In Conversation with Donald J. Savoie: Canada: Withering Institutions
This conversation was an exclusive virtual lunch and learn event for Munk School students and alumni with Donald J. Savoie, Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at the Université de Moncton.
This event is part of the David Peterson Program in Public Sector Leadership Speaker Series, which welcomes leading policy thinkers and practitioners across the public sector, politics, business, and the media to the University to examine pressing issues. The David Peterson Program in Public Sector Leadership was established through the extraordinary generosity of The Hon. David Peterson, former premier of Ontario, U of T Chancellor Emeritus and Faculty of Law alumnus, and Mrs. Shelley Peterson.
About the Speaker:
Donald J. Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at the Université de Moncton. His research achievements are prodigious and his influence on Canadian public policy, Canadian public administration and Canadian society has been evident for years.
He has served as an advisor to a number of federal, provincial and territorial government departments and agencies, the private sector, independent associations, OECD, the World Bank and the United Nations. At the request of the Canadian prime minister, he undertook in 1986-87 a review of federal government regional development efforts in Atlantic Canada and prepared a report that led to the establishment of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. He was Simon Reisman Visiting Fellow, Treasury Board, government of Canada (2004), Senior Fulbright Scholar at Harvard and Duke universities (2001-02), elected Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (2006) and appointed Visiting Professor of Government and Public Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) 2007.
Dr. Savoie has been called upon to participate on various decision-making, advisory and editorial committees. He was elected president of the Canadian Association of Political Science (1998). He served as a member of the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments (2016-17), the Advisory Committee of the Order of Canada (1995-99), the Steering Committee of Canada’s “Prosperity and Competitiveness” planning exercise (1991-92), and the Economic Council of Canada (1990-92).