Max Bell School Faculty 2022-23

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

Christopher Ragan

Economics professor and 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

Nathalie Duchesnay

Faculty Lecturer, Max Bell School of Public Policy

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 at the Max Bell School

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

Taylor Owen

Taylor Owen (on sabbatical)

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

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

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 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

Jennifer Welsh

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

MPP Teaching Faculty (2022-23)

Nii Addy

Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of International Development

Former 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.

Anne Andermann

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Founding 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.

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

Russell Copeman

Former Mayor of the Borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

Fourteen year tenure in the National Assembly, including Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Philippe Couillard

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

Jayne Engle

Director, Cities & Places Portfolio at the McConnell Foundation

Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, McGill University

Co-Director, Participatory Canada/part of Participatory City Global

Co-editor/co-author of a new book: Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities

Debbie Field & David Kraft

Coordinator, Coalition for Healthy School Food

Associate Member, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Toronto Metropolitan University

Yolande James

Attorney

Former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec; former Minister of Families

Julian Vikan Karaguesian

Director for Research, Economic Policy, Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)

Former Special Advisor, International Trade and Finance Branch, Finance Canada

Course Lecturer, Economics, McGill University

Geoffrey Kelley

Negotiator between Quebec government and Mohawk community of Kahnawake

Member, 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.

Tasha Kheiriddin

Media commentator and political analyst

2004 Ontario Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Former Vice-President of the Montreal Economic Institute; Former Director for Quebec of the Fraser Institute

Nicholas King

Nicholas King (on sabbatical)

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

Sonia Laszlo

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University

Member of the Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Organizations (CIRANO) and the Grupo de Analysis para el Desarrollo (GRADE).

Michael McAdoo

Partner & Director, Global Trade and Investment, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Vrinda Narain

Policy Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University

Former 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.

Andrew Ng

Foreign Service Officer, Global Affairs Canada

Cheryl Oates

Principal at gt&co

Previously Executive Director, Communications and Planning, Office of the Premier of Alberta

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