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
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Christopher RaganEconomics professor and 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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Nathalie DuchesnayFaculty Lecturer, Max Bell School of Public PolicyPolicy 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 at the Max Bell SchoolFormerly 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 |
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Taylor Owen (on sabbatical)Beaverbrook 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 |
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Andrew PotterAssociate 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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Daniel WeinstockFull 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 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 |
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Jennifer WelshCanada 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 |
MPP Teaching Faculty (2022-23)
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Nii AddyAssistant Professor, Institute for the Study of International DevelopmentFormer consultant and researcher for organizations including the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the World Bank, the Hewlett Foundation, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and ICF International.
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Anne AndermannAssociate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill UniversityFounding director of the CLEAR Collaboration, that aims to help frontline health workers address the underlying social causes of poor health through a combination of direct patient care, referral and advocacy for larger social change.
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Ken BoessenkoolCampaign Manager for Rajan Sawhney, 2020-2021 J.W. McConnell Professor of PracticeResearch Fellow at the CD Howe Institute, contributor to The Line and President and founder of Sidicus Consulting Ltd
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Russell CopemanFormer Mayor of the Borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-GrâceFourteen year tenure in the National Assembly, including Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Philippe Couillard
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Laura DawsonPrincipal Program Manager (Americas). Amazon Web Services Institute, Amazon Web ServicesFormer senior advisor on economic affairs at the United States Embassy in Ottawa Fellow at the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute
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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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Jayne EngleDirector, Cities & Places Portfolio at the McConnell FoundationAdjunct Professor of Urban Planning, McGill UniversityCo-Director, Participatory Canada/part of Participatory City GlobalCo-editor/co-author of a new book: Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities
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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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Yolande JamesAttorneyFormer Member of the National Assembly of Quebec; former Minister of Families
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Julian Vikan KaraguesianDirector for Research, Economic Policy, Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)Former Special Advisor, International Trade and Finance Branch, Finance CanadaCourse Lecturer, Economics, McGill University |
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Geoffrey KelleyNegotiator between Quebec government and Mohawk community of KahnawakeMember, Quebec National Assembly (1994-2018)Minister responsible for Native Affairs, 2005-2007, 2011-2012, 2014-2018. Negotiator between the Quebec government and the Mohawk community of Kahnawake.
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Tasha KheiriddinMedia commentator and political analyst2004 Ontario Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation Former Vice-President of the Montreal Economic Institute; Former Director for Quebec of the Fraser Institute
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Nicholas King (on sabbatical)Associate professor in Biomedical Ethics, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University
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Sonia LaszloAssociate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill UniversityMember of the Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Organizations (CIRANO) and the Grupo de Analysis para el Desarrollo (GRADE).
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Michael McAdooPartner & Director, Global Trade and Investment, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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Vrinda NarainPolicy Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill UniversityFormer Associate Dean, Academic, of McGill University's Faculty of Law Recipient of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice’s Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship.
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Andrew NgForeign Service Officer, Global Affairs Canada
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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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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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John StewartPolicy Director, Economist and ManagerFormerly Director of Policy and Research, Canadian Nuclear Association Chair of the Policy Committee of Canada’s National Electricity Roundtable from 2015-18 Formerly Canada’s representative to the Washington-based Global Nexus Initiative
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Erin StrumpfAssociate Professor & William Dawson Scholar, Department of Economics and 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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