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Faculty

Our academic faculty comprises faculty members, crossed appointed faculty from around Carleton University, and retired professors, many of whom remain engaged contributors to the school. Please view their profiles to learn more about their backgrounds, research and teaching interests, and academic and practical contributions.

SPPA Faculty

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Ammi, Mehdi

  • Professor, Graduate Supervisor (PhD in Public Policy) — health economics; health policy; applied microeconomics
  • Email Mehdi
  • ext 3227
Graeme Auld

Auld, Graeme

  • Professor — comparative and global environmental politics and policy; international political economy; transnational private governance and private regulation; corporate social responsibility; climate change; natural resource governance
  • Email Graeme
  • 613-520-2600 ext 2259

Clarke, Amanda

  • Associate Professor — public administration, digital government, data governance, civic technology
  • Email Amanda
Mehmet Akif Demircioglu

Demircioglu, Mehmet Akif

  • Associate Professor – public sector innovation and entrepreneurship, good governance, effective leadership, public management, comparative and international public administration, organization theory, organizational behavior
  • Email Mehmet Akif
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Gagnon, Marc-André

  • Professor, Graduate Supervisor (MA in Public Policy and Administration) — social and health policy; pharmaceutical policy; innovation policy; science and technology studies; political economy; history of economic thought
  • Email Marc-André
  • 613-520-2600 ext 1690
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Galdo, José

  • Professor — labour economics; development economics; applied econometrics; program evaluation
  • Email José
  • ext 2939
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Grasse, Nathan

  • Associate Professor — nonprofit finance and financial management; governance and leadership; and strategic management
  • Email Nathan
  • ext 4177
Vivian Hoffman

Hoffmann, Vivian

  • Associate Professor — agricultural science, technology and innovation; health
  • Email Vivian
Anna Kopec

Kopec, Anna

  • Associate Professor — public policy, inequality, comparative public policy, policy design, political participation
  • Email Anna
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Mallett, Alexandra

  • Associate Professor — sustainable energy and climate policy; emerging economies / developing countries; low carbon technology cooperation; innovation, science and technology policies
  • Email Alexandra
  • 613-520-2600 ext 2641
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Meadowcroft, James

  • Chancellor’s Professor — Low-carbon transition; environmental policy; sustainable development; energy policy; climate change; comparative environmental politics and policy
  • Email James
  • ext 2214
Lisa Mills

Mills, Lisa

  • Associate Professor — maternal and reproductive health policy in the developing world, particularly Mexico; social policy in Mexico; the political economy of development; theories of development
  • Email Lisa
  • 613-520-2600 ext 2635
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Nordstrom, Ardyn

  • Assistant Professor — program and policy evaluation; development economics; education; cost-benefit analysis; mixed-methods evaluation; machine learning
  • Email Ardyn
Adegboyega Ojo

Ojo, Adegboyega

  • Professor, Canada Research Chair in Governance and Artificial Intelligence — digital Government; artificial intelligence governance; data-intensive public sector innovation; policy analytics
  • Email Adegboyega
Jessica Parish

Parish, Jessica

  • Assistant Professor — urban and local governance; gentrification; urban sustainability; environmental justice; housing; social reproduction; financialization; settler colonialism
  • Email Jessica
  • 613-520-2600 ext 8936

Raggo, Paloma

  • Associate Professor, Director of Charity Insights Canada Project — international nonprofits; leadership; organizational accountability; global philanthropy; online teaching; and mixed-methods research
  • Email Paloma

Rosenbloom, Daniel

  • Assistant Professor and Rosamond Ivey Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions, Graduate Supervisor (Sustainable Energy) – governance of socio-technical transitions and net-zero pathways; climate policy and politics; Canadian energy political economy; science, technology, and innovation
  • Email Daniel
  • ext 2638
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Ryan, Phil

  • Associate Professor — multiculturalism; policy theory
  • Email Phil
  • 613-520-2600 ext 2580
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Sabin, Jerald

  • Associate Professor – Canadian public administration, comparative federalism, territories, administrative history, politics in Northern Canada, indigenous-settler intergovernmental relations.
  • Email Jerald

Schott, Stephan

  • Professor — natural resource management; air quality control policy; northern development; common pool resources; experimental economics; energy policy and strategies
  • Email Stephan
  • 613-520-2600 ext 2557
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Shepherd, Robert

  • Professor, Graduate Supervisor (Public Policy and Program Evaluation) — Canadian public management; comparative public management; audit and federal program evaluation; performance measurement and management; First Nations governance; ethics and accountability in government
  • Email Robert
  • 613-520-2600 ext 2257
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Stewart, Jennifer

  • Associate Professor, Director of SPPA — health economics; labour economics
  • Email Jennifer
  • 613-520-2600 ext 2632

Tremblay-Boire, Joannie

  • Associate Professor — philanthropy and non-profit leadership, governments, philanthropic foundations, individuals, charities, NGO’s
  • Email Joannie
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Varughese, Anil

  • Associate Professor, Graduate Supervisor (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership) — Political Communication and Political Behavior; Governance and Democratic Deepening in Global South; Social Policy; South Asia
  • Email Anil
  • ext 2556

Cross Appointments

Malloy, Jonathan

Robson, Jennifer

Frances Wooley

Woolley, Frances

Retired Professors

Frances Abele, Professor Emerita

Abele, Frances

  • Distinguished Research Professor, Chancellor’s Professor Emerita — circumpolar political economy, Aboriginal-Canada relations, northern development policy, public participation and democracy
  • Email Frances
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Bienefeld, Manfred A.

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Carmichael, Calum M.

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Doern, G. Bruce

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Farquhar, Robin

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Mahon, Rianne

Dr. Allan Maslove

Maslove, Allan M.

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Pal, Leslie A.

Susan Phillips

Phillips, Susan

  • Professor, (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership) — comparative public policy for the third sector; philanthropy and nonprofits; public management
  • Email Susan
  • ext 2633
Saul Schwartz

Schwartz, Saul

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Swimmer, Gene

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Toner, Glen

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Van Loon, Richard

  • President Emeritus
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Winer, Stanley L.

In Memoriam

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Christopher Stoney

  • Community engagement in neighbourhood urban planning; emergency management and preparedness; intergovernmental relations; regulation, procurement and accountability
  • Email Christopher