning in 2005. In 2007, she was appointed to the Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Canada by the Minister of Industry to advise the government and provide foresight on innovation issues related to the ICT impact on Canada's economic development and social well-being against international standards of excellence.

Ulieru was appointed to the Science and Engineering Research Council of Singapore, and was an appointed Expert in ICT-Enabled Innovation at the Executive Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation of Romania, and was Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. As a tenured professor at the University of New Brunswick, she founded the Adaptive Risk Management Laboratory with Canada Foundation for Innovation sponsorship. She led several large-scale projects funded by NSERC, DRDC, CANARIE and NBIF targeting the management of complex situations through more organic ways of governance. She is a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Data Driven Development.

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