Peter Aucoin
Peter Aucoin is Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Pubic Administration, Dalhousie University. Prior to his retirement he was Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Government and Political Science. He received his university education at Saint Mary's (BA), Dalhousie (MA) and Queen's (PhD). He became a faculty member at Dalhousie University in 1970. He served as Director of the School of Public Administration from 1985 to 1990 and Chair of the Department of Political Science from 1992 to 1995.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Canada School of Public Service. He has served as Research Coordinator, Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada; Research Director, Halifax Commission on City Government; Research Director, Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing; a member of the Peer Review Team for the review of the British Cabinet Office's modernization program; a member of the Clerk of the Privy Council's External Advisory Group on the modernization of human resource management. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 1995-96, he was President of the Canadian Political Science Association. He has been Vice-President of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. He is former co-editor of the Canadian Public Administration book series of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. His 1995 book, The New Public Management: Canada in Comparative Perspective (Institute for Research on Public Policy) was awarded the international Charles Levine Book Prize as the best book in comparative public policy and administration.

He has twice won the J.E. Hodgetts award for the best English language article in Canadian Public Administration. He was awarded the 1999 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Medal for Excellence in Public Administration by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. He was awarded the 2005 Vanier Medal by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada for his exceptional achievement in the field of public administration. He was awarded the 2006 Dalhousie University Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Aucoin was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2007.

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Luc Bernier
Luc Bernier received his Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University in 1989 after studying political Science at Laval University. He is a professor of public policy at École Nationale d'Administration Publique, Université du Québec. He is the codirector of CERGO, a research center on governance and public enterprises. Before his arrival at ENAP, he was a professor of political science at Concordia University. He was Director of Education and Research at l'ENAP from 2001 to 2006.

He has written on public entrepreneurship, public enterprises and privatization, foreign policy, and administrative reform. Recent research includes a comparative analysis of institutional capacity in Ireland and Quebec. He has written extensively on the subject of executive power and leadership, and is the author of numerous publications, monographs, journal articles, contributions to collective works and conferences in Quebec, in Canada and abroad. He has published, among others, De Paris à Washington, co-written The Quebec Democracy and co-edited Executive Styles in Canada.In 2005-06, he was president of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.

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Ian Clark
Ian Clark is professor and advisor at the School of Public Policy and Governance, and Senior Fellow of Massey College. Professor Clark advises and writes on many aspects of public policy and governance in Canada. He serves on the boards of the Ontario Innovation Trust, the Canadian Urban Institute and the editorial board of Canadian Public Administration, chairs Statistics Canadas Advisory Committee on Postsecondary Statistics, and is a member of the internal audit committees of Health Canada and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

He advises the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and other departments, as the government responds to the recommendations in the report, From Red Tape to Clear Results, a report commissioned by the President of the Treasury Board and submitted by Professor Clark and Frances Lankin. Ian Clark and co-author David Trick are the 2007 winners of the J. E. Hodgetts Award for the best article in English appearing in the journal Canadian Public Administration for their paper Advising for impact: lessons from the Rae review on the use of special purpose advisory commissions (Summer, 2006). Professor Clark received a bachelors of science from the University of British Columbia, received a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where he earned a doctorate of philosophy, took a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University, and received an MPP from the Kennedy School of Governments masters in public policy program.

He is the coordinator of the Public Policy and Governance Portal housed in the School of Public Policy and Governance. The Portal serves to create an encyclopedia of the most important concepts in Canadian public policy and governance and facilitate interaction and collaborative projects among practitioners, faculty and students. In 2009 Ian Clark was appointed Chair of the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration Accreditation Board. Recent work has explored the use of web 2.0 tools to specify examinable competencies taught in Canadian public policy and public administration masters programs.

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John Langford
John Langford joined the School of Public Administration at University of Victoria in 1979. Prior to coming to Victoria he worked with the Royal Commission on Financial Management and Accountability and taught political science at York University.

He became a full professor in 1983 and was director of the School from 1987-92. He was a Chief Federal Negotiator in the BC Treaty process from 1993-2001 working mostly with First Nations on Vancouver Island.

In recent years, Professor Langford has taught largely online, designing and delivering courses in the School's Diploma and MPA Online programs. He led the development of Canada's only fully online MPA program.

His life-long commitment to creative and effective teaching has earned him the 2009 Pierre De Celles Award for excellence in teaching in public administration from the Institute of Public Administration in Canada. His research interests include administrative reform and public sector ethics.

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Nancy Olewiler
Nancy Olewiler is a Professor of Public Policy and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University. Her degrees, all in economics, are an Honours B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, M.A. from SFU, and Ph.D. from University of British Columbia in 1975. She came to SFU in 1990 from the Department of Economics at Queen's University.

Nancy is currently teaching policy analysis in the Master's in Public Policy Program. Her research has focused in recent years on sustainability, environmental policy and its impact on the economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and valuing natural capital.

She has published a variety of academic papers, texts and policy studies in the areas of tax policy, natural resources, and environmental economics. Recent publications include "A Cap and Trade System for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in British Columbia", "A Simple Approach for Bettering the Environment and the Economy: Restructuring the Federal Fuel Excise Tax", and "Securing Natural Capital and Ecological Goods and Services for Canada"

From 1990 to 1995 Nancy was Managing Editor of Canadian Public Policy, and from 1996 to 1998 she served as a member of the Federal Government's Technical Committee on Business Taxation. She is a Director of B.C. Hydro and TransLink."