Dr. Jorgensen (Ph.D., Political Science, McGill University) was appointed to the redesigned portfolio as Associate Provost (Faculty Affairs & Resource Allocation) effective 1 September 2010. This position includes responsibility for overseeing academic planning and management of budget and compact processes, advising the Provost on aggregate resource allocations to faculties and administrative units, the allocating of CRCs and internal James McGIll/William Dawson awards and associated stipends, and the coordinating of CFI dossiers with the Office of VP-RIR.
He is a professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management specializing in Strategy and Organization. He has served McGill in several capacities including Director of the McGill Centre for Strategy Studies in Organizations, Associate Dean-Academic, Interim-Dean of the Faculty of Management, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Management, and McGill’s contact manager for the Universitas 21 network.
He has also served as strategy adviser at the World Bank, helping coordinate the World Bank Institute's training programs for client countries and bank staff. Earlier, he directed the McGill Economic Policy Management project (EPM), which trained policy advisors from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe and helped establish similar EPM masters programs at Makerere University (Uganda) and the University of Ghana with support from bilateral, multilateral and regional development agencies.
His research interests include organizational responses to globalization, strategy and governance, and organizational capacity building in emerging economies. He is particularly interested in capacity building and the transferability of western management know-how to developing and transitional economies. He earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of North Carolina.
He has directed or co-directed a dozen doctoral students to completion and has helped supervise a number of other PhD students, who now hold positions at universities in Canada, the United States, Europe, China, and Pakistan.