Nathalie Duchesnay is the Faculty Lecturer and Instructor for the Policy Lab at the Max Bell School of Public Policy. With over 30 years of experience advising governments, Crown corporations, and private sector organizations on strategy, governance, and institutional transformation, she brings a distinctive practitioner lens to graduate policy education.
Since 2018, Duchesnay has designed and led the Policy Lab, the MPP program's 9-credit capstone course, building it from the ground up across seven cohorts. The Policy Lab works with partner organizations to provide our student teams with real policy challenges such as Veteran Homelessness, AI Governance, Supply Chain Resilience in the Territorial North, Critical Minerals, Migration, and many more. The program has produced over 50+ published policy briefs on issues ranging from housing and homelessness to digital privacy, antimicrobial resistance, and national security, and has generated significant institutional partnerships for the School.
Duchesnay also teaches Strategies in Mergers and Acquisitions in the MBA program at the Desautels Faculty of Management, a course she created and has taught for over ten years. She is President of NextStep Services, her strategic advisory practice, and is bilingual in English and French.
Course offered:
- PPOL 620 Policy Lab (9 credits)
- BUSA 692 Strategies in Mergers and Acquisitions (3 credits)
Degrees:
MBA, McGill University (Strategy/Finance)
B.B.A., Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (Accounting and Finance)
