Fellows
Honorary Distinguished Fellows
Honourary Distinguished Fellows are leaders in public policy and civil society who have made significant contributions to the fields of public policy and governance.
The Right Honourable Jean聽Chr茅tien
Former Prime Minister of Canada
The Honourable Anne McLellan
Senior Advisor at Bennett Jones LLP
Former Minister of Health
Darrell Dexter
Vice Chair, Global Public Affairs
Former Premier of Nova Scotia
Founding Fellows
The Founding Fellows play an important role in shaping the Institute鈥檚 agenda and profile, and ensuring it becomes the 鈥榞o-to鈥� place for policy discussion and analysis regionally and nationally.
James Barker
Herbert S. Lamb Chair of Business Education, Rowe School of Business
Ajay Parasram
Assistant Professor, Departments of International Development Studies and History
Sara Kirk
Professor of Health Promotion, Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute
Sheila Wildeman
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Law
Jacqueline Gahagan
Professor of Health Promotion, Faculty of Health
Ahsan Habib
Professor, School of Planning
Ren Thomas
Assistant Professor, School of Planning
Larry Hughes
Professor,聽Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Junior Fellows
Junior Fellows contribute to the research, goals and learning culture of the Institute. They work with the institute to support the development of progressive public policy and encourage greater citizen engagement.
Note: Titles are listed as they were at the time of appointment.
MD Jahedul Alam
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Resource Engineering (2019-2020)
Keisha Jefferies
PhD Candidate, School of Nursing听(2019-2020)
Melina Kourantidou
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ocean Frontier Institute聽(2019-2020)
Michael Mackley
MD Candidate, Dalhousie Medical School (2019-2020)
Julia Rodgers
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science聽(2019-2020)
Tari Ajadi
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science (2018-2019)
Joy Shand
MA Candidate, Department of History聽(2018-2019)
Rachel McLay
MA Candidate, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology聽(2018-2019)
Bayo Majekolagbe
JD Candidate, Schulich School of Law聽(2018-2019)
Tristan Cleveland
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science聽(2018-2019)
Brittany Barber
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health聽(2017-2018)
Andrew Lam
MA Candidate, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology聽(2017-2018)