Stephen Maguire
Adjunct Research Professor
- Ph.D, M.A. (Queen’s), B.A. (Ottawa)
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Research Interests:
- Organizational ethics
- Organizational influences on ethical conduct
- Ethical leadership
- Ethics in policing
- Police use of AI
Biography:
Dr. Maguire is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Ethics and Public Affairs Doctoral Program. He was the founder of the Certificate Program in Organizational Values and Ethics. The program prepares senior leaders and ethics advisors to develop customized organizational ethics programs.
Dr. Maguire was the lead researcher on the Professionalism and Policing Research Project sponsored by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) and the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. The project included two national surveys (2012 and 2018) totaling 14,000 respondents from 32 police services across Canada.
Dr. Maguire is Co-Chair of the CACP Ethics Committee (2023-2026) working on projects that include duty to intervene, ethical principles regarding police use of AI, and national principles of policing. He was previously a member of the Standing Committee on Ethical Matters at INTERPOL (2016-2025) and served as its Chair from 2023 to 2025. Dr. Maguire is also a member of the National Advisory Committee on Ethics at Correctional Service Canada. He was previously a member of the Advisory Task Force reviewing the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act for the Government of Canada. He is a former member of the Audit Advisory Committee for the Office of the Auditor General, Canada; the Corporate Ethics Management Council; and the Calgary Police Service Use of Force Review Committee. He has presented on ethics topics to delegations from China, Russia, and Central America. Abroad, he has conducted ethics workshops for the Jamaican Constabulary, the Hong Kong Police, and the Public Service Academies of India and Kazakhstan. Dr. Maguire has provided ethics consulting services to over 20 public service organizations in Canada and recommended changes to the Council of Europe’s ethical framework.