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Max Bell School Faculty 2024-25

The Max Bell School’s accomplished and well-rounded MPP teaching team is committed to helping shape and prepare the next generation of policy leaders. Here are some of the academics teaching public policy theory, and practitioners demonstrating how to put core skills into practice

Core Faculty and Leadership

Jennifer Welsh

Director, Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance & Security, McGill University

Co-founder of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law & Armed Conflict

Former special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the responsibility to protect

Jennifer.Welsh [at] mcgill.ca

Andrew Potter

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Max Bell School of Public Policy

Former editor in chief of the Ottawa Citizen and public affairs columnist for Maclean's Magazine

Author of The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves, and the co-author, with Joseph Heath, of the best-selling book The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't be Jammed

Andrew2.Potter [at] mcgill.ca

Nathalie Duchesnay

Policy Lab Coordinator, Max Bell School of Public Policy

Course lecturer, MBA program at the Desautels Faculty of Management

President, NextStep Services

Nathalie.Duchesnay [at] mcgill.ca

Pearl Eliadis

Associate Professor (Professional), Faculty of Law, McGill University

Over 20 years of experience in democratic governance and public policy; has been retained by clients including the UN, the European Commission and the OSCE in China, Ethiopia, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan and Timor-Leste

Pearl.Eliadis [at] mcgill.ca

Leslie Fierro

Sydney Duder Professor in Program Evaluation, Max Bell School of Public Policy

Formerly worked at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Deloitte Consulting LLP, Claremont Graduate University, and the International Development Research Centre.

Co Editor-in-Chief of New Directions for Evaluation

Leslie.Fierro [at] mcgill.ca

Rees Kassen

Director, Trottier Institute of Science and Public Policy, McGill University

Full Professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, and in the Max Bell School of Public Policy

Rees.Kassen [at] mcgill.ca

Nicholas King

Associate professor in Biomedical Ethics, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University

nicholas.king [at] mcgill.ca

Taylor Owen

Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics, and Communications, Max Bell School of Public Policy

Public Policy Forum Fellow and the 2016 Public Policy Forum Emerging Leader

Author of Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State, and The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley Reengineered Journalism

Taylor.Owen [at] mcgill.ca

Christopher Ragan (on sabbatical)

Economics professor and Founding Director, Max Bell School of Public Policy

Member of Finance Minister’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth; Former Special Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Canada; former Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at Finance Canada

Christopher.Ragan [at] mcgill.ca

Vincent Rigby

Slater Family Professor of Practice, Max Bell School of Public Policy

Former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister

vincent.rigby [at] mcgill.ca

Daniel Weinstock (on sabbatical)

Full Professor and Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, Faculties of Law and of Arts, McGill University

Previously a Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, Daniel Weinstock, C.M. held the Canadian Research Chair on Ethics and Political Philosophy. He was also the director of the Research Centre on Ethics at Université de Montréal (CRÉUM) for many years.

Daniel.Weinstock2 [at] mcgill.ca

MPP Teaching Faculty (2024-25)

	Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University Former Visiting Scholar at the Grupo de Analisis para del Desarrollo (GRADE).
	Ken Boessenkool Campaign Manager for Rajan Sawhney, 2020-2021 J.W. McConnell Professor of Practice Research Fellow at the CD Howe Institute, contributor to The Line and President and founder of Sidicus Consulting Ltd
	Neil Bouwer Professor of Practice, Max Bell School of Public Policy Assistant Deputy Minister, Government of Canada
	Aengus Bridgman Assistant Professor (Research) at McGill University Work with survey, census, and social/traditional media data with an additional interest in data science, machine learning, natural language processing and computational social science
	Abdulla Daoud Executive Director of The Refugee Centre
	Laura Dawson Principal Program Manager (Americas). Amazon Web Services Institute, Amazon Web Services Former senior advisor on economic affairs at the United States Embassy in Ottawa Fellow at the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute
	Dirk Druet Affiliate Researcher, Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill University Non-Resident Fellow, Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations of the International Peace Institute
	Mayssun El-Attar Faculty Lecturer, Department of Economics, McGill University
	Debbie Field & David Kraft Coordinator, Coalition for Healthy School Food Associate Member, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Toronto Metropolitan University
	Marc Fortin Trottier Institute for Science and Policy Professor of Practice Former Vice-President, Research Grants and Scholarships, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
	Miled Hill Former Chief of Staff with nearly 10 years of political experience in the Trudeau Government
	Louis Levesque CEO of Finance Montreal Former Deputy Minister of Transport Canada Over 30 years of experience in the public service with senior roles at Finance Canada, Privy Council Office, and International Trade
	Jesse McCormick Senior VP, Research, Innovation and Legal Affairs for the First Nations Major Projects Coalition
	Emilie Nicolas Anthropologist, columnist for Le Devoir and The Montreal Gazette.
	Cheryl Oates Principal at gt&co Previously Executive Director, Communications and Planning, Office of the Premier of Alberta
	Emily Paddon Rhoads J.W. McConnell Visiting Scholar Former associate faculty member at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and research collaborator on the European Research Council-funded interdisciplinary project, “Individualization of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law, and Politics of Armed Conflict.”
	Pierre Pyun Vice President, Government and Industry Affairs, Bombardier
	Kevin Page Canada’s first Parliamentary Budget Officer President and CEO of the Institute of Fiscal Studies & Democracy, University of Ottawa Over 25 years of experience in the Canadian federal public service including Finance Canada, the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office
	Ian Scott 23-24 McConnell Professor of Practice Expert on policy and regulation in broadcasting and telecommunications
	Sonja Solomun Assistant Professor (Research); Deputy Director, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
	David Shribman Journalist Awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his coverage of U.S. politics Ten years as the Washington Bureau Chief of The Boston Globe
	Cindy Skrzycki Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh Correspondent, GlobalPost Former staff of the Washington Post
	Alex Steinhouse Counsel, Fasken LLP Alex Steinhouse is Counsel at Fasken LLP’s Montreal office where he practices in the areas of Government Relations, Political Law, Indigenous Legal Matters, and Intellectual Property. Alex draws on his extensive public and private sector experience at the intersection of law, public policy, and politics to build and protect reputations while guiding organizations through change.
	Erin Strumpf Associate Professor, Department of Economics and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
	Narendra Subramanian Professor of Political Science, McGill University
	Brian Topp Partner, KTG Public Affairs Former Chief of Staff to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley Deputy Chief of Staff to Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow Executive Director of ACTRA Toronto