Former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay is taking the reins as president and CEO of the western-Canada focused think-tank the Canada West Foundation.

She replaces Dylan Jones, who led the Calgary-based think tank for three years until he joined the public service as Deputy Minister of Western Economic Diversification this summer.

Hall Findlay was previously on a fellowship with the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, and was head of legal affairs at the mobile payment joint-venture company EnStream.

Findlay won a Toronto Willowdale byelection in 2008, although lost her seat in 2011 to Conservative Chungsen Leung.

Hall Findlay was a contender the for Liberal party leadership in both 2006 and 2013.