The Max Bell School鈥檚 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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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, 91社区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 |
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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, 91社区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 |
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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 |
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Rees KassenDirector,听Trottier Institute of Science and Public Policy, 91社区Full Professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, and in the Max Bell School of Public Policy听 Rees.Kassen [at] mcgill.ca |
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Nicholas King听Associate professor in Biomedical Ethics, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, 91社区nicholas.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 |
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Christopher Ragan听(on sabbatical)Economics professor and Founding Director, Max Bell School of Public PolicyMember of Finance Minister鈥檚 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,听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听(on sabbatical)Full Professor and Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, Faculties of Law and of Arts, 91社区Previously a Professor of Philosophy at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al, 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 Universit茅 de Montr茅al (CR脡UM) for many years. Daniel.Weinstock2 [at] mcgill.ca |
MPP Teaching Faculty (2024-25)
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Francisco Alvarez-CuadradoAssociate Professor, Department of Economics, 91社区Former 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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Assistant Professor (Research) at 91社区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 |
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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 听 |
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Dirk DruetAffiliate Researcher, Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, 91社区Non-Resident Fellow, Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations of the International Peace Institute 听 |
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Mayssun El-AttarFaculty Lecturer, Department of Economics, 91社区 |
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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.听 |
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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鈥檚 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, 91社区 |
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Narendra SubramanianProfessor of Political Science, 91社区 |
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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 Scholar听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, 鈥淚ndividualization of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law, and Politics of Armed Conflict.鈥� |
