JSGS Faculty
Ken Acton Executive-in-Residence , U of R
Areas of Interest: Public administration , Board governance , Government structure , Executive leadership and mentorship
Michael Atkinson PhD, MA, BA Professor Emeritus
Areas of Interest: Structure of government , Political economy of public policy , Ethics and corruption
Loleen Berdahl PhD, BA Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Canadian politics , Research methodology , Political theory
Beth R.E. Bilson PhD, MA, BA, LLB Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Labour and administrative law
Dr. Michael Boda PhD, D.Phil Policy Fellows
Areas of Interest: Public administration , Law and assessment
Martin Boucher PhD (candidate), MA, BSc JSGS Faculty , U of S
Areas of Interest: Cities and Climate Change , Sustainability Transitions , Energy Sustainability , Northern Energy Transitions , Public Policy and Decentralized Energy , Energy Justice
Yvonne Boyer Adjunct Professors
Areas of Interest: Indigenous health and wellness
Joel Bruneau PhD Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: International Trade , Environmental Economics , Resource Economics , Water Resource Economics , Industrial Structure
Cheryl Camillo PhD, MPA, BA JSGS Faculty , U of R
Areas of Interest: Comparative health policy , Health system reform , Canadian and U.S. public policy , Federalism , Social policy implementation , Inequality and inequity , Public administration , Health administration
David Castle Adjunct Professors
Areas of Interest: Ethics and governance of bioproducts and crops
Alana Cattapan PhD, MA, B.Soc.Sc. Adjunct Professors
Areas of Interest: Public engagement in policy-making , Reproductive justice , Health policy , Reproductive biotechnology , Gender and public policy , Science and innovation policy
Brian Christie Associate Members , U of R
Areas of Interest: Mathematics, physics and economics , strategic planning, government-university relations, strategic enrolment management, and university administration.
Douglas A. Clark PhD, MSc, BSc Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Polar bear-human conflicts , Decision-making under conditions of rapid social-ecological change , Wildlife and protected area management , Environmental governance and policy processes
Lisa Clark PhD, MA, BA Professional Affiliates , U of S
Areas of Interest: Food technology & policy , Risk governance , Social perceptions of risk , Food labels , Food security , GM foods , Food & agricultural movements
Ken Coates PhD, MA, BA JSGS Faculty , U of S
Areas of Interest: Regional innovation , University education and higher education generally , Aboriginal rights and land claims , Science and technology policy , Japan and Canada-Asia relations , Northern governance and development, and circumpolar affairs
John C. Courtney PhD, MA, BA, DLitt, MBA Policy Fellows
Areas of Interest: Canadian and comparative: parties and elections , Electoral reform , Electoral systems , Franchise , Voter registration , Electoral administration , Boundary readjustments , Redistribution and redistricting , Leadership conventions
Jeremy de Beer Adjunct Professors
Areas of Interest: Intellectual property , Biotechnology , Information communications issues
Kalowatie Deonandan PhD, MA, BA Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Mining and Development in Latin America , Women and Mining , Women and Nuclear , Resource development in Latin America , Canadian foreign policy , The promotion of Canada's resource industries overseas
Robert Dobrohoczki Professional Affiliates
Bruno Dupeyron PhD, MA, BA, LLB JSGS Faculty , U of R
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics , Multilevel governance , Processes of regional integration , Public action in the international and transnational fields , Border governance , Strategies of institutional building in the European Union, NAFTA and the Mercosur , Immigration policy
Len Edwards PhD, MA Policy Fellows
Policy Fellow, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy; Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation
Jennifer Ehrmantraut CEC, CPA, CMA, CLYL Executive-in-Residence , U of R
Areas of Interest: Leadership , Strategic planning , Infrastructure planning , Public administration
Dale Eisler MA, BA Policy Fellows
Areas of Interest: Policy/communications interface , Economic and fiscal policy , Energy and environment , Canada-U.S. relations
Brett Fairbairn PhD, BA Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor
Areas of Interest: Governance and innovation in non-profit enterprises , Membership, participation, and organizational identity , History of democracy and democratic movements , Co-operatives in the new economy
Jim Farney Associate Members , U of R
Areas of Interest: Canadian party politics , Political institutions , Religion and politics
Blaine Favel LLB, MBA Policy Fellows
Policy Fellow, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy; CEO, One Earth Oil and Gas Inc.
Kevin Fenwick LLB Executive-in-Residence , U of R
Areas of Interest: Working with and learning from Indigenous cultures , Public engagement in government , Collaborative and interest-based problem-solving , Innovation in government processes and programs
Dan Florizone MBA, BComm Executive-in-Residence , U of S
Areas of Interest: Health administration , Lean practices , Policy deployment , Large scale change , Performance measurement, development and design , Intersectoral initiatives , Citizen-centred approaches , Team engagement in problem-solving
Murray Fulton PhD, MSc, BA, BSA Director and Professor, JSGS
Areas of Interest: Behavioural economics , Governance , Co-operatives and the social economy , Agricultural and resource policy
Joseph Garcea PhD, MPA, MA, BA Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Local government , Public administration , Public policy analysis
Konstantinos Giannakas PhD, MSc, D.S.P.U., B.Sc. Adjunct Professors
Areas of Interest: Food system innovation , Food and agricultural policy
Don Gilchrist PhD Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Regional economic structure , Urban economics , Public economics
Richard S. Gray PhD, MSc, BSA Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Economics of innovation , Grain marketing , Science policy
Louise Greenberg PhD, MSc, BSc Executive-in-Residence , U of R
Areas of Interest: Public administration , Machinery of government , Food policy and science , Agriculture , Crisis management
Christopher (Chris) Gunter PhD, M.Phil, B.B.A. JSGS Faculty , U of S
Areas of Interest: Public participation , Democratic deliberation , Arts management , Creative and cultural industries , Public institutions , Discourse and knowledge , Interdisciplinary approaches , Cultural studies , Critical cultural policy , Cultural heritage and identity , Museums and cultural policy , Ecomuseums
Robert E. Hawkins DCL, LLM, LLB, MA, BA JSGS Faculty , U of R
Areas of Interest: Administrative law (public inquiries, bias, standards of review) , Constitutional law (crown prerogative and conventions) , Post-secondary education policy
Harvey Hill Adjunct Professors
Areas of Interest: Agricultural economics , Climate change , Infrastructure risk management and resilience
Jill. E. Hobbs PhD, MA, B.Sc. (Econ) Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Food safety , Quality and traceability , Supply chain relationships in the agri-food sector , Consumer behaviour
Margot Hurlbert PhD, LLB, LLM, BAdmin JSGS Faculty , U of R
Areas of Interest: Law , Energy Policy , Environment, climate change, water, and sustainability , Adaptive governance , Risk and decision-making
Tarun Katapally PhD, MSc, MBBS JSGS Faculty , U of R
Areas of Interest: Digital epidemiology , Citizen science , Community-based participatory research , Systems science , Population health policy interventions , Active living policy , Indigenous health , Child and youth health , Health policy , Health geography , Computational epidemiology , Mixed-methods , Integrated knowledge translation
Sylvan Katz MSc, BSc, D.Phil Adjunct Professors , U of S
Areas of Interest: Science and innovation systems
Bob Kayseas PhD, MBA, BA Associate Members , U of R
Associate Member, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy; Associate Vice-President, Academic, First Nations University of Canada
William Kerr Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Commercial policy , International trade
Lou Hammond Ketilson PhD, BA, MBA Adjunct Professors , U of S
Areas of Interest: Science, technology and innovation policy , Use of complexity science to inform public policy and evaluation methods of complex innovation and science systems , Bibliometric indicators with a specific emphasis on scale-independent measures
Neal Kewistep MPA, BA Executive-in-Residence , U of S
Areas of Interest: Health administration , Health care systems , Indigenous health and communities
Iryna Khovrenkov PhD, MA, BA JSGS Faculty , U of R
Areas of Interest: Economics of charities , Foundation and leadership giving , Applied microeconomics , Public economics and tax policy
Jerome Konecsni MA, BA, BEd, PhD (h.c.) Executive-in-Residence , U of S
Areas of Interest: Innovation - entire spectrum from practice policy , Agricultural innovation , Communications as it relates to Leadership, Management and Governance , Governance , Entrepreneurship , Managing the Supply Chain
James Leach Professional Affiliates
Areas of Interest: International trade development , International business
Wallace Lockhart PhD, FCMA, CMA, MBA, BComm Associate Members , U of R
Areas of Interest: Health systems research
Justin Longo PhD, MPA, BA JSGS Faculty , U of R
Areas of Interest: Digital governance , Open governance , Computer-supported collaboration , Big data for policy making , Environmental sustainability
Greg Marchildon PhD, MA, BA, JD Adjunct Professors
Areas of Interest: Canadian public policy and economic history , Evolution of public health care in Canada , Political, administrative and economic history of postwar Saskatchewan , Public health care policy in Canada and other advanced industrialized nations and comparative health systems
Jim Marshall MA, BA Executive-in-Residence , U of R
Areas of Interest: Public finance , Labour economics , Economics of education
Dion Martens PhD Professional Affiliates , U of S
Professional Affiliate, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan; Executive Officer, Office of the Vice-President Research, University of Saskatchewan
David McGrane PhD Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Canadian, Saskatchewan and Quebec politics
Tom McIntosh Associate Members , U of R
Associate Member, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina; Professor and Department Head, Department of Politics and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Regina
Kathleen McNutt PhD, MA, BA (hon) JSGS Professor, and U of R Associate Vice-President (Research) and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research
Areas of Interest: Digital government , Social Media , Policy Analysis , Program Evaluation
Heather McWhinney Professional Affiliates
Hans Michelmann PhD Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics (Western Europe) , European integration , Comparative public policy and administration
M. Rose Olfert MSc, BA Professor Emerita and MIT Program Coordinator
Areas of Interest: Public policy , Rural/regional economics , Rural-urban interdependence , People-based vs. Place-based policy , Rural economic restructuring , Resource based economies
Peter W.B. Phillips PhD, MSc, BA JSGS Faculty , U of S
Areas of Interest: Science, technology and innovation policy , International political economy , Regulation, governance and trade policy , Decision making theory and behavioural experimentation
Marc-André Pigeon PhD, MA, BA Assistant Professor, JSGS U of S campus; Director and Strategic Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
Areas of Interest: Co-operatives , Behavioural economics and psychology , Money, banking and the financial sector , Fiscal and monetary policy
Ken Rasmussen PhD, MPA, BA Director and Professor, JSGS
Areas of Interest: Public enterprise management , Administrative reform , Administrative history , Non-profit organizations , Ethics and leadership , Provincial politics
Jeremy Rayner PhD, MA Professor
Areas of Interest: Global forest governance , Resource, environmental and energy policies , Policy theory (especially institutionalism and problems of policy change)
Wayne Robinson Professional Affiliates
Roy Romanow BA, LLB Policy Fellows , U of S
Policy Fellow, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
Peggy Schmeiser PhD, MA, BA, BSc JSGS Faculty , U of S
Areas of Interest: Secularism/Religion law and policy , Science and innovation policy , Culture and heritage policy
Elizabeth Schwartz PhD, MA, BPAPM Adjunct Professors
Areas of Interest: Local government and governance , Climate change and environmental policy , Energy policy , Qualitative research methodology
Sanjeev Singh Professional Affiliates
Kara Somerville PhD, MA, BA Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Globalization , Immigration , Transnational practices , Race and ethnic relations , Family
Jacquie Thomarat PhD Professional Affiliates , U of S
Professional Affiliate, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan (USask); Director, Resource Allocation and Planning, Institutional Planning and Assessment, USask
John Whyte BA, LLB, LLM, LLD Policy Fellows
Chelsea Willness PhD Associate Members , U of S
Areas of Interest: Social/environmental responsibility and organizational reputation , Non-profit governance , Student engagement and experiential learning , Community partnerships and stakeholder engagement , Attracting, selecting, and retaining talent , Leadership and sustainability
Gary N. Wilson PhD Adjunct Professors , U of S
Areas of Interest: Arctic politics and governance , Impacts of global processes and change on communities
Brian Wixted PhD Adjunct Professors
Areas of Interest: A long interest in the idea of structural analysis of the evolution of the global economy (see Springer 2009) , Adoption of new digital technologies in specific economic settings (especially mining and agriculture) , 21st Century disrupted innovation policy – adapting to the cyber-economy as much as simply promoting firms to create “innovation”
Yang Yang PhD, MSc, B.Sc. JSGS Faculty , U of S
Areas of Interest: Consumer behaviour , Food economics , Experimental economics , Food policy
May Yeung BA, MBA Professional Affiliates , U of S
Areas of Interest: International economics , Export policy , GMO regulations , International trade agreements
Amy Zarzeczny BA, LLB, LLM JSGS Faculty , U of R
Areas of Interest: Health law , Health and science policy , Governance of emerging, unproven and experimental medical interventions and biomedical technologies , Medical tourism