Program Faculty

Thomas Axworthy assumed his current position as the President and CEO of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation in 2009. In addition to his work with the Gordon Foundation, Tom has been Executive Director of the CRB Foundation in Montreal and the Historica Foundation in Toronto. As well, he is a longstanding board member of the Harmony Foundation, which specializes in environmental education. He was Senior Policy Advisor and Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In 1984, he went to Harvard University as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, and was subsequently appointed visiting Mackenzie King Chair of Canadian Studies. He is also a former Chair of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University. In 2002, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of his achievements in heritage education, civics and citizenship.

An authority on social and economic policy issues, Keith Banting is the author of Poverty, Politics and Policy and The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism. He is an editor and co-author of another dozen books dealing with public policy, including most recently Federalism and Health Policy: A Comparative Perspective on Multi-Level Governance. He currently holds the Queen’s Research Chair in Public Policy. Professor Banting served as Director of the School of Policy Studies from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that appointment, he served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Queen’s University. In 1983-85, he was a Research Coordinator for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada. In 1986-92, he was a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and in 1990 was elected vice-president of the Council. In 2005, Dr. Banting was invested as a member of the Order of Canada.

Tom Courchene is a member of the Department of Economics, the School of Policy Studies and the Faculty of Law, and is Senior Scholar, Institute for Research on Public Policy in Montreal. He served as Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University from July 2007 to February 2010. He is one of Canada’s most distinguished public policy analysts and is a Senior Scholar of the IRPP. He is author or editor of more than 300 books and articles on Canadian policy issues. Dr. Courchene is an expert on Canadian monetary policy, financial deregulation, the political economy of Canadian federalism, and comparative federal systems. He was inducted as an Officer into the Order of Canada in 1999.

Mr. Allan Gregg founded Decima Research in 1979. He co-founded the Strategic Counsel of Decima Research in 1995 and left in 2007 to form Allan Gregg Strategies. He was one of the founding shareholders of Canada's children's network, YTV, was Chairman of Toronto Film Festival, Chairman of the Walrus Foundation and publisher of the award winning magazine, The Walrus. For more than two decades, he has brought his skills to bear on such important policy issues as budget measures, transportation and fishery policy, physicians' fees and the privatization of Crown corporations. He is a Director of ZENN Motor Company Inc., a member of the Retirement Advisory Council of Bank of Montreal, and serves on General Motors of Canada's Advisory Board and the Board of Directors of the Public Policy Forum. He is a regular participant on CBC's “At Issue” panel and is the host of the TVO talk show - Allan Gregg in Conversation With.

Michael Hart, a former official of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, is an authority on trade policy and trade negotiations. He recently completed a year in Washington, DC, as the Fulbright-Woodrow Wilson Center Visiting Research Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations, the Scholar-in Residence in the School of International Service, and a Senior Fellow in the Center for North American Studies at American University. Mr. Hart was the founding Director of Carleton’s Centre for Trade Policy and Law, and is the author, editor or co-editor of over a dozen books on international trade issues including A Trading Nation and Decision at Midnight.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs columnist with The Toronto Star and a guest columnist for Le Devoir. She is also a regular contributor to the weekly “At Issue” panel on the CBC’s National News. Ms. Hébert served as parliamentary bureau chief for La Presse and Le Devoir in Ottawa, and as a political reporter for Radio-Canada. She is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, the 2005 recipient of APEX’s Public Service Award, and the 2006 recipient of the Hyman Solomon award for excellence in journalism and public policy.

Honourary President, Association of Canadian Clubs Flora MacDonald served as Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands from 1972-1988, and was appointed Secretary of State for External Affairs in the Clark Government, Minister of Employment and Immigration and Minister of Communications and Culture in the Mulroney Government. Since leaving politics, she has served as President or Chair of many national and international organizations including Future Generations International, the International Development Research Centre, HelpAge International, the Shastri Indo-Canada Advisory Council, World Vision, the World Federalists of Canada, as Honourary President of the Association of Canadian Clubs, a member of the Carnegie Commission on the Prevention of Deadly Conflict, and as Special Advisor to the Commonwealth of Learning. In 2005, she received the highest award given to civilians in India, and has been a Companion of the Order of Canada since 1999.

Hugh Segal joined the Canadian Senate in 2005, after four decades of public service which included Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Canada, Associate Cabinet Secretary (Ontario) for Federal-Provincial Affairs and Policies and Priorities, Legislative Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition (Ottawa), and President of the Independent Institute for Research on Public Policy. Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism, he is a former Chair and present member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. He headed a NATO parliamentary delegation to Washington and is a former Chair (Calgary 2004) of the annual Canada-UK Colloquium. He was a Senior Fellow at Queen’s School of Policy Studies and was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2003.

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk School for Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the co-author, with Eugene Lang, of the prize-winning The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar. She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Dr. Stein currently serves as Co-Chair of the International Programs Committee on the Board of Care Canada.

George Thomson has had a distinguished and high profile career in law and the public service of Ontario and Canada, including appointments as the Deputy Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Judge of the Provincial Court and Associate Deputy Minister of Community and Social Services, Deputy Minister for Citizenship, Deputy Minister of Labour and Deputy Attorney General in Ontario. He was also the Director of Education for the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Pamela Wallin is a Canadian-born journalist, diplomat, and entrepreneur with a career that has spanned more than thirty years and several continents. Although her work as a journalist covered all aspects of domestic and international politics, Ms. Wallin has dedicated much of her professional career to coverage of the Canada/U.S. relationship. Ms. Wallin completed a four-year term as Consul General of Canada in New York. She is the author of three books and she has thirteen Honorary Doctorates.