External Advisory Council

Our External Advisory Council comprises public servants, political figures and leaders in civil society. Members of the Council support the Institute by offering feedback on strategic direction, facilitating external interactions and supporting connections between Dalhousie and other public policy actors.

Members

	Megan Leslie (Chair) President and CEO, WWF-Canada Former MP for Halifax and Deputy Leader of Canada’s Official Opposition
	The Honourable Wayne G. Wouters, P.C. (Vice-Chair) Strategic and Policy Advisor, McCarthy Tétrault LLP Former Clerk of the Privy Council, Government of Canada
	Doug Kirkpatrick Over 30 years in public policy and public administration President, Heydon Strategies Inc. Founding Executive Director of the original MacEachen Institute for Policy & Government
	Nathan Kroll President and founder of Current Studios Nova Scotia technology entrepreneur
	Colin P. MacDonald, Q.C. Former senior staffer in Allan MacEachen’s office Recently retired corporate law partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Advisory Board member of the original MacEachen Institute for Policy & Government
	Taleeb Noormohamed President and Chief Operating Officer, Casaza Inc. Advisory Board member of the original MacEachen Institute for Policy & Government
	Dr. Pamela Palmater Mi’kmaw lawyer and social justice activist from Eel River Bar First Nation Chair in Indigenous Governance, Ryerson University
	The Honourable Bob Rae, P.C., C.C., O.Ont, Q.C. Partner, OKT LLP Canada's special envoy to Myanmar Professor, University of Toronto Served as Ontario’s 21st premier from 1990 to 1995
	Professor Janice Gross Stein Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
	David A. Thompson Owner, Weed Man Maritimes Founding Trustee of the For the Public Good Trust (2011)