extensively on this topic. He chaired an Advisory Panel on Canada's International Education Strategy in 2011–12. One of the key recommendations was to double the number of international students in Canada by 2022. The Government of Canada has endorsed this key recommendation and adopted its International Education Strategy in 2014. The goal of doubling international students in Canada to over 450,000 was surpassed five years earlier in 2017. He was appointed to Canada's Science and Technology Innovation Council in 2012. He served as the founding chair of HealthForce Ontario Marketing and Recruitment Agency, a crown corporation set up to build and maintain the province's health human resources capacity by supporting the government's strategic direction of health workforce planning from 2007 to 2010. International engagement Chakma has served as chair of the board of directors of a Canada-based development organization of long standing the World University Services of Canada (WUSC) from 2011 to 2015. He also served on the board of trustees of the Asian University for Women, an international liberal arts university located in Chittagong, Bangladesh from 2012 to 2015 as vice-chair and acting chair. Controversy While he was dean of engineering at the University of Regina in 1998, Chakma hired Lana Nguyen as a professor of systems software engineering. Chakma said in his recommendation that "Nguyen's candidacy has been the fruit of our relentless proactive efforts in identifying potential women faculty members." Nguyen taught at Regina for two years before students and faculty, suspicious on account of Nguyen's apparent lack of knowledge, discovered that she had defrauded the University by claiming her ex-husband's doctoral degree as her own. On March 27, 2015, Chakma came under criticism after reportedly earning $967,000 in salary and benefits in 2014, a year in which class sizes grew as Western administrators squeezed faculty, shrunk staffing and left empty vacated positions. Chakma's pay was a result of "double-dipping," allowing him to collect a second full salary for choosing to work during his paid administrative leave. On March 30, 2015, Member of Provincial Parliament for London-West, Peggy Sattler asked in the Provincial Parliament question period whether the government would prohibit university boards of governors from negotiating similar double payouts to university presidents. Training, Colleges and Universities Minister Reza Moridi replied that a bill had been passed the previous year allowing public sector executive compensation to be capped, but that Chakma's contract was signed before this legislation