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
Andrew PotterInterim DirectorAssociate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Max Bell School of Public PolicyFormer 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 |
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Jennifer WelshDirector (January 2025)Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance & Security, McGill UniversityCo-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 |
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Nathalie DuchesnayPolicy Lab Coordinator, Max Bell School of Public PolicyCourse lecturer, MBA program at the Desautels Faculty of Management President, NextStep Services Nathalie.Duchesnay [at] mcgill.ca |
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Pearl EliadisAssociate Professor (Professional), Faculty of Law, McGill UniversityOver 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 |
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Leslie FierroSydney Duder Professor in Program Evaluation, Max Bell School of Public PolicyFormerly 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 KassenDirector, Trottier Institute of Science and Public Policy, McGill UniversityFull Professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, and in the Max Bell School of Public Policy Rees.Kassen [at] mcgill.ca |
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Nicholas KingAssociate professor in Biomedical Ethics, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill Universitynicholas.king [at] mcgill.ca |
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Taylor OwenBeaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics, and Communications, Max Bell School of Public PolicyPublic 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 PolicyMember 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 |
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Vincent RigbySlater Family Professor of Practice, Max Bell School of Public PolicyFormer National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister vincent.rigby [at] mcgill.ca |
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Daniel Weinstock (on sabbatical)Full Professor and Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, Faculties of Law and of Arts, McGill UniversityPreviously 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-CuadradoAssociate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill UniversityFormer Visiting Scholar at the Grupo de Analisis para del Desarrollo (GRADE). |
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Neil BouwerProfessor of Practice, Max Bell School of Public PolicyAssistant Deputy Minister, Government of Canada |
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Aengus BridgmanAssistant Professor (Research) at McGill UniversityWork with survey, census, and social/traditional media data with an additional interest in data science, machine learning, natural language processing and computational social science |
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Dirk DruetAffiliate Researcher, Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill UniversityNon-Resident Fellow, Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations of the International Peace Institute
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Mayssun El-AttarFaculty Lecturer, Department of Economics, McGill University |
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Debbie Field & David KraftCoordinator, Coalition for Healthy School FoodAssociate Member, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Toronto Metropolitan University |
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Miled HillFormer Chief of Staff with nearly 10 years of political experience in the Trudeau Government |
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Louis LevesqueCEO of Finance MontrealFormer 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 |
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Emilie NicolasAnthropologist, columnist for Le Devoir and The Montreal Gazette. |
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Cheryl OatesPrincipal at gt&coPreviously Executive Director, Communications and Planning, Office of the Premier of Alberta |
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Kevin PageCanada’s first Parliamentary Budget OfficerPresident and CEO of the Institute of Fiscal Studies & Democracy, University of OttawaOver 25 years of experience in the Canadian federal public service including Finance Canada, the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office |
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Ian Scott23-24 McConnell Professor of PracticeExpert on policy and regulation in broadcasting and telecommunications |
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David ShribmanJournalistAwarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his coverage of U.S. politics Ten years as the Washington Bureau Chief of The Boston Globe |
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Cindy SkrzyckiSenior Lecturer, Department of English, University of PittsburghCorrespondent, GlobalPostFormer staff of the Washington Post |
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Erin StrumpfAssociate Professor, Department of Economics and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University |
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Narendra SubramanianProfessor of Political Science, McGill University |
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Brian ToppPartner, KTG Public AffairsFormer Chief of Staff to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley Deputy Chief of Staff to Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow Executive Director of ACTRA Toronto |
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Emily Paddon RhoadsJ.W. McConnell Visiting ScholarFormer 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.” |