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Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Akaash Maharaj

Senior Fellow

Areas of Expertise

  • Federal Politics, Political Parties, and Elections
  • International Relations, Foreign Affairs, and Diplomacy
  • Political Corruption and Anti-Corruption
  • Sport Ethics, Olympics, and Paralympics
  • War; Peace, and Conflict Resolution

Office: N/A
Mobile: (416) 995 3275
Languages: French
Email: akaash@maharaj.org

Carmen Cheung

Senior Fellow

Executive Director at the Center for Justice and Accountability

Areas of Expertise

  • Human rights and the United States
  • National security law and policy

Office: N/A
Email: carmenk.cheung@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Dan Breznitz

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative politics
  • Economic policy
  • Innovation policy
  • Notion of a fourth industrial revolution
  • Rethinking global production supply chains & manufacturing
  • Trade (Trans-Pacific Partnership)

Office: 416-946-0584
Website
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Darius Ornston

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative politics
  • Innovation policy
  • Institutional development
  • Nordic Europe
  • Politics in industrialized economies
  • Western Europe economies

Office: 647-308-9423
Languages: English
Website
Email: darius.ornston@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Diana Fu

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Chinese politics
  • Contentious Politics and Social Movements
  • International development
  • Labour and Gender
  • Political Ethnography

Office: 416-978-3334
Languages: English
Website
Email: diana.fu@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Dylan Clark

Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental issues
  • Foodways
  • Gender studies
  • Gifts and commodities
  • Indonesia
  • Popular culture
  • Reciprocity
  • Urban studies
  • Youth studies

Office: 416-946-8975
Home: 416-778-9057
Mobile: 647-774-4184
Website
Email: dylan.clark@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Emanuel Adler

Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Andrea & Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies Emeritus

Areas of Expertise

  • International relations theory
  • International security
  • International sociology
  • Israel

Office: 972-547843662
Languages: Hebrew, Spanish
Website
Email: emanuel.adler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Emile Dirks

Research Associate

Areas of Expertise

  • Drug policy in China
  • Human rights in China
  • Policing and detention in China
  • Politics of People's Republic of China
  • State surveillance in China

Office: N/A
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: emile.dirks@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Janice Stein

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Conflict management and resolution
  • Global Politics
  • Great Power Competition
  • Technology and Public Policy

Office: 416-946-8908
Languages: French
Website
Email: j.stein@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

John Robinson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • community engagement and futures studies
  • philosophy of sustainability
  • sustainability transitions and transformations
  • Sustainable Buildings and Cities

Office: 416.918.7977
Languages: English
Website
Email: johnb.robinson@utoronto.ca

Joseph Wong

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Asia
  • Comparative Political Economy
  • Comparative Public Policy
  • Comparative Public Policy, with a Regional Focus on East Asia
  • Democratization
  • Global development
  • Innovation policy
  • Poverty and inequality

Office: 416-946-7955
Languages: English
Website
Email: joe.wong@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mark Manger

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Brazil, Chile, Cuba (economy and politics)
  • International monetary and financial policy
  • Macroeconomic policy
  • Public debt
  • Sanctions
  • Sovereign debt

Office: 416-946-8927
Mobile: 416-877-6236
Languages: English,German,French,Spanish; Castilian,Japanese,Portuguese
Website
Email: mark.manger@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mel Cappe

Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

  • Electoral reform – what are the issues
  • Former High Commissioner to the UK
  • Governance
  • Government
  • Institutions
  • People
  • United Kingdom

Office: 416-978-2875
Mobile: 647-981-7666
Languages: French
Email: mel.cappe@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Rick Halpern

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Capitalism
  • History of Photography and Visual Culture
  • Labor History
  • Social History

Office: (416) 208-4754
Languages: Italian,French
Website
Email: rick.halpern@utoronto.ca

Ron Levi

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Claims to law and justice
  • Crime and violence
  • International law
  • Law and Society

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Hebrew,French
Website
Email: ron.levi@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shari Eli

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic History
  • Health economics

Office: (416) 946-8825
Languages: English
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shiri M. Breznitz

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship in general and students’ entrepreneurship in particular
  • Higher education
  • Incubators/accelerators
  • Innovation and technology
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Regional economic development

Office: 416-946-5225
Website
Email: shiri.breznitz@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Tom Kemeny

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic development policy
  • Economic geography
  • Economics of innovation and technical change
  • Public policy
  • Regional analysis and development
  • Urban, rural and regional economics

Office: N/A
Website
Email: tom.kemeny@utoronto.ca

Wilson Prichard

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aid reform
  • Comparative politics
  • Foreign assistance
  • Government Revenues
  • International development politics
  • International political economy
  • Natural resources and developing countries
  • Political Foundations of Development
  • State Building and Accountability
  • Sub-Sahara Africa
  • Tax Havens and International Tax Reform
  • Taxation

Office: 416-978-0743
Languages: English,French,Italian
Website
Email: wilson.prichard@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online