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

Andrew Potter

Interim Director

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

 

Jennifer Welsh

Director (January 2025)

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

 

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

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

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

Nicholas King 

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

nicholas.king [at] mcgill.ca

 

Taylor Owen

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

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

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University

Former Visiting Scholar at the Grupo de Analisis para del Desarrollo (GRADE).

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

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

Miled Hill

Former Chief of Staff with nearly 10 years of political experience in the Trudeau Government

Louis Levesque

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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