Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Alexandra Rahr

Bissell-Heyd Lecturer in American Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• COVID-19 – Pandemics as a natural disaster from a cultural perspective
• Natural disasters in American History

Office: n/a
Email: alexandra.rahr@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Andres Kasekamp

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Baltic states
• European politics
• Fascism
• NATO
• Populism

Office: Not Available
Mobile: 416-949-4284
Email: andres.kasekamp@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Aurel Braun

Professor of Political Science

Affiliated Faculty, The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Afghanistan: Will the U.S. return in the future?; Concerns of Taliban resurgence
• Canada-U.S.-Russia relations
• Conflict resolution
• International law
• Iran plan crash (generalist perspective)
• Middle East conflicts
• NATO and strategic issues
• Russia/post-Soviet states/ East Europe — politics
• Strategic studies

Office: 416-946-8952
Home: 416-787-3702
Languages: French, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian
Email: abraun@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Carmen Cheung

Senior Fellow

Executive Director at the Center for Justice and Accountability

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

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

Christoph Emmrich

Director, Centre for South Asian Studies

Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Buddhism Hinduism and Jainism
• Nepal Burma and Tamilnadu (India)
• Newar; Nepali; Burmese; Mon; Tamil; Sanskrit and Pali languages and literatures
• Religion; ritual; gender; children; girl children‎; time; travel and memory
• South Asia and Southeast Asia
• The Newars the Mon and the Tamilians

Office: (416) 978-6463
Website
Email: christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Dan Breznitz

Co-Director, Innovation Policy Lab

Munk Chair, Innovation Studies

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• COVID-19 – Role of innovation and impact on global production
• Economic policy
• Innovation policy
• Notion of a fourth industrial revolution
• Post-COVID 19 economic security
• Rethinking global production supply chains & manufacturing
• Trade (Trans-Pacific Partnership)

Office: 416-946-0584
Email: dan.breznitz@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Darius Ornston

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of Expertise

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

Office: 416-978-2486
Email: ron.levi@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

David Wolfe

Professor of Political Science, UTM

Co-Director, Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science (UTM)

Areas of Expertise

• Local and regional economic development (Ontario and Canada)
• Technology and Economics
• Urban economic development

Office: 416-946-8922
Website
Email: david.wolfe@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Dylan Clark

Lecturer

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Anthropology
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Asian Institute
  • Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

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

Elizabeth Dhuey

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Management (UTSC)
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources

Areas of Expertise

• Economics of K-12 education
• Kindergarten
• Middle/Junior High School
• Principals
• Redshirting
• Special Education Finance

Office: 416-978-2721
Website
Email: elizabeth.dhuey@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Elizabeth Legge

Associate Professor of Fine Art History,

Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of the United States

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Art
  • Cinema Studies
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for Comparative Literature

Areas of Expertise

• 20th century art
• Contemporary Canadian and British art
• Dada
• Surrealism

Office: 416-978-7891
Home: 416-617-1964
Email: eliz.legge@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Emanuel Adler

Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Andrea & Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies Emeritus

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Centre for Ethics
  • Centre for International Studies
  • Institute of European Studies

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

Enid Slack

Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• COVID-19 – Financial impact on municipalities
• Intergovernmental transfers
• Municipal finance – revenues and expenditures of municipal governments
• Municipal restructuring
• New sources of municipal revenue
• Property tax reform
• Property tax; property tax reform; intergovernmental transfers; user fees; new sources of municipal revenue
• User fees

Office: 416-946-0328
Email: tomas.hachard@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Gabriel Eidelman

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Director, Urban Policy Lab

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • School of Public Policy and Governance
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Institute for Management & Innovation (UTM)
  • School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

• Cities
• Intergovernmental relations
• Local/municipal government
• Urban policy

Office: 416-978-7831
Website
Email: g.eidelman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Garth Frazer

Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Rotman School of Management
  • School of Public Policy and Governance
• Department
  • Management (UTSC)
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Public Policy & Governance

Areas of Expertise

• Economics
• Emerging economies
• Industrial development in Africa
• International trade in Africa
• Productivity
• Public policy

Office: 416-978-3047, 416-287-7522
Email: g.frazer@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Janice Stein

Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Department of Political Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Afghanistan: U.S. responsibility & international response
• Border closures
• Conflict management and resolution
• Global order
• Iran
• Israel-Palestine violence: U.S. & international response
• Middle East
• UN comments on war

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

Jeffrey Reitz

Professor Emeritus of Sociology,

R.F. Harney Professor Emeritus of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Human rights
• Immigrant employment
• Immigration
• Immigration policy
• Management of diversity issues
• Multiculturalism in western countries
• Race and ethnic relations: human rights
• U.S. race relations
• Workplace issues

Office: N/A
Home: 416-465-5596
Email: jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jennifer Jenkins

Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

Canada Research Chair in Modern German History

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• German domestic politics and foreign policy
• German global politics
• German nationalism
• Germany and the Middle East
• Modern Germany
• National identity
• Politics and culture

Office: N/A
Home: 416-767-2064
Mobile: 416-522-2371
Languages: German
Email: jl.jenkins@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jillian Kohler

Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Governance, Accountability and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Corruption and fraud in the healthcare system
• Global health issues
• Good governance
• Patient protection and access to medicines and vaccines
• Pharmaceutical industry and ethics
• Pharmaceutical industry social responsibility
• Politics of health care
• Procurement of health products
• Transparency and accountability in vaccine development; equitable access to pharmaceuticals globally
• United Nations institutions

Office: 416-946-8708
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese
Email: jillian.kohler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

John Robinson

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
  • Geography & Planning
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Academic/community partnerships
• Behaviour change
• Climate change
• Climate change mitigation
• Participatory community engagement
• Scenario analysis and futures studies
• Social and technological change
• Sustainability
• Sustainable Buildings and Cities

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

Jon R. Lindsay

Assistant Professor, Digital Media and Global Affairs

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Cybersecurity
• Military innovation
• Technology and security

Office: 416-946-8866
Website
Email: jon.lindsay@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Joseph Heath

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • School of Public Policy and Governance
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Philosophy

Areas of Expertise

• Consumerism
• Counterculture
• Distributive justice
• Multiculturalism
• Welfare state

Office: 416-978-8094
Languages: French
Website
Email: joseph.heath@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Joseph Wong

Vice President, International

Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation,

Professor of Political Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Asia
• Democratization
• Global development
• Innovation policy
• Poverty and inequality

Office: 416-978-7955
Website
Email: joe.wong@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Louis Pauly

J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Global Japan

Areas of Expertise

• Economic globalization
• International monetary and financial policy

Office: 416-978-6385
Website
Email: louis.pauly@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Lynette Ong

Associate Professor of Political Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Global Affairs
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Asian Institute

Areas of Expertise

• Authoritarian politics
• Canada-China relations
• COVID-19 impact on Chinese culture and cuisine
• COVID-19 outbreak impact on trade & international relations
• COVID-19 U.S.- China tension
• Human rights in China
• International stance on China & where Canada stands
• Political economy of China
• Politics and political economy in China
• Politics in Singapore and Malaysia
• Politics of China
• Protest and state repression in China
• Urbanization in China

Office: 416-978-6804
Languages: Mandarin, Chinese
Website
Email: lynette.ong@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mark Manger

Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• International monetary and financial policy
• Japan (economy and politics)
• Macroeconomic policy
• Political economy of Japan
• Trade agreements
• Trade and investment
• Uncharted territory of COVID-19 economic impact

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

Matthew Hoffmann

Professor of Political Science

Co-director of Environmental Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Climate change politics
• Climate-related policy
• Environmental policy
• Global environmental politics
• Global governance
• International relations
• Investing in green technology

Office: 416-287-7287
Mobile: 647-987-1961
Website
Email: matt.hoffmann@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

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • School of Public Policy and Governance
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Electoral reform – what are the issues
• Former High Commissioner to the UK; Johnson in ICU (cannot speak to diagnosis)
• 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

Nancy Bertoldi

Associate Professor, Cross-Appointed in Political Science and Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Civil disobedience
• Human rights
• Poverty and inequality

Office: 416-946-0181
Website
Email: nancy.bertoldi@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Paul Cohen

Associate Professor of History

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• France
• France national identity and language politics
• Higher education policy in France
• Linguistic nationalism
• Social history of languages

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