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Dr. Kumanan Wilson (MD, MSc, FRCPC) is the Chief Executive Officer/Chief Scientific Officer of the Bruyère Research Institute, Vice-President Research & Academic, Bruyère Continuing Care, a specialist in general internal medicine and senior scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.  He holds the Faculty of Medicine Clinical Research Chair in Digital Health Innovation.  He is also the Chief Scientist of CANImmunize Inc., a digital immunization solutions company. 

Dr. Wilson has published extensively in the areas of digital health, immunization, pandemic preparedness, blood safety and health policy.   His work for the Institute has included examination of the role of federalism on public health policy domestically and internationally.  This has included overseeing a working paper series on public health federalism  and coordinating a conference with the WHO on public health emergency response in federal states.

Nadia Verrelli is a professor of political science at Laurentian University, and an ongoing research associate at the Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, ��ɫ��Ƶ. She completed her doctorate in political science at Carleton University. In her dissertation she looks at how the Supreme Court of Canada understands Canadian federalism and how this understanding was used by the Court as a variable when it rendered its opinions in four key constitutional references: the Senate Reference, the Patriation Reference, the Quebec Veto Reference and the Secession Reference. She has taught various courses , including Quebec Politics, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Identity Politics and Canadian Constitutional Law. Currently she is working on a book exploring  court and police responses to domestic violence .

Recent Publications

• Verrelli, Nadia (2017). “Searching for an Amending Formula: The 115-Year journey” in Emmett Macfarlane (ed) Constitutional Amendment in Canada. University of Toronto Press.
• Chambers, L., and Verrelli, N. “A Missed Opportunity: The Investigation of the RCMP in Matters Related to R. v. Ryan”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, (forthcoming, 32 (1) (spring 2017))
• Baker, Richard and Verrelli, Nadia, “Smudging, drumming and the like do not a nation make”:Temporal Liminality and Delegitimization of Indigenous Protest in Canada, Journal of Canadian Studies, (forthcoming spring 2017)

Kyle Hanniman is Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and an Associate Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University. His research interests include Canadian, comparative and fiscal federalism and the political economy of fiscal and monetary policy, with a particular emphasis on the politics of subnational borrowing and central banks. His work has appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and the Socioeconomic Review, among other outlets. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA from St. Thomas University, and prior to coming to Queen’s, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance. Hanniman has held visiting positions at the European University Institute and the Australian National University’s School of Politics and International Relations.

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Dr. J. Andrew Grant is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. He specializes in analyzing multilateral approaches and multistakeholder initiatives that address governance challenges in natural resource sectors. In 2009, he was the first political scientist to receive an Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation, which recognized his work on natural resource governance. His work has been published in Land Use Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources Policy, Extractive Industries and Society, Natural Resources Forum, International Journal of Environmental Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, and International Studies Review, among other scholarly journals. Dr. Grant has been a Visiting Scholar/Researcher at Northwestern University, USA, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Holly Ann Garnett is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. She is cross-appointed at the Department of Political Studies and School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University (Kingston), and an Honourary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK).

Her research examines how electoral integrity can be strengthened throughout the electoral cycle, including the role of election management, registration and voting, cyber-security and election technologies, civic literacy, and campaign finance. Her most recent work published on these topics include (MQUP, 2022; edited with Michael Pal) and (Routledge, 2020; edited with Toby S. James).

Dr. Garnett is a co-director of the , a global project of academics and practitioners that examines the quality of elections around the world. She is also co-investigator with the (HC2P); co-investigator with the (C-Dem); fellow with the Queen’s Institute for Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR); and collaborator with the ’s work on campaign finance in Canada.

She holds a PhD in Political Science from McGill University (2017), a Master of Arts from Queen’s University (2011), and a Bachelor of Arts from Nipissing University (2010). She was an at The Australian National University (2017), a visiting fellow at the Åbo Akademi, Finland (2017), a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney (2014), and a at Cornell University (2009).

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Stéphanie Chouinard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Royal Military College (Kingston) and ��ɫ��Ƶ.  She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Ottawa, for which she was awarded a Vanier Scholarship and fellowship from the Baxter & Alma Ricard foundation.  Her research interests focus on the relationship between courts and minorities in democratic and federal systems.  Her current research studies the Supreme Court of Canada's impact on the evolution of official-language rights and Aboriginal rights and their interaction with the federal system.  She is also interested in territorial and non-territorial autonomy arrangements for linguistic minorities in the world.  She has published in Ethnopolitics, the Language Rights Review, Language Minorities and Society, and the International Journal of Canadian Studies, among others.

For more information, please visit Stéphanie Chouinard web page 

Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D, Queen’s) is Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, ��ɫ��Ƶ, Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College, Fulbright Research Chair in Canada-US Relations at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC and a former Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome.  He is Adjunct Research Professor, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University as well as the Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University.  A recipient of RMC’s Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research and an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, he is also Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the Macdonald Laurier Institute.  An expert in security and defence, political demography, and comparative federalism and multilevel governance, he has held visiting positions in North America, Europe, and Australia, and is regularly called as an expert witness to testify before committees of Parliament.  He holds appointments to the board of the German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, the Police Services Board of the City of Kingston, and the Polar Research & Policy Initiative.

His publications have appeared in English, German, French, and Spanish and include over a dozen books and scores of articles that have appeared, inter alia, in the Florida State University Law Review (2019), Electoral Studies (2016), Government Information Quarterly (2016), Armed Forces and Society (2015), Global Crime (2015, 2013), the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (2014, Maureen Molot Prize for Best Article), Canadian Public Administration (2014), the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2012, 2003), Regional and Federal Studies (2012), and Terrorism and Political Violence (2019, 2018, 2017, 2011). His editorials appear regularly across Canada’s national newspapers and he is a frequent commentator in domestic and international media.

Leuprecht has been Matthew Flinders Fellow at the Flinders University of South Australia (2017-2018), held a senior and visiting fellowships at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (2016), the Helmut-Schmidt-University of the Bundeswehr (2016), Université Pierre-Mendès France (2015), the University of Augsburg in Germany (2011), the Swedish National Defence College (recurring) and the European Academy (recurring), and as the Bicentennial Visiting Associate Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University (2009-2010).  He is a research affiliate at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (since 2005), the Network for Terrorism, Security, and Society (since 2012), l’Université de Montréal’s International Centre for Comparative Criminology (since 2014), the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Canada et du Québec (since 2015), l’Observatoire sur la radicalization et l’extrémisme violent (since 2015), the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (since 2010), the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College (2003), the World Population Program at the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria (2002), and held doctoral (2001-2003) and postdoctoral (2003-2005) fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  He holds a Ph.D. from Queen’s University (2003), and graduate degrees in Political Science (1998) and French (1999) from the University of Toronto as well as the Institut d’Études Politiques at the Université Pierre-Mendès France in Grenoble (1997).  

From 2015-2018 he held a Governor-in-Council appointment to the governing Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada where he also served on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the Committee on Discovery Research.  He is also immediate past-president (2014-2018) of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution.  Since joining RMCC in 2005, he has served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science and Economics.  He has twice received the RMCC Commandant’s Commendation for Excellence in Service.  A long-time proponent of experiential learning, Leuprecht has also been a finalist for RMCC’s Teaching Excellence Award and has received honourable mention for the Queen’s University Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award (2017).  He is a member of the editorial boards of Armed Forces & Society, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Current Sociology’s Manuscript Series, and the Springer book series in Advances in Science and Technologies for Security Applications.  Previously, he was associate editor of the Queen’s Policy Studies series published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

For more information, please visit Christian's website.