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Taking Public Universities Seriously
December 3-4, 2004 Participant profiles Benjamin Alarie - Nicholas Barr - Bahram Bekhradnia - Adalsteinn (Steini) D. Brown - David M. Cameron - H. Lorne Carmichael - John Challis - Sujit Choudhry - Ian D. Clark - Frank Cunningham - Ron Daniels - Paul Davenport - Michael B. Decter - David G. Duff - David Dyzenhaus - David Farrar - Ross Finnie - Jane Gaskell - Peter George - Meric S. Gertler - Vivek Goel - Andrew Green - Janice Gross Stein - Martin Hayden - Ruth Hayhoe - The Hon. Frank Iacobucci - Edward M. Iacobucci - Glen A. Jones - Daniel W. Lang - Donald N. Langenberg - Lorna Marsden - Frank Milne - James Milway - Claire M. Morris - Ian Orchard - Stephen Parker - Gilles G. Patry - Susan Pfeiffer - J. Robert S. Prichard - W. Craig Riddell - Arthur Ripstein - Steven J. Rosenstone - Pekka Sinervo - Andrew A. Sorensen - Lorne Sossin - Mark Stabile - Arthur Sweetman - Michael J. Trebilcock - Carolyn Tuohy - Melissa Williams - Ross Williams - David. A. Wolfe Benjamin Alarie, B.A. (Wilfrid Laurier) 1999, M.A. (Toronto) 2002, J.D. (Toronto) 2002, LL.M. (Yale) 2003, of the Bar of Ontario, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto. In 2003-04 he served as Law Clerk to Madam Justice Louise Arbour of the Supreme Court of Canada. Research and teaching interests include behavioural law and economics, economic analysis of law, contract law, taxation, and tax policy. Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics at the London School of Economics, is the author of numerous books and articles including The Economics of the Welfare State (OUP, 4th edn, 2004) and The Welfare State as Piggy Bank (OUP, 2001), and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Social Security Review. He spent two periods at the World Bank – from 1990-92 working on the design of income transfers and health finance in Central and Eastern Europe, and in 1995-96 as a principal author of the World Bank's World Development Report 1996. In 2000 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund. Since the late 1980s he has been active in the international debate on higher education. He has submitted invited evidence to UK official inquiries, was an adviser to the Australian West Committee, has contributed to policy formation in New Zealand, and has advised the Hungarian government on the design of student loans. Bahram Bekhradnia has directed the Higher Education Policy Institute, an Oxford-based think tank concerned with higher education policy, since 2002. Previously, Bahram was Director of Policy of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, where he oversaw the allocation of £5 billion of Government grants to universities in England. He directed the development of national policies for learning and teaching, and was at the heart of most of the key policy developments affecting HE in England during the 1990s. He also oversaw the development, conduct and review of the 1992, 1996 and 2001 Research Assessment Exercises. Before joining the UFC he was a civil servant in the Department of Education and Science (as it then was), where he was latterly Head of the Teacher Supply Division. Bahram has extensive international experience, and has advised a number of Governments on various aspects of higher education reform, in particular relating to quality assessment and enhancement, funding methods, and performance-based funding. Bahram holds degrees in Literae Humaniores from the University of Oxford and was awarded a doctorate of the University of North London (Honoris Causa). He is a visiting Professorial Fellow of the University of London Institute of Education, and is a member of the Governing Board of the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Adalsteinn (Steini) D. Brown, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto and the Principal Investigator for the Hospital Report Project. This project develops balanced scorecards for inpatient hospital care, emergency department care, and chronic care. It also includes special reports describing methods for performance measurement in rehabilitation, mental health, population health, women’s health, and nursing. There are more than 35 researchers at four universities and four institutes working on the Hospital Report Project. For his work in health care performance measurement, he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 in 2003. He has recently been seconded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care as Lead of Information Management on the Health Results Team which will assist the government in transforming the province's health care system. The team will be responsible for creating systems to collect timely and accurate information that will drive informed decision making. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation, an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, an Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, and an Associate of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University. In addition to his work on performance measurement, he has grant and contract-funded research on quality improvement, accountability, the effective communication of performance information to consumers and the cost-effectiveness of emerging screening, and diagnostic technologies. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, he was a founding member of SAI, a health care management consulting firm with offices in New York City and in Menlo Park, California. He has worked with a wide range of private sector clients in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and the Far East on strategy and performance measurement in health care. He graduated magna cum laude (government) from Harvard in 1993. He received his D.Phil from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Oxford in 2002. He was a Harvard National Scholar and a Rhodes Scholar.
David M. Cameron received his university education at UBC, Queen’s and the University of Toronto, obtaining his PhD in Political Science in 1969. He joined Dalhousie University the same year. From 1971 to 1973 he was on leave, serving as Senior Policy Advisor in the newly formed Ministry of State for Urban Affairs in the Government of Canada. In 1975 he was appointed the first Director of the new School of Public Administration at Dalhousie, holding that position until 1980. He then joined the Office of the President, first as Executive Director of Policy and Planning, and then as Vice-President, Planning and Resources. He returned to full-time teaching and research in 1985. Dr. Cameron has served on numerous university committees, and as Chief Negotiator for the university management in collective bargaining with the faculty union. His consulting activities include the Provincial Ministers responsible for Manpower, the Task Force on Canadian Unity, the Ontario Royal Commission on Declining Enrolment, the 1982 Constitutional Conference in Halifax, and the 1987 National Forum on Post-secondary Education. His research interests centre on Canadian federalism, post-secondary education, and local government. He recently served on the Nova Scotia Council on Higher Education and as Interim Chair of the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission. He was a member of the Ontario Advisory Panel on Future Directions for Post-secondary Education, which reported in 1996. He is the author or co-author of several books and articles on Canadian public policy, including More Than An Academic Question: Universities, Government, and Public Policy in Canada. H. Lorne Carmichael is a Professor of Economics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He received his BA(hon) in Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario in 1976 and his PhD. in Economics from Stanford University in 1980. He has taught at Queen's since then, and has also visited and lectured in Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and the United States. At Queen's he was Head of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 2001 Professor Carmichael's early research focused on the economics of labour market practices and institutions such as seniority rules, incentive pay, multiskilling, mandatory retirement, and academic tenure. Since then he has also been working on evolutionary models of economic behaviour, and has published papers on gift giving, the endowment effect, and sunk costs. His most recent work on the Economics of Post-Secondary Education has focused on the issue of how much students should pay for a university education, and on how these payments should be structured to promote equity, efficiency, and accessibility. John Challis is currently the Vice-President, Research and Associate Provost at the University of Toronto. He is also a Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Toronto, an Affiliate Scientist at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital and at the Toronto Hospital, and an Affiliate Investigator at the Lawson Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Challis was formerly the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health. He is also a past Chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Nottingham, and his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He conducted postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Diego, and at Harvard Medical School before returning to the University of Oxford as a Research Scientist in 1974. In 1976, he moved to Canada as a Medical Research Council Scholar at McGill University. Two years later he moved to the University of Western Ontario, where he was made Full Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1981. A long-standing leader in his field, Dr. Challis was the first Scientific Director of the Lawson Research Institute, and Vice-President, Research at St. Joseph's Health Centre, London, Ontario. He was also the founding Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Fetal and Neonatal Health and Development in 1989, a post he held until his move to Toronto in 1995. In recent years, Dr. Challis has served as Chair of the Canadian Investigators in Reproduction, the Fetal Physiology Commission of the International Union of Physiological Societies, and the International Council on the Fetal Origins of Adult Disease. He is also a past President of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, the Physiological Society of Canada, and the Perinatal Research Society. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Science Centre. An active researcher, Dr. Challis has published some 400 scientific papers and articles, trained more than 60 graduate students and post-doctoral trainees, and served on the advisory boards of several research institutes in Canada and abroad. Currently he is an Editor of J. Clin. Endocrinology Metabolism, and Editorial Board member of Endocrinology, J. Mol. Endocrinology, J. Endocrinology, Placenta, J. Soc. Gynecol. Invest. and Reviews in Reproduction. Dr. Challis’s research has uncovered fundamental processes contributing to both pre-term birth and birth at term. He has received many awards and lectureships for his work, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Sujit Choudhry is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto. He holds law degrees from the University of Oxford, the University of Toronto, and the Harvard Law School. Professor Choudhry was a Rhodes Scholar, and held the William E. Taylor Memorial Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, he served as law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada. During the 1998-99 academic year, he was a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions, and a Visiting Researcher at the Harvard Law School. Professor Choudhry’s principal research and teaching interests are Constitutional Law and Theory, and Health Law and Policy. He is currently working on a book, Multinational Federations and Constitutional Failure: The Constitutional Politics of Quebec Secession, and is editing two volumes, The Migration of Constitutional Ideas and Redistribution in the Canadian Federation. Professor Choudhry was a consultant to the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission) and the National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health (the Naylor Committee), and is part of a team of foreign constitutional experts working with the Forum of Federations and the Centre for Policy Alternatives in support of the Sri Lankan peace negotiations. He was recently appointed to the Province of Ontario's Academic Advisory Committee on Democratic Renewal. He currently serves as Chair of the Advisory Board of the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario. Ian D. Clark is the President of the Council of Ontario Universities, an organization that represents the collective interests of the 18 universities and 2 associate member institutions in Ontario. A Rhodes Scholar from British Columbia, Clark received a B.Sc. in physics and chemistry from the University of British Columbia (1966), a Doctor of Philosophy degree (1969) from Oxford University and a Masters in Public Policy degree (1972) from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, from which he received in 1997 the School’s Alumni Achievement Award. From 1996 to 1998, Clark was a Partner in KPMG, an international accounting and consulting firm, and the Research Director of the KPMG Centre for Government Foundation. From 1994 to 1996, he served on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. From 1972 to 1994, Clark served in a variety of departments and central agencies in the federal government. He was Secretary of the Treasury Board from 1989 to 1994 and, from 1993, concurrently Comptroller General of Canada. From 1987 to 1989 he was Deputy Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, and from 1982 to 1987 Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet in the Privy Council Office. Previously, he held management positions in the Ministry of State for Economic Development and the Department of Regional Economic Expansion and was Executive Assistant to the Minister of State for Urban Affairs. Clark currently serves on the board of the Canadian Urban Institute and is a member of the Editorial Board of Canadian Public Administration. He is a Senior Fellow of Massey College and the author of numerous articles on governance and management such as “Reshaping Ottawa’s Centre of Government: Martin’s Reforms in Historical Perspective” (with Evert Lindquist and James Mitchell in How Ottawa Spends, 2004-2005: Mandate Change And Continuity In The Paul Martin Era, 2004), “Comments on the Challenge of Change: Canadian Universities in the twenty-first century” (in Canadian Public Administration, Fall, 2002), “Distant Reflections on Public Service Reform in the 1990s” (in Public Service Reform, Office of the Auditor General, February 2001), “Global Economic Trends: Implications for Canadian Governments” (in Canadian Public Administration, Spring, 1997), “Inside the IMF: Comparisons with Policy-making Organizations in Canadian Government” (in Canadian Public Administration, Summer, 1996), and “Restraint, Renewal and the Treasury Board Secretariat” (in Canadian Public Administration, Summer, 1994). Ian Clark and his wife, Marjorie, live in Toronto.
Frank Cunningham is Principal of Innis College and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science. His main area of teaching and research is political philosophy with an emphasis on democratic theory.
Ron Daniels is Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. He was appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1988, where he teaches corporate law, securities and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and regulation of financial institutions. He has been Dean of the Faculty since 1995. He is the author (or co-author) of numerous scholarly articles on topics as diverse as corporate and securities law, federalism and financial institution regulation, privatization and government reform. He is active in public policy formulation, and has contributed to several policy related task forces, including: Chair of the Ontario Task Force on Securities Regulation, member of the Toronto Stock Exchange Committee on Corporate Governance (the "Dey Committee"); Chair of the Ontario Market Design Committee, the Committee that was charged with the task of developing the market rules for the new Ontario electricity market; Chair of the Provincial Government’s Panel of the Future of Government; and Advisor to the Ontario Government on Public Accounting Regulation Reform. Professor Daniels is a founding member of International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty. He is past-President of the Council of Canadian Law Deans and of the Council of Ontario Law Deans. Professor Daniels received his J.D. from the University of Toronto in 1986 and his LL.M. from Yale University in 1988. Paul Davenport is the ninth President of The University of Western Ontario. He began a five-year term as Western’s leader on July 1, 1994 and has been renewed for a third term to 2009. Dr. Davenport attended Stanford University, where he received the BA with Honours in Economics in 1969, graduating With Great Distinction and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He holds MA and PhD degrees in Economics from the University of Toronto. From 1973 to 1989 he was a professor of Economics at McGill University, where his research focused on economic growth and productivity. He served as President of the University of Alberta from 1989 to 1994. He has served as Chair of the Association of Canadian Universities and Colleges of Canada (1997-1999) and the Council of Ontario Universities (1999-2001). He has Honorary Degrees from the University of Toronto, the International University of Moscow, and the University of Alberta. In 2001, Dr. Davenport was named a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the Government of France, and in 2002 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Michael B. Decter is a Harvard trained economist with over two decades of experience as a senior manager. He is a leading Canadian expert on health systems, with a wealth of international experience. In 2003, he was appointed as founding Chair of the Health Council of Canada. As a senior manager in the public sector, Michael served as Deputy Minister of Health for Ontario. He also served as Cabinet Secretary in the Government of Manitoba. Michael is the author of several books, including Four Strong Winds – Understanding the Growing Challenges to Health Care, published in June 2000. As a consultant, Michael has lead major assignments, including reengineering, mergers, and strategic planning for many of Canada's leading teaching hospitals and health systems. Michael has also worked for health associations and religious orders with works in the health field. Clients have included the Catholic Health Association of Canada, Les Soeurs de Charité de Montréal, the Grey Nuns of Manitoba, and the Catholic Health Association of Ontario. Most recently, Michael was the Chair of the Canadian Institute for Health Information. He continues to serve as Chair of St. Elizabeth Healthcare, and the Ontario Cancer Quality Council. He is a Board Member of Innova Life Sciences and Evolved Digital Systems. David G. Duff, B.A. Hons. (Queen’s) 1984, M.A. (York) 1987, LL.B. (Toronto) 1989, M.A. (Toronto) 1990, LL.M. (Harvard) 1991, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1996, is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, with teaching and research interests in the areas of tax law, tax policy, and distributive justice. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 1996, Professor Duff was a tax associate at the Toronto office of Stikeman, Elliott. He was also employed as a researcher with the Ontario Fair Tax Commission from 1991 to 1993 and as a tax policy analyst with the Ontario Ministry of Finance in 1993-1994. Professor Duff has published numerous articles on tax law and tax policy and is the author of Canadian Income Tax Law, a textbook/casebook that was jointly published by Emond Montgomery and the Canadian Tax Foundation in 2003. He has been a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law of Oxford University, at the University of Sydney Law Faculty, and at the Faculty of Law at McGill University. David Dyzenhaus is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Associate Dean of Law (Graduate). His work focuses on the rule of law and legal theory and he has written three books on this topic: Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: South African Law in the Perspective of Legal Philosophy (OUP, 1991); Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt in Weimar (OUP,1997) and Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order (Hart, 1998). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. David Farrar (BSc 1975, MSc 1976, Ph.D 1980) is Deputy Provost and Vice-Provost, Students and Professor of Chemistry in the Faculty of Arts and Science at U of T. He joined the chemistry department as an assistant professor in 1981, becoming an associate professor in 1986, a full professor in 1998, and department chair from 1999 to 2002. During this period, he also served five years as associate chair, undergraduate students. As Deputy Provost and Vice-Provost, Students he is responsible for student recruitment, admissions and awards, student affairs, student services, student exchanges and student information systems. The University Registrar; Warden of Hart House; Director, Office of Teaching Advancement and, the Provost's Adviser on Outreach and Access all report to him. He is senior assessor of the University Affairs Board, and assessor of the Academic Board and of the Committee on Academic Policy and Programs. Farrar has authored or co-authored over 70 technical papers, holds 4 patents, and has supervised over 25 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. In addition to his degrees from U of T, Farrar has a doctorate from the University of Western Ontario. Ross Finnie studied at Queen’s University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently a Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University and a Visiting Scholar at Statistics Canada. His current interests in post-secondary education include access as it relates to family background, the measurement of quality, and the student financial aid system, including a recent proposal for a “New Architecture” for student financial assistance in Canada. Jane Gaskell is Dean at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She was Professor of Educational Studies, Associate Dean, and Department Head at the University of British Columbia before joining the University of Toronto in 2003. She received her doctorate from Harvard University, was president of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, served on the board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and received the Whitworth award for educational research from the Canadian Education Association. Dr. Gaskell has written on secondary schools in Canada, educational policy, the impact of feminism on educational research and practice, and school to work linkages. Her most recent book is Educational Outcomes for the Canadian Workplace: New Frameworks for Policy and Research, published by University of Toronto Press in 2004. Her current SSHRC-funded project is on educational approaches to poverty in Canadian cities since 1965. Peter George is a well-known scholar and educator, with extensive experience in senior academic administrative and executive positions. He was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University, on July 1, 1995. An economist with strong interdisciplinary interests, Dr. George is the author of many publications. His research has contributed to our understanding of the historical economic factors that have influenced the development of Canada, our Northern aboriginal societies, and our local community. Dr. George is a Member of the Order of Canada. He has received three honorary degrees and many awards for innovative educational and community activities. He has earned a strong reputation for his forthright views on higher education and its contributions to economic and social renewal, and continues to write and speak on issues in the management and impact of higher education. Dr. George is active in both community and voluntary organizations.
Meric S. Gertler is Professor of Geography and Planning, and the Goldring Chair in Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. He also co-directs the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems at U of T’s Centre for International Studies. An economic geographer and planner by training, his degrees are from McMaster, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Oxford, University College London, and UCLA, and currently holds a part-time appointment in the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Professor Gertler co-directs the Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN), a national network of scholars funded by a five-year (2001-05) $2.5 million MCRI grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to conduct a comparative study of the emergence and evolution of regional economic clusters across Canada. This project is undertaking studies of some 26 regional cases, and Professor Gertler is principal investigator for the case study of the bioscience cluster in the Greater Toronto Area. In addition to his work on clusters and local innovation processes, he studies the changing economic structure of Canada’s city-regions and the forces shaping their evolution. He has recently collaborated with Richard Florida and others to produce Competing on Creativity: Placing Ontario’s Cities in North American Context. Among his other recent publications are: A Region in Transition: The Changing Structure of Toronto’s Regional Economy (Neptis Foundation, 2000), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (with Gordon Clark and Maryann Feldman, Oxford University Press, 2000), Innovation and Social Learning (with David Wolfe, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002), and Manufacturing Culture: The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice (Oxford University Press, 2004). He is Associate Editor of The Journal of Economic Geography and a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. He is also a member of Statistics Canada’s Advisory Committee on Science and Technology Statistics. Vivek Goel is Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto, and Professor in the Departments of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. His previous positions include: Vice-Provost, Faculty, Chair of the Department of Health Administration at the University of Toronto, Senior Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Scientific Program Leader of the Health Evidence Applications Linkages Network of Centres of Excellences, Governor of the University of Toronto (served on Business Board, University Affairs Board, and as Vice-Chair of Academic Board), President of the Central East Health Information Partnership, and Founding President of the National Specialty Society in Community Medicine. He holds a medical degree from McGill University, a Master’s degree in Health Administration from the University of Toronto, and a Master’s degree in Biostatistics from Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in community medicine. His main research interests are in health care evaluation with a focus on medical screening interventions, especially cancer screening; breast cancer health services research, and population health informatics. He serves on the CIHR Institute for Health Services and Policy Research Advisory Board, the Ontario Health Research Alliance Board of Directors, and as Chair of the Population Health Investigator Review Committee, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. Andrew Green is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. He received a B.A. (Hons) from Queen’s University in economics and philosophy, a M.A. in economics from the University of Toronto, a LL.B. from the University of Toronto and a LLM and JSD from the University of Chicago. He was recently the Senior Research Fellow for Ontario's Panel on the Role of Government during which he researched and wrote on government's role in education. He has practiced environmental law in Toronto and is currently teaching and researching in the areas of environmental law, law and economics and international trade at the Faculty of Law.
Janice Gross Stein is Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board to the Minister of Defence and as a member of the Board of CARE Canada. Janice Stein was the Massey Lecturer in 2001. She has recently been appointed a Trudeau Fellow and was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. Martin Hayden, Professor of Higher Education, Head, School of Education, Southern Cross University, Australia, completed his PhD in higher education policy studies at the University of Melbourne. During the past 25 years, he has been actively engaged in a range of research projects related to higher education policy and issues of teaching and learning in universities. His long-term interests relate to equity in student participation in higher education. More recently, as an outcome of positions held, he has become interested in issues of university governance. He is widely published and has acted as a consultant to government on matters related to student finances, student participation and the internal governance of higher education institutions. His most recent major report was a national survey of student finances in Australia. Ruth Hayhoe is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and president emerita of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She has written extensively on higher education in China and educational relations between China and the West. Her recent books include Education, Culture and Identity in Twentieth Century China, co-edited with Glen Peterson and Yongling Lu (University of Michigan Press, 2001), and Knowledge Across Cultures: A Contribution to Dialogue among Civilizations, co-edited with Julia Pan (Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, 2001), She has received a number of honours and awards, including Honorary Fellow of the University of London Institute of Education (1998), the Silver Bauhinia Star of the Hong Kong SAR Government (2002) and Commandeur dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques by the Government of France. (2002) The Honourable Frank Iacobucci began his term as interim President of the University of Toronto on Sept. 1, 2004. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree (1961) and a Bachelor of Laws degree (1962) from the University of British Columbia, and a Master of Laws degree (1964) and a Diploma in International Law (1966) from Cambridge University. After practising law in New York City, he joined the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor in 1967, and was promoted to Professor in 1971. There followed a series of appointments in quick succession in which he served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1973 to 1975; Vice-President, Internal Affairs from 1975 to 1978; Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1979 to 1983; and finally, Vice-President and Provost from 1983 to 1985. In 1981-82, he served as a member of the Governing Council of the University of Toronto. During these years, he was also a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 1978. In 1985, he left the University having been appointed Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada. In 1988, he was named to the Federal Court of Canada as Chief Justice, and in 1991 he was named Puisne Judge to the Supreme Court of Canada. While a judge, he wrote leading judgments in a variety of fields. During his distinguished academic career, he authored numerous publications including five major books in business law, and a large variety of articles, papers and reports. A Director of the University of Toronto Foundation from 1997 to 2002, he is also the recipient of eight honorary degrees from universities in Canada and abroad, including the University of Toronto. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and, of the American College of Trial Lawyers. In recognition of his long and distinguished career in public service, he has received numerous civic awards both in Canada, and in Italy, which named him Commendatore dell’Ordine Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.
Edward M. Iacobucci, B.A. (Hons.) (Queen's) 1991; M.Phil. (Oxon.) 1993; LL.B. (Toronto) 1996, is an Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. He started at the Faculty of Law in 1998. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School in 2003 and a John M. Olin Visiting Fellow at Columbia University Law School in 2002. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, he was the John M. Olin Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia in 1997-98 and served as Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for Mr. Justice John Sopinka in 1996-97. He won a teaching prize at the Faculty of Law in 2000 and was a joint winner with his co-authors of the 2002-3 Doug Purvis Prize in Canadian Economics for The Law and Economics of Canadian Competition Policy. His areas of interest include corporate law, competition law, and law and economics more generally.
Glen A. Jones is Professor of Higher Education and Associate Dean, Academic at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is the author of more than forty papers on Canadian higher education. His edited books include Higher Education in Canada: Different Systems, Different Perspectives (Garland Press, New York, 1997) and (with Alberto Amaral and Berit Karseth) Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance (Kluwer, The Netherlands, 2002). His most recent book (co-edited with Patricia McCarney and Michael Skolnik), Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations: The Changing Role of Higher Education will be published in 2005 by the University of Toronto Press. He is a past president of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, and a former Editor of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education. In 2001 he received the career Research Award from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. Daniel W. Lang is a professor in the department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education. Prior to taking up an appointment at OISE/UT, Mr. Lang was Vice Provost (Planning and Budget) at the University of Toronto, where he also held the positions of University Registrar , Vice President for Computing and Communications, and Senior Policy Advisor to the President. In addition to his appointment at OISE/UT, Mr. Lang holds appointments in the Division of Management and Economics at the University of Toronto – Scarborough, and the Department of Geography in the Faculty of arts and Science, and Victoria College. He is Chair of the Council of Ontario Universities Committee on Accountability and Head Coach of the University of Toronto Varsity Blues baseball team. In 2004 he was the recipient of the Palgrave Prize awarded by the International Association of Universities, and of the Ontario Universities Athletic association Coach of the Year award. Mr. Lang's current research interests include: finance, management, budgeting, planning, system organization and policy, inter-institutional planning and cooperation, accountability and performance indicators, and history. Donald N. Langenberg is an experimental condensed matter physicist who has taught and conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania, with sabbatical forays at Oxford University, the Ecole Normale Supérieure, the California Institute of Technology, and the Technische Universität München. He has served as Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation and Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago and of the University System of Maryland. He is currently Chancellor Emeritus of the University System of Maryland and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Lorna Marsden, President & Vice-Chancellor of York University since 1997, heads Canada's third largest university. Born in Sidney, B.C., she began her undergraduate studies at Victoria College (now University of Victoria) and then moved east to receive a BA from the University of Toronto in 1968. She went on to Princeton University for graduate studies and, earning a PhD in sociology in 1972, and returned to the University of Toronto to begin an academic career. There she taught economic sociology and led the graduate studies program in industrial relations at the Centre for Industrial Relations, chaired the new women's studies committee, and took up the chair of the department of sociology. She became the associate dean of graduate students and later vice-provost of the University. In January 1984, Prime Minister Trudeau appointed her to the Senate of Canada where she served on committee studies ranging from youth issues to comprehensive audits and was vice-chair of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association. In 1992 she resigned from the Senate to become president & vice-chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. Her own research has focused on two major questions: What are the major structural forces causing social change in Canada? And how do people – especially women – make a living and how does that change over time? Most recently, she has worked with an international team to study the impact of multilateral trade deals on women’s economic lives. Working with colleagues in her field, her two major books are The Fragile Federation: Social Change in Canada, and Lives of Their Own: The Individualization of Women's Lives.
Frank Milne received his M.Ec from Monash University in 1970, and his Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1975. He has held positions at the University of Rochester, the Australian National University and the Australian Graduate School of Management. He joined Queen’s in 1991, and was Graduate Chairman for the Economics Department from 1993 to 1995. In July 2000 he was appointed to the Bank of Montreal Chair in Economics and Finance in the Economics Department. He has papers published in many leading journals in economics and finance, including Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economic Studies, Mathematical Finance, Mathematical Economics, Management Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, Economic Theory. He is the author of Finance Theory and Asset Pricing, published by Oxford University Press in 1995; and published in an expanded second edition in 2002. Milne is a member of the editorial board of Mathematical Finance and Annals of Finance. Milne has had a long-term interest in university financing and policy issues. He was involved in the Australian debate on university reform in the 1980s.
James Milway is the Executive Director of the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity. The Institute is an independent, not-for-profit organization that deepens public understanding of macro and microeconomic factors behind Ontario's economic progress. It is funded by the Government of Ontario and is mandated to share research findings directly with the public. The Institute's primary purpose is to serve as the research arm of the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress. He brings more than 25 years of business and public policy experience to the Institute. He began his career in marketing management with General Foods (now Kraft) and Unilever. For most of his career he has consulted to senior decision makers in areas of business strategy as a partner in The Canada Consulting Group and The Boston Consulting Group, and in his own firm. He has also served as CEO of a specialized insurance firm. In the public policy area he has advised the Government of Ontario in its technology centre program, assessed the potential impact of Canada/US Free Trade in services, and advised central agencies and line ministries on management and accountability issues. At the federal level his work was primarily in the areas of culture and communications. He graduated from the University of Toronto, St Michael's College with a bachelor's degree in Political Economy and the University of Western Ontario with an MBA (Dean's List). Claire M. Morris is President and CEO of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. Prior to joining the AUCC, in April of 2004, she was deputy minister of intergovernmental affairs in the Privy Council Office of Canada. Ms. Morris joined the government of Canada in December 1998, serving as associate deputy minister and deputy minister of Human Resources Development Canada, deputy minister of Labour and concurrently chairperson of the Canada Employment Insurance Commission. Prior to joining the federal government, she served as New Brunswick’s highest ranking civil servant as secretary to the Cabinet and clerk of the Executive Council. She was a member of New Brunswick’s civil service since 1970, holding a series of progressively senior positions in both policy and operational areas, including deputy minister of Health and Community Services and deputy minister of the Policy Secretariat. She has a longstanding interest in the well-being of Canada’s universities. She served as a member of the board of governors of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick and chaired the university’s strategic planning committee. She has also served in an advisory capacity for the school of public administration at Dalhousie University; the faculty of social work at Université de Moncton, and the faculty of administration at the University of New Brunswick. She served as chair and member of the Maritime Rhodes Scholarship selection committee, and has also chaired the selection committee for women’s doctoral scholarships in New Brunswick. She currently serves on the Boards of various organizations, including : the Canadian Labour and Business Centre, the Directing Group of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Commission of the American Council on Education, the International Commission of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, and the Advisory Panel of Australia Education International. Ian Orchard was appointed Principal of the University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM) on July 1, 2002. As a result of the approved Framework for a New Structure of Academic Administration for the Three Campuses, the title was expanded to Vice-President and Principal in September 2002.Having completed his doctorate at the University of Birmingham and five years as research fellow at York University, Professor Orchard joined the University of Toronto in 1982 as a faculty member in the Department of Zoology. A highly accomplished researcher in the study of insect neurobiology, he has also gained considerable experience in senior administration, having served as Associate Dean, Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science from 1993-97, Vice-Dean in 1997-98, and Vice-Provost, Students from 1998-2002. As Vice-Provost, Students – a portfolio that he virtually created – Professor Orchard chaired the committee that developed the University’s policy of guaranteed funding packages for doctoral-stream graduate students, a policy that he also worked tirelessly to implement. He was also instrumental in improving the University’s recruitment programming, in developing a highly accountable and effective student aid program, and in forging very productive linkages within the student affairs portfolio. Throughout all of this, he earned credibility and great respect from the University’s student leaders and remains strongly committed to the needs of students. As Vice-President and Principal, Professor Orchard is leading the University of Toronto of Mississauga into a period of unprecedented enrolment and capital growth, and he is strongly committed to ensuring that UTM fully achieves its potential during this time. It is his intention that UTM will build and maintain a critical mass of faculty, staff and students that will enhance the vitality of the campus, and enable it not only to offer outstanding programs in the core disciplines, but also to develop more innovative interdisciplinary programs building on the strength of its community. UTM recently restructured into a Division of the University of Toronto, creating 14 new departments and one institute. Capital projects under way include a new residence, an Athletics and Wellness facility, and the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre. Stephen Parker has been Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President of Monash University since June 2003, and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Senior Vice-President since October 2004, having previously served as the Dean of Law for four and a half years. He graduated with honours in Law from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Wales. He is admitted to legal practice in England and Wales and Australia. Professor Parker taught at University College Cardiff, The Australian National University and Griffith University before moving to Monash in 1999. He has published books or monographs on the history of marriage law, the law relating to unmarried cohabitation, children's rights and legal ethics. He is the co-author of a textbook called Law in Context, which is designed to introduce law students to the way that other disciplines view law, and of Australian Family Law in Context. Professor Parker has held various major research grants in relation to projects on legal ethics, family law, judicial independence and reform of civil procedure. He is currently a member of the Board of the Australia Centre Berlin and the Professional Ethics Committee of the Law Council of Australia. He is an academic auditor for the Australian Universities Quality Agency. Gilles G. Patry is the University of Ottawa's fourth Rector since a 1965 reorganisation allowed it to join the ranks of Ontario's provincially-assisted universities. Not only is he the first locally born and educated CEO of the 153-year-old institution, he is also the first to have extensive private-sector experience. That experience proved invaluable when Dr. Patry spearheaded efforts to create the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), a massive interdisciplinary project designed to provide leading-edge information technology research and education at the University of Ottawa. He is a proud alumnus of the University of Ottawa, where he earned BASc and MASc degrees in civil engineering in 1971 and 1973, respectively. In 1971, Dr. Patry began his professional life as a consulting engineer prior to becoming a civil engineering professor at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal (1978) and at McMaster University 1983-1993). In 1983, he added a PhD in civil engineering from the University of California, Davis. In 1985, he founded Hydromantis Inc., an international consulting firm specializing in the modelling and simulation of water and waste water treatment facilities. In 1993, he returned to the University of Ottawa as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. He was appointed Vice-Rector (academic) in 1997, and Rector and Vice-Chancellor in August 2001. He specialises in the field of modelling, simulation and control of environmental systems, in general, and of wastewater treatment plants, in particular. He is the author of more than 125 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. In 2002, he was elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering.
Susan Pfeiffer is Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is a member of both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, and is the recipient of an Arts & Science award for outstanding teaching. A graduate of the University of Iowa, she received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her research in biological anthropology focuses on the reconstruction of past human adaptations, including southern African foragers and Canadian horticulturists. She also works to improve methods for estimating age at death from the human skeleton. She is a research associate of the University of Cape Town; she has served as research advisor to 25 graduate students. She has published one authored and three edited books, 18 book chapters and fifty refereed journal articles, and has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Her most recent book, co-edited with R.W.Williamson, is Bones of the Ancestors: The Archaeology and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Site (2003), published by the Canadian Museum of Civilization. J. Robert S. Prichard is President and Chief Executive Officer of Torstar Corporation. Torstar is a leading Canadian media company with two major businesses: newspapers led by Canada’s largest daily, the Toronto Star and book publishing led by Harlequin Enterprises. Prior to joining Torstar , Mr. Prichard served as President of the University of Toronto from 1990-2000 where he is now President Emeritus. He joined the University as a professor at the Faculty of Law in 1976 and served as its Dean from 1984-1990. He has also taught at Harvard (1983-84, 2000-01) and Yale (1982-83) Law Schools. As a scholar, Mr. Prichard’s specialized in the field of law and economics. In higher education, Mr. Prichard served as Chairman of the Council of Ontario Universities, a member of the Board of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, a member of the Board of the International Association of Universities and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Asociation of American Universities. In 2002 he received the David Smith Award for contributions to public policy in higher education. At present, he is a trustee of the Ontario Innovation Trust and Chairman of the Visiting Committee of Harvard Law School. Mr. Prichard is an Officer of the Order of Canada (1994) and a Member of the Order of Ontario (2000). W. Craig Riddell is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are in labour economics, labour relations and public policy. Current research is focused on unemployment and labour market dynamics, the role of human capital in economic growth, experimental and nonexperimental approaches to the evaluation of social programs, unionization and collective bargaining, unemployment insurance and social assistance, and skill formation, education and training. He is co-author (with Dwayne Benjamin and Morley Gunderson) of Labour Market Economics: Theory, Evidence in Canada, the leading Canadian labour economics textbook, and he has authored numerous articles on unemployment and labour market dynamics. Professor Riddell is former Head of the Department of Economics at UBC, former Academic Co-Chair of the Canadian Employment Research Forum, and Past-President of the Canadian Economics Association. He currently holds a Royal Bank Faculty Research Professorship at UBC. Arthur Ripstein is a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was appointed to the Department of Philosophy in 1987, promoted to full professor in 1996, and appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1999. He was Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton in 1995-96, and held a Connaught fellowship in the spring term of 2000. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, a degree in law from Yale, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba. Professor Ripstein's research and teaching interests include torts, Criminal law, legal theory, and political philosophy. In addition to numerous articles in legal theory and political philosophy, he is the author of Equality, Responsibility and the Law (1999) and co-editor of Law and Morality (1996, second edition 2001), and Preference and Practical Reason (2001). He is an associate editor of Ethics, serves on the editorial board of Legal Theory, and is Advisory Editor of the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. His popular work has appeared in the Globe and Mail and on Ideas on CBC Radio One. Steven J. Rosenstone received his summa cum laude B.A. degree from Washington University in 1973 and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1979 from the University of California, Berkeley. As a professor at Yale University, he established a national reputation as an expert in electoral politics. In 1986, he was recruited to the University of Michigan, where he served as professor, program director for the Center for Political Studies, and director of the National Election Studies—a National Science Foundation-designated national resource in the social sciences. He is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In October 1996, Rosenstone became dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. He has recruited more than 270 outstanding new faculty, bringing to Minnesota world-class scholars and artists who have helped secure top national rankings for many of the college’s programs. Under his leadership, the college has launched several new interdisciplinary research centers and initiatives, including the Institute for Advanced Study, the Institute for Global Studies, and the New Media Initiative. The quality of undergraduate education has been transformed, producing dramatic growth in student quality, graduation and retention rates, and in the number of applications. Under Rosenstone’s leadership, annual private giving to the college has increased fourfold, providing resources for scholarships, faculty research, and new state-of-the-art facilities. Innovative new partnerships with Minnesota businesses and communities have revitalized college programs and strengthened outreach. Rosenstone has served in a broad range of University-wide leadership roles at Minnesota. He has chaired the Twin Cities Campus Deans’ Council and the University’s Budget Management Task Force and has led the President’s Interdisciplinary Initiative on Arts and Humanities. He has also served on the University’s Budget Advisory Committee, the University’s Strategic Planning Committee, the Cargill-University of Minnesota Partnership Steering Committee, and the planning committee for the President’s Interdisciplinary Initiative on Brain Development. In recognition of his distinguished service to the University of Minnesota, in 2004 he was awarded the McKnight Presidential Leadership Chair. He is currently working on a book entitled Saving Higher Education in America. Pekka Sinervo was named dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science in November 2003. Professor Sinervo joined the University of Toronto in 1990 as an associate professor in the Department of Physics. He was quickly promoted to full professor in 1995 and became chair of the department in 1997. From September 2000 to December 2002, Professor Sinervo served as vice dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science with responsibility for graduate education and research. Under his leadership, the Faculty of Arts and Science became the first academic unit in Canada to implement a guaranteed level of financial support for graduate students. He was named interim dean of the Faculty in May 2003. Professor Sinervo is an internationally respected and prolific scientist who has written or co-written articles in more than 300 refereed publications. His research area is elementary particle physics, with a particular focus on experimental studies of the fundamental forces and constituents of matter. His expertise in the study of heavy quarks led him to establish and lead a very active Canadian research group studying the highest energy matter-antimatter collisions. This collaboration made headlines around the world in 1995, when an international team, including Professor Sinervo’s Canadian research group, discovered the top quark at Fermilab in Illinois. While actively maintaining his own research, Professor Sinervo has served the research community through numerous scientific management roles and on various national and international advisory and review committees. He was chair of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) Subatomic Physics Grant Selection Committee in 1997-98; is chair of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Advisory Committee on the Tri-University Meson Factory (TRIUMF), Canada’s nuclear and particle physics laboratory, and is a member of the NSERC Council on Research Grants as group chair for physics. He received the prestigious Rutherford Medal for Physics in 1996 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999. In 2003 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an honour reserved for no more than one half of one per cent of the society’s membership. Professor Sinervo’s exceptional teaching skills were recognized with a Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award in 1995. He continues to be actively involved in graduate education, working with students exploring particular collisions at the highest energy levels. In 2004, Professor Sinervo was elected senior fellow at U of T’s Massey College, joining a prestigious group representing U of T’s academic and professional interests. As dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, Professor Sinervo oversees Canada’s largest and most comprehensive faculty with 32 academic departments and centres. The Faculty of Arts and Science is home to 22,000 students and 800 faculty members teaching 2,000 courses in over 300 undergraduate and 70 graduate programs. He will serve as dean until June 30, 2009. Andrew A. Sorensen was named the 27th president of the University of South Carolina (USC) in May 2002, after serving as president of the University of Alabama (1996-2002) and provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Florida (1990-1996). Dr. Sorensen has also served as executive director of the AIDS Institute at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and director of the School of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been a faculty member at Lincoln University, the University of Rochester, and Cornell University. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at the Harvard University School of Medicine and the University of Cambridge School of Medicine. Author or editor of seven books and more than 100 articles, Dr. Sorensen has focused his work on health policy, health services research, and epidemiology. He is professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at USC's Arnold School of Public Health. He holds a bachelor's degree in ethics and master's and doctoral degrees in medical sociology from Yale University. He also earned a B.A. in history from the University of Illinois and a master of public health degree from the University of Michigan. Dr. Sorensen's awards include the University of Florida Student Government Association's "Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Government," Yale University Divinity School's Alumni Association "Award for Distinguished Community Service," and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Alabama Chapter's "Legacy of the Dreamer Award." He is immediate-past president of the Southern University Conference, past chair of the Southern Universities Research Association Council of Presidents, vice president of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and a trustee of the Universities Research Association. He served as a member of the U.S. DHHS' Public Health Task Force on AIDS, the Education Advisory Committee for President Bush's Transition Team during 2000-2001, and was appointed in 2001 to DHHS Secretary Tommy Thompson's Council on Public Health Preparedness. Lorne Sossin is Associate Dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where he has been on faculty since 2002. His teaching and research interests include administrative law, social policy, public administration, legal process and poverty law. Prior to this appointment, he was a member of the faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, where he continues to serve as co-director of the LL.M. program in administrative law. Professor Sossin is a former law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada, a former Associate in Law at Columbia Law School and a former litigation lawyer with the firm of Borden & Elliot (now Borden Ladner Gervais). He holds doctorates from the University of Toronto in Political Science and from Columbia University in Law. Professor Sossin serves on the Board of the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Ontario Justice Education Network and the Income Security Advocacy Centre. He is the author of Boundaries of Judicial Review: the Law of Justiciability in Canada (Toronto: Carswell, 1999), co-author of Public Law (Toronto: Carswell, 2002) (with Michael Bryant) and is the general editor of Barristers and Solicitors in Practice (Toronto: Butterworths, looseleaf). Mark Stabile is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Centre for Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Toronto. He also holds positions as an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences and is a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge Massachusetts. In 2002-03 he was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. He is currently the Senior Policy Advisor to the Ontario Minister of Finance. His research interests include health economics, public finance, and the economics of child development. His recent work focuses on the public/private mix in the financing of health care, tax policy and health insurance, and socio-economic status and the health of children. His recent publications include “Private Insurance Subsidies and Public Health Care Markets: Evidence from Canada” in the Canadian Journal of Economics, “Socio-economic Status and Child Health: Why is the Gradient Stronger for Older Children,” with Janet Currie, in the American Economic Review, and “What Do Objective Measures of Health Really Measure?” forthcoming in the Journal of Human Resources.
Arthur Sweetman is the Director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, and he holds the Stauffer-Dunning Chair in Policy Studies. Although Policy Studies is his “home”, he also holds appointments in the Departments of Economics, and Community Health and Epidemiology. Dr. Sweetman holds a Doctorate in Economics from McMaster University. He first taught at the University of Victoria and then moved to Queen's University in 2000. Before studying economics full time he worked in industry as an engineer and he has a B.Eng., with a minor in computer science. His research interests focus primarily on economic issues related to social policy, the labour market and health. Recent research topics include education, immigration, health policy, poverty, unemployment insurance (employment insurance), program evaluation and microfinance. Michael J. Trebilcock, is University Professor and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He was a Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School in 1976, a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School in 1985, and a Global Law Professor at New York University Law School in 1997 and 1999. In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was appointed a University Professor in 1990. He was awarded the Owen Prize in 1989 by the Foundation for Legal Research for his book, The Common Law of Restraint of Trade, which was chosen as the best law book in English published in Canada in the previous two years. He has since authored The Limits of Freedom of Contract and co-authored The Regulation of International Trade; Exploring the Domain of Accident Law: Taking the Facts Seriously; The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy, and The Law and Economics of Canadian Competition Policy. He serves as Director of the Law and Economics Programme at the University of Toronto. In 1999, Professor Trebilcock received an Honorary Doctorate in Laws from McGill University and was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the same year he was elected an Honorary Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Law from the Law Society of Upper Canada. Carolyn Tuohy is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and is currently Vice-President, Government and Institutional Relations, of the University of Toronto. She holds a B.A. from the University of Toronto, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. Her area of research and teaching interest is comparative public policy, with an emphasis on social policy. Her most recent book is Accidental Logics: the Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena in the United States, Britain and Canada (Oxford University Press 1999). She is also the author of Policy and Politics in Canada: Institutionalized Ambivalence (Temple University Press 1992), a treatment of Canadian public policy in comparative perspective. In addition she is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters in the areas of health and social policy, professional regulation, and comparative approaches in public policy. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.
Melissa Williams teaches political theory at the University of Toronto. She is author of Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (Princeton, 1998), and co-editor (with Patrick Hanafin) of Identity, Rights, and Constitutional Transformation (Ashgate, 1999). She serves as Editor of NOMOS, the Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy; forthcoming volumes include Political Exclusion and Domination, Humanitarian Intervention, and Toleration and Its Limits. Williams is author of articles on issues in contemporary democratic theory and the history of political thought, ranging across the themes of citizenship, deliberative democracy, toleration, education, Aboriginal rights, feminist theory, representation, and affirmative action. Currently, she is working on two book projects, Equality and Reconstructing Impartiality. Ross Williams is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne. He was Dean of the university’s Faculty of Economics and Commerce from 1994 to 2002 and Professor of Econometrics (1975-2002). He is member of the Commonwealth Grants Commission, the body charged with recommending how Australia’s GST should be allocated to the States. He has also held positions at Monash University, Australian National University and the World Bank. He has a Ph D from the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.His research publications are in areas as diverse as demand and saving, time-use studies, the cost of civil litigation, housing, federal-state finance, and the economics of education. He has been commissioned on several occasions by the federal department of education to provide advice on funding and costing formula, including the development of the Relative Funding Model and the West Report. David A. Wolfe is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Co-Director of the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems (PROGRIS) at the Munk Centre for International Studies. PROGRIS is the node for one of five subnetworks of the Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and serves as the national secretariat for the network. He is National Coordinator of the ISRN and the Principal Investigator on its Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant on Innovation Systems and Economic Development: The Role of Local and Regional Clusters in Canada, a comparative study of twenty-six industrial clusters across Canada. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Science from Carleton University and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. From October, 1990 to August, 1993 he served as Executive Coordinator for Economic and Labour Policy in the Cabinet Office of the Government of Ontario. Upon his return to the University of Toronto from 1993 until 1997, he was a research associate in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Program on Law and the Determinants of Social Ordering. He is editor or co-editor of six books, most recently, Clusters in a Cold Climate: Innovation Dynamics in a Diverse Economy, from McGill-Queen’s University Press, and numerous scholarly articles. In 2003, he co-authored a report on Community Participation and Multilevel Governance in Economic Development Policy for the Government of Ontario's Panel on the Role of Government. Back to the president's home page
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