About the Broadbent Institute

Broadbent Fellows & Friends

Broadbent Research and Leadership Fellows are a diverse, multidisciplinary group of distinguished scholars, policy experts, and leaders that inform the Institute’s research and training agenda. The contribution of their knowledge and experiences help to further the Institute’s efforts to impact public debate and progressive change.

Broadbent Fellows contribute regularly to the Institute by

Broadbent Research Fellows have expertise in the areas of political economy, public policy, as well as social democratic history and theory.

Broadbent Leadership Fellows have expertise in the areas of campaign development and strategy, communications, fundraising, government relations, public policy, and effective people leadership.

Friends of the Broadbent Institute recognizes previous contributors to the Institute’s research and activities. They continue to expand the Institute’s vast network of leaders and thinkers.

Broadbent Fellows

  • Frances Abele

    Frances Abele

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    she/her

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

  • Jennifer Clapp

    Jennifer Clapp

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    she/her

    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

    Miles Corak

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    he/him

    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

    Roy Culpeper

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    he/him

    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…

  • Marie Della Mattia

    Marie Della Mattia

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    she/her

    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

    Mustafa Farooq

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    he/him

    Mustafa Farooq is the former CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). A lawyer by profession, Mustafa completed his Juris Doctor at the University of Alberta and Osgoode…

  • Peter Graefe

    Peter Graefe

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    he/him

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

  • Brendan Haley

    Brendan Haley

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    he/him

    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

    Alex Himelfarb

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    he/him

    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

    Andrew Jackson

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    He/him

    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 Javed

    Saba Javed

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    she/her

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

  • Dhananjai Kohli

    Dhananjai Kohli

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    he/him

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

  • Brad Lavigne

    Brad Lavigne

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    he/him

    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

    Marc Lavoie

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    he/him

    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

    Jordan Leichnitz

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    She/her

    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 Lenard

    Patti Lenard

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    she/her

    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

    Megan Leslie

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    she/her

    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

    Anne Levesque

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    she/her

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

  • Angella MacEwen

    Angella MacEwen

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    she/her

    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

    Minelle Mahtani

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    she/her

    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

    Dave McGrane

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    he/him

    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.…

  • Erin Morrison

    Erin Morrison

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    she/her

    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

    Val Napoleon

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    she/her

    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.

  • Jennifer Pederson

    Jennifer Pederson

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    She/her

    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

    Ana María Peredo

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    she/her

    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

    Michael J. Prince

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    he/him

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

  • Danyaal Raza

    Danyaal Raza

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    he/him

    Dr. Danyaal Raza is a community family physician and holds a Masters of Public Health from Harvard University with a focus on social determinants of health.

  • Michael Roy

    Michael Roy

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    he/him

    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

    Anna Stanley

    Broadbent Research Fellow

    she/her

    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

    Jodie Tonita

    Broadbent Leadership Fellow

    she/her

    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,…

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