Notable appointment - Management

Associate Professor Steve Maguire (Strategy and Organization) has been named to the Government of Canada's Chemicals Management Plan Challenge Advisory Panel. This group was formed in late 2007 to provide Health Canada and Environment Canada with advice in screening approximately 200 high priority substances for the health and environmental risks they may pose (example: Bisphenol A, used in some plastic baby bottles).

Dr. Maguire was nominated and selected for this panel by deputy ministers of Health Canada and Environment Canada as a result of his recognized expertise on the precautionary principle (an evaluation of activities or products that may pose health or environmental risks), chemicals policy and chemical risk management. His research has appeared in a range of leading international journals and books, and his work on society's experience with the insecticide DDT was awarded the Academy of Management's "Organization and Natural Environment (ONE)" Best Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2001. More recently, Dr. Maguire was named an International Visiting Fellow of the UK's Advanced Institute of Management, a multi-council initiative of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), in 2006 and awarded an Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellowship from the University of Melbourne in 2007.