People

Faculty

Sara Bannerman

Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance | Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia

Members
Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Karen Bird

Chair of the Department of Political Science | Professor

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Department of Political Science

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Comparative Politics, Gender and Ethnic Relations, Gender & Politics, Politics of Representation, Public Policy

Katherine Boothe

Associate Professor

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Department of Political Science

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, Patient involvement in healthcare, Public Policy, Social & Health Policy

Katherine Cuff

Professor | Managing Editor, Canadian Journal of Economics | McMaster University Scholar

Faculty
McMaster Decision Science Laboratory (McDSL)

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

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Department of Economics

Area(s) of Interest: Fiscal Federalism, Microeconomics, Minimum Wages, Public Economics, Redistribution, Tax, Unemployment Insurance

Adrienne Davidson

Assistant Professor

Faculty
Department of Political Science

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

adrienne.davidson@mcmaster.ca

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian public policy, Child Care & Education, Comparative Public Policy, Federalism and Intergovernmental Relation, Indigenous Politics, Institutions and Identity, Public Policy, Social Policy

Michelle L. Dion

Associate Professor | Senator Wm. McMaster Chair in Gender & Methodology

Faculty
Department of Political Science

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Comparative Politics, Gender & Politics, Globalization, Public Policy, Social & Health Policy

Greg Flynn

Assistant Professor

Faculty
Department of Political Science

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics

James Gillett

Associate Dean, Grad Studies and Research, of Faculty of Social Sciences | Associate Professor

Associate Members
School of Social Work

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Associate Members
Department of Sociology

Faculty
Department of Health Aging & Society

Area(s) of Interest: Health, Media, Social Psychology, Sport and Physical Activity

Adam Lavecchia

Assistant Professor

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Faculty
Department of Economics

Area(s) of Interest: Labour Economics, Minimum Wages, Public Economics

Marc-Andre Letendre

Associate Professor | Chair of the Department of Economics

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Faculty
Department of Economics

Area(s) of Interest: International Economics, Macroeconomics

Tony Porter

Professor/Associate Director IGHC

Department of Anthropology

Faculty
Department of Political Science

Members
Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Associate Members
School of Labour Studies

Area(s) of Interest: Climate, Water & Sustainability, Critical International Relations, Global Political Economy, Globalization, International Relations

Bradley Ruffle

Professor | Academic Director, McMaster Decision Science Laboratory (McDSL)

Faculty
McMaster Decision Science Laboratory (McDSL)

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Faculty
Department of Economics

Area(s) of Interest: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Industrial Organization

Arthur Sweetman

Professor | Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources | Co-Editor of Canadian Journal of Economics

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Secure Empirical Analysis Lab (SEAL)

Faculty
Department of Economics

Area(s) of Interest: Econometrics, Economics of Education, Health and Health Care, Health Economics, Health Policy, Health Systems, Labour Economics, Microeconomics

Netina Tan

Associate Professor

Faculty
Department of Political Science

Members
Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Comparative Politics, Digital Technology, Electoral Politics, Gender and Ethnic Relations, Gender & Politics, Marginalized Groups, Politics of Representation, Qualitative data analysis, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Race and Gender, Social Inequalities, Social Media

Clifton van der Linden

Assistant Professor | Director, Digital Society Lab | Academic Director, Master of Public Policy Program

Faculty
Department of Political Science

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Digital Technology, Elections, Political behaviour, Public Opinion, Public Policy, Social Media, Survey methodology, Voting Advice Applications

Michael Veall

Professor | Academic Director, Statistics Canada Research Data Centre

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Faculty
Department of Economics

Area(s) of Interest: Econometrics, Health Economics, Population Economics, Public Economics

Andrea Zeffiro

Academic Director for the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship | Assistant Professor, Communication Studies & Multimedia

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Advisory Board

Benjamin Bergen

Executive Director of the Council of Canadian Innovators

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian public policy, Employment, Labour Economics, Labour Issues, Labour Markets, Policy, Politics, Public Policy

Neil Bouwer

Vice President of the Canada School of Public Service

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Jaimie Boyd

Chief Digital Officer, Government of British Columbia

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian public policy, Public Leadership, Public Policy, Public service restructuring

Kevin Chan

Global Director and Head of Public Policy, Canada at Facebook

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Monica Ciriello

Manager, Municipal Law and Licensing, City of Hamilton

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian Politics, Canadian public policy, Policy, Politics, Public Leadership, Public Policy

Honey Dacanay

Executive Director, Benefits Delivery Modernization at Employment and Social Development Canada

Professor of Practice, Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Steve de Eyre

Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, TikTok Canada

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Lindsay Doyle

Public Policy and Government Relations, Google Canada

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Jacob Glick

Vice President of Public Policy at TELUS

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian public policy, Law and Economics, Policy, Public Policy

Andrew Graham

Co-founder & CEO at Borrowell

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Big Data, Canadian public policy, Policy, Public Policy

Jake Hirsch-Allen

North America Workforce Development and Higher Education System Lead at LinkedIn

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Big Data, Canadian public policy, Education, Labour Issues, Labour Markets, Policy, Public Policy, Social Inequality

Susan Hough

Senior Analyst, Centre for Digital International Policy at Global Affairs Canada

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Jane Lytvynenko

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian Politics, Canadian public policy, Communications, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Public Policy

Paris Marx

Podcast Host, "Tech Won't Save Us"

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Luke Simcoe

Director of Outreach at Code for Canada

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian public policy, Communications, Education, Policy, Public Policy, Social Policy, Work and Occupations

Mark Surman

Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation

Professor of Practice, Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Cyrus Tehrani

Chief Digital Officer, City of Hamilton

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Kaylie Tiessen

Economist & Policy Analyst at Unifor

Advisory Board
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Canadian public policy, Employment, Labour, Labour Economics, Labour Issues, Labour Markets, Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Public Policy, Social Inequalities, Social Justice, Social Policy

Staff

Vass Bednar

Executive Director, Master of Public Policy Program

Staff
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Canadian public policy, Ethics, Labour Issues, Labour Markets, Pop Culture, Provincial Politics and Government, Public Leadership, Public Policy

Allison Van

Executive Director, Centre for Research in Empirical Social Science

Centre for Research in Empirical Social Sciences (CRESS)

Staff
Master of Public Policy Program

Area(s) of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Arts-based Research Methods, Art, Media, and Mediation, Asymmetric Information, Big Data, Buddhism, Child Welfare, Climate, Water & Sustainability, Communications, Community Based Research, Computational Economics, Econometrics, Fisheries, Global Political Economy, Health Care, Health Economics, Natural Resources, Policy, Poverty, Qualitative Methods, Research Ethics, Resource and Environmental Economics