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INFORMED By Ontario's Reality

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Andrew Sancton

Andrew Sancton is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario where he writes frequently on urban government and electoral redistribution. He is the author of "The Limits of Boundaries: Why City-regions Cannot be Self-governing," one of five books shortlisted for the 2009 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy. He has served three times as a member of the federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario.

Arthur Sweetman

Arthur Sweetman is a Professor in the Department of Economics where he holds the Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources and is also a member of CHEPA. He obtained his PhD in Economics at McMaster University. His research focuses primarily on empirical (econometric) approaches to economic policy issues, and he has an interest in quantitative program evaluation. Prior to returning to McMaster in 2010, his research areas were extremely broad involving, among other topics, labour market, social policy and health topics. At McMaster his primary focus is on economic and policy issues related to health human resources. He can be reached at arthur.sweetman@mcmaster.ca.

Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Department of Civil Engineering.

David A. Wolfe

Dr. David A. Wolfe is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Co-Director of the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems (PROGRIS) at the Munk School for Global Affairs. In July, 2009 he was named Royal Bank Chair in Public and Economic Policy at U of T. His past research projects have included Innovation Systems and Economic Development: The Role of Local and Regional Clusters in Canada and the Social Dynamics of Economic Performance: Innovation and Creativity in City Regions. David has also served in the Cabinet Office of the Government of Ontario and has been a research associate at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Program on Law and the Determinants of Social Ordering. David was 2008/9 CIBC Scholar-in-Residence and recently published the book 21st Century Cities in Canada: The Geography of Innovation.

Debra Thompson

Debra Thompson is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and will be a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University beginning in September 2010. Her research compares the politics of race and the census in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. She can be reached at debra.thompson@utoronto.ca.

Herb Emery

Dr. Herb Emery is the Svare Professor in Health Economics, jointly appointed to the Departments of Economics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. Dr. Emery has a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia and has been a member of the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary since 1993. His research is best described as contributing to the areas of health care finance and economic incentives. His published research has dealt with subjects that are relevant to the fields of health economics, labour economics, and to the literature on the rise and fall of social spending. He can be reached at hemery@ucalgary.ca.

J. Scott Matthews

J. Scott Matthews is an assistant professor of political studies at Queen’s University. His research specializes in the study of elections, voting and public opinion, and is incoming Co-Director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive.

Jennifer Wallner

Jennifer Wallner is an assistant professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina.

Joshua Hjartarson

Joshua Hjartarson is Policy Director at the Mowat Centre. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2005. Since then, he has lectured extensively in comparative and Canadian politics, including here at the U of T. His book on financial sector reform, "Foreign Banks and Financial Reform," was published in 2009. Josh also brings policy and management experience from the public sector, having served in various positions with the Government of Ontario in Intergovernmental Affairs, Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Finance. Prior to beginning his Ph.D., he lived in Central Europe and worked for Bank Austria in its financial markets research division.

Ken Kernaghan

Ken Kernaghan is professor emeritus, Department of Political Science, Brock University.

Leslie Seidle

F. Leslie Seidle is research director for the Diversity, Immigration and Integration program of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), Senior Policy Advisor with the Forum of Federations and a public policy consultant. He previously held senior positions in the Government of Canada, including director general of Strategic Policy and Research, Intergovernmental Affairs in the Privy Council Office (1996-2002). He was Research Director (Governance) at IRPP (1992-96) and Senior Research Coordinator for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing (1990-91). He is the author of Rethinking the Delivery of Public Services to Citizens (IRPP, 1995) and numerous articles on electoral and constitutional reform, citizen participation, public management and political finance. Dr. Seidle has edited/co-edited 12 books, including Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada (IRPP, 2007) and the comparative study Reforming Parliamentary Democracy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003).

Luc Turgeon

Luc Turgeon is an Assistant Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa.

Martin Hering

Martin Hering is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. His major fields of interest are European and comparative politics, comparative public policy, the development of welfare states, and European integration. He is particularly interested in understanding how institutions and policies change in highly unfavorable settings. In his work, he has tried to understand why “frozen” institutions become unstable, why political parties change their long-standing preferences, and why interest groups and voters accept unpopular policy decisions. His current research focuses on the politics of old-age security in countries with multipillar pension systems.

Matthew Mendelsohn

Matthew Mendelsohn is the Director of the Mowat Centre and an associate professor in the School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto. He has served as a Deputy Minister in the Ontario Government and a senior policy advisor in the Privy Council Office in the federal government. He was a member of the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University from 1994-2004.

Myer Siemiatycki

Myer Siemiatycki is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and a former Department Chair. He has also served as Director of Ryerson’s M.A. program in Immigration and Settlement Studies. His honours include Distinguished Educator Award (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education).

Naomi Alboim

Naomi Alboim is a senior fellow at the Maytree Foundation.

Neil Bradford

Dr. Neil Bradford teaches Political Science at Huron University College, University of Western Ontario. His research interests include political economy, public policy, and multi-level governance with a focus on local economic development and community-building. He is the author of Commissioning Ideas: Canadian National Policy Innovation in Comparative Perspective (Oxford 1998 and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. He published a CPRN series of discussion papers on Canada’s New Deal for Cities and Communities and is also working on three SSHRC projects exploring local innovation systems and diversity planning in mid-sized cities. He served as a civil servant in the government of Ontario, and has also advised the Government of Canada’s Department of Human Resources and Social Development on place-based public policy.

Phil Triadafilopoulos

Phil Triadafilopoulos is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches at the University's School of Public Policy and Governance. His research interests include comparative public policy, international migration, and ethnicity and nationalism. His current research focuses on how immigration and citizenship policies intersect with and help define boundaries of national belonging in liberal-democratic states.

Phil Triadfilopoulos

Phil Triadfilopoulos is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and a former Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow. Professor Triadafilopoulos’ research interests include comparative public policy, international migration, ethnicity and nationalism. He is currently completing a book titled Becoming Muliticultural: Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Canada and Germany.

Robert Wolfe

Robert Wolfe is Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University.

Roderick Macdonald

Roderick A. Macdonald is F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law at McGill University.

Sherri Torjman

Sherri Torjman is the Vice-President of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy.

Sujit Choudhry

Sujit Choudhry holds the Scholl Chair and is the Associate Dean (First Year Program) at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Thomas Klassen

Thomas Klassen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University. His research interests focuses primarily on comparative labour market and income security policies.

Tom Kent

Tom Kent is an Adjunct Professor at the Queen's School of Policy Studies, and is a Lifetime Fellow of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.

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