Munir Sheikh, an adjunct research professor in Carleton’s Department of Economics, has a straightforward and succinct definition of evidence-based policy development.
“You need to have a clear hypothesis and the evidence to back it,” says Canada’s former chief statistician, “and then you need to develop an appropriate policy.”
Sheikh, who resigned as the head of Statistics Canada in July 2010 over the federal government’s controversial decision to jettison the mandatory long-form census, will be speaking at Carleton on March 24 as part of the FPA Research Month closing panel, A New Era of Information in Decision-Making.
The other panelists will be Kevin Page, former parliamentary budget officer, and three Carleton professors: Marc-André Gagnon from the School of Public Policy and Administration, critical media and big data scholar. Tracey Lauriault, at the School of Journalism and Communication, and political scientist Stephen White.
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Friday, March 18, 2016 in FPA Research Series, News
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