Maria Barrados retired from the federal public service as President of the Public Service Commission of Canada, having also served as Assistant Auditor General at the Office of the Auditor General of Canada. She is currently Executive-in-Residence at The Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. She continues to serve on Boards and advisory committees and pursue her research interests.
From her PH.D. on educational attainment of secondary school students she has maintained her interest in the identification of factors including social, experiential and economic that shape opportunities, careers and well-being. Further she remains interested in identifying appropriate policies and possible interventions.
Also of interest are the factors that influence organizational performance that have led to her work in public service reform, governance, financial and human resource management.
Barrados, Maria and Blain, J.S. (2013). “Improving Performance Results through the Use of Predictive Operational Performance Indicators: A Canadian Case Study.” American Journal of Evaluation 34,1:45-56.
Barrados, Maria. (2014). “ Getting Good Data to Evaluate Employment Equity Initiatives: an Example from Canada” Ch 15 in Kim Forss and Mitta Marra (ed.), Speaking Justice to Power, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
Barrados, Maria, Kim Forss and Peter Wilkins. (2014). “Equity-Oriented Interventions and Defining the Populations of Aboriginal People and National Minorities: Experiences from Sweden, Canada and Australia” Ch 16 in Kim Forss and Mitta Marra (ed.), Speaking Justice to Power, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
Barrados, Maria and Jonathan I. Mitchell (2017). “ Getting Started with Big Data: The Promises and Challenges of Evaluating Health-Care Quality” Ch 4 in Gustave J Petersson and Jonathan D. Breul, Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
Barrados, Maria and Lonsdale, Jeremy (ed.). (2020) Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices: Challenges and Opportunities, New York: Routledge.
