Daniel Tsai
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Daniel is a lawyer, business executive, law and business professor, columnist, editor and founder of ConsumerRights.ca, and the author of two textbooks: Law, Technology and Culture; and the Business of Social Media and Entertainment (Top Hat Publishing). Daniel is NewsTalk's Business, Law & Technology Expert on Canadian national radio (Bell Media / iHeart Radio) and appears frequently on television, social media, and in print.
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- Business Law
- Government & Policy
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Daniel is an award winning teacher with a teaching certificate from the University of Cambridge. Daniel is a visiting lecturer at Cornell University and McGill University, and was adjunct faculty at the University of Toronto. Daniel is a Senior Fellow at the CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance at McGill University (Law School and Desautels Faculty of Management).
Daniel is a former General Counsel for a publicly traded healthcare company and has worked with a number of publicly traded national and multinational companies and entrepreneurs.
As a columnist, Daniel has written for the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star, and is cited and consulted by the BBC, CTV, Reuters, Newsweek, Yahoo News, Al Jazeera, S&P Global, Ming Pao (Chinese), ARTE (France & Germany), CBC, Radio Canada (French), Global News, CP24 News, Bell Media, National Post, Canadian Press, Corus, ABC (Australia) and other international news media on business, law, technology, public policy, and consumer issues.
Daniel has won the JSD Tory Writing Award for Legal Writing and Research, the BB Dubienski Memorial Scholarship, and the Nathanson Fellowship at the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime & Corruption at Osgoode Hall Law School.
As a senior policy advisor in the Canadian government recruited under the Recruiting Policy Leaders (RPL) Program, Daniel wrote new Canadian laws and has advised senior government officials and Canadian Parliamentarians, MPs and Senators, on public policy and law reform.
With MBA degrees from Cornell University and Queen's University, and JD and LLM degrees in law (specializing in tax law and technology law), Daniel's research interests include technology law, intellectual property, tax, artificial intelligence, marketing, retail, business ethics, behavioral economics, psychology, political science, and strategy.
Daniel has studied French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, German and Chinese, scoring in the top decile on Harvard's Modern Languages Aptitude Test (MLAT).
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Smith School of Business | Queen's University
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