Broadbent Fellows & Friends

Frances Abele is Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor Emerita in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.

Jennifer Clapp is a Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Miles Corak is a Senior Scholar with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality and Professor of Economics at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Roy Culpeper is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies, Adjunct Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton…

On Marie Della Mattia’s first job as a campaign volunteer, she spent two days silk-screening black and orange lawn signs on a neighbour’s driveway. It was 1972, and she was…

Mustafa Farooq is the former CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). He has worked at Google in a Strategy & Operations role and previously served as a…

Peter Graefe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.

Brendan Haley is the Policy Director of Efficiency Canada, a research and advocacy organization for an energy-efficient economy that he helped establish in 2018.

Alex Himelfarb is a former Clerk of the Privy Council and currently chairs or serves on numerous voluntary sector boards. He was also the Director of the Glendon School of…

Andrew Jackson is a labour economist and was previously the Broadbent Institute’s Senior Policy Advisor. In September, 2012 he retired from a long career as Chief Economist and Director of…

Saba is an experienced multilingual writer and organizer, creating media to deliver results for New Democrats across the country.

As a progressive activist and organizer, Dhananjai Kohli’s focus has always been on creating grassroots networks as one part of affecting social change.

Named one of the Hill Times Top 100 Lobbyists for 2022, Brad Lavigne has over 25 years of communications, government relations, and political experience.

Marc Lavoie is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He is also an IMK Research…

Jordan Leichnitz is an Ottawa-based political consultant with two decades of experience in progressive political strategy and campaigns at the federal, provincial and municipal level.

Patti Tamara Lenard is Professor of Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the moral questions raised by migration across borders,…

Megan Leslie is President & CEO of World Wildlife Fund-Canada. Prior to that, she was a Member of Parliament representing Halifax for two terms during which she was deputy leader…

Anne Levesque is an Associate Professor in the French Common Law Program at the University of Ottawa

Angella MacEwen is a Senior Economist at CUPE National. Her primary focus is understanding the impacts of Canadian economic and social policy on workers, especially climate policy and international trade…

Minelle Mahtani is a Muslim, South-Asian and Iranian scholar, writer, broadcaster and teacher. She is currently head of Canadian Studies at UBC where she also teaches in Gender, Race, Sexuality…

Dave McGrane is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at St. Thomas More College and the University of Saskatchewan. He has written extensively on the NDP and Canadian social democracy.…

Trevor McKenzie-Smith owns and operates a consulting company where he works with Indigenous organizations & governments, trade unions, provincial & municipal governments, political candidates and civil society organizations.

For more than a decade, Erin Morrison has led communications, advised and trained political leaders at the House of Commons, Queen’s Park and across the country at the municipal, provincial…

Val Napoleon has been a community activist and consultant in northwestern British Columbia for more than 25 years, specializing in health, education and justice issues.

Jen Pedersen, PhD works at the intersection of politics and policy. Currently Senior Legislative and Policy Advisor to NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Heather McPherson, Jen has spent a decade advising…

Ana María Peredo is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and a Professor of Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa.

Michael J. Prince is the Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy at the University of Victoria.

Dr. Danyaal Raza is a family physician with Unity Health Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, and an Assistant Professor with the University of Toronto.

Michael Roy is a communications professional and digital strategist who specializes in working with movements and causes to engage and mobilize their supporters.

Anna Stanley is Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics. Her research focuses on the political economy of settler colonialism in Canada…

Jodie Tonita supports leaders to cultivate powerful ideas and innovative solutions that unlock the challenges of our times. She’s an innovator with thirty-plus years in wide-ranging roles as an executive, strategist, producer,…

Ethel Tungohan is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Politics at York University and a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Canadian Migrant Policy, Impacts, and Activism. Her work…

Leah F. Vosko, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York…

Jon Weier is a historian of war and society writing on the history of the YMCA during the First World War. He also writes and lectures on Canadian identity and…

Margot Young is professor in the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. After studying at UBC, the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley,…