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Max Bell School Faculty 2026-27

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, Max Bell School of Public Policy; Distinguished James McGill Professor, 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
	Manuel Balán Associate Director, Programs, Max Bell School of Public Policy Academic Lead, Global Engagement, Provost Office, McGill University Strategic Advisor to the Dean, Faculty of Arts, McGill University Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and the Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID), McGill University manuel.balan [at] mcgill.ca
	Aengus Bridgman Lead, Media Ecosystem Observatory, Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy Assistant Professor (Research), Max Bell School of Public Policy aengus.bridgman [at] mcgill.ca
	Talita Dias Associate Professor (Research), Max Bell School of Public Policy talita.diasbobyn [at] mcgill.ca
	Nathalie Duchesnay Policy Lab Instructor, Max Bell School of Public Policy Associate, Desautels Faculty of Management President, NextStep Services Nathalie.Duchesnay [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
	Anna Jahn Executive Director, Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy Associate Professor (Research), Max Bell School of Public Policy anna.jahn [at] mcgill.ca
	Rees Kassen (on secondment) Academic Director, McGill Sustainability Park; Director, Trottier Institute of Science and Public Policy 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 Director, Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy, McGill University 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 Director, the Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy Taylor.Owen [at] mcgill.ca
	Andrew Potter Associate Professor, 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
	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 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 Program Instructors (2026-27)

	Ken Boessenkool Partner and co-founder, Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips Adjunct Professor Campaign Manager for Rajan Sawhney, 2020-2021 J.W. McConnell Professor of Practice
	Neil Bouwer Professor of Practice, Max Bell School of Public Policy Assistant Deputy Minister, Government of Canada
	Ricardo Chejfec Research Director, Institute for Research on Public Policy
	Abdulla Daoud Executive Director of The Refugee Centre Adjunct Professor
	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
	Faizel Gulamhussein
	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
	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
	Béatrice Libchaber Senior Research Professional - Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Analysis Group
	Michael McAdoo Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
	Jesse McCormick Senior Counsel at Pape Salter Teillet LLP; Senior Advisor at Mokwateh Adjunct Professor
	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 Adjunct Professor
	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
	Derek Ruths
	Francisco Javier Varela Sandoval Visiting Professor, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University
	Miguel Ángel Santos Navarrete Dean, School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey Visiting Lecturer, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
	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
	Sonja Solomun Assistant Professor (Research) Deputy Director, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
	Zachary Spicer Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University
	Jonathan Thompson Crown Counsel with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada in Ottawa
	Matthew Wildcat
	Gisèle Yasmeen Crown Counsel with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada in Ottawa