Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher of science with a practice in inclusive innovation at the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship and big ideas. He teaches in the Organizational Studies area at the Schulich School of Business, where he recently completed three years as Special Advisor on Decolonization, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI) in the Office of the Dean and remains as the Academic Program Director of the Schulich Business Excellence Academy (SBEA), a virtual summer program that introduces business education to senior Ontario high school students.

A former Economist and Investment Attraction Lead for the Province of Ontario, he was recruited to be the Inaugural Technical Advisor in Innovation, Science and Competitiveness to the President of the Republic of Haïti (2017 - 2019), and he is currently the Adjunct Faculty Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Fellow at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), and Faculty Associate for the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora.

Jean-Jacques holds a B.A. in Law and Philosophy from Carleton University, MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University, and PhD in Philosophy of Science from the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Explainability & Trust in AI Systems at the Lassonde School of Engineering.