People
The Munk School’s faculty members are exceptional leaders, teachers and researchers.
The School is home to more than 60 faculty members, academic directors, and named chairholders, as well as cross-appointed and affiliated faculty and staff from across the University of Toronto. We also host a wide range of fellows with expertise in global affairs and public policy.
View the Munk School’s faculty members below or visit the full Munk School directory to see a complete listing of the school's faculty, lecturers, staff and researchers.
![Stephan Heblich teaches a class](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_3_2_860/public/assets/media/images/2022-10/mga_mpp_stephan_resized_oct11_jamienapierdsc00835.jpg.jpg?itok=4S1aqFR7)
![Headshot of Farzana Afridi](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Farzana-Afridi_MG_4351_0.jpg.webp?itok=rzVp6wZn)
Visiting Professor, Munk School
Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute
![Headshot of Robert Austin](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/MunkSchool_310517__RobAustin_24905crop.jpg.webp?itok=Hf-j7FIr)
Associate Director, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
Professor, Teaching Stream, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
![Headshot of Jacques Bertrand](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/IMG_7239%20copy.jpg.webp?itok=d1BfgH7e)
Director, Collaborative Master’s Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies
Professor, Department of Political Science
![Headshot of Maurice Bitran](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Maurice-Bitran.jpg.webp?itok=eKg9F4bH)
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
![Headshot of Moussa Blimpo](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/moussa-p-blimpo-portrait.jpg.webp?itok=hXGeAlIa)
Assistant Professor
![Headshot of Dan Breznitz](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/DSC_4732%20-%20Dan%20Breznitz%20-%20photo%20by%20Lisa%20Sakulensky.jpg.webp?itok=4KYALYyn)
Co-Director, Innovation Policy Lab
University Professor
Munk Chair of Innovation Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Political Science, University of Toronto
![Headshot of Shiri Breznitz — photo by Alexis MacDonald](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Shiri%20Breznitz_Edited%205_Oct%202021_By%20Alexis%20MacDonald.jpg.webp?itok=GdGchxbC)
Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation
Professor & Director of Research, Munk School
![Francis Cody - Photo by Jamie Napier](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/JamieNapier_MUNK_-36%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=SO9A4u8J)
Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Contemporary Asian Studies (CAS)
Director, Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS)
Associate Professor, Asian Institute/Centre for South Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UTM
![Headshot of Jonathan Craft](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/jonathan-craft%20-%20stock_0.jpeg.webp?itok=_38qszfB)
Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
![Headshot of Ron Deibert](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Oct6_JamieNapier_DSC08687_0.jpg.webp?itok=JIlUkPgR)
Professor, Department of Political Science
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
![Headshot of Michael Donnelly](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/JamieNapier_MUNK_-01905.jpg.webp?itok=ax3kj16Z)
Director, Professional Master’s Programs
Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
![Headshot of Gabriel Eidelman](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Gabriel%20Eidelman%20portrait.JPG.webp?itok=RY8sAW3e)
Director, Urban Policy Lab
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute for Management and Innovation
Affiliated Faculty, School of Cities
![Headshot of Shari Eli](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/thumbnail_image002.jpg.webp?itok=9yn0iFgW)
Director, Undergraduate Program in Public Policy
Director, People's History Lab
Associate Professor, Munk School
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
![Headshot of Drew Fagan - photo by Alexis MacDonald](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Drew%20Fagan%201_2021_By%20Alexis%20MacDonald.jpg.webp?itok=bk-877d2)
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty Member, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
![Headshot of Diana Fu - photo by Alexis MacDonald](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/2022-03/Diana%20Fu%201_2021_By%20Alexis%20MacDonald.jpg.webp?itok=-5DRQc10)
Co-lead, Changing World Order area of focus, Munk School
Director, East Asia Seminar Series
Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
![Headshot of Laura Garcia-Montoya](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Oct14_JamieNapierDSC01531.jpg.webp?itok=YCpYftFJ)
Assistant Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Visiting Professor, Asian Institute
Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Ryutsu Keizai University
![Picture of Rick Halpern in front of a window wearing glasses and a grey sweater.](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/RH_FRAMES_Headshot.jpg.webp?itok=ZV4TB752)
Interim Director, Centre for the Study of the United States
Bissell-Heyd Chair, American Studies
Director, American Studies Program
![Randall Hansen](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Sept26_JamieNapier_DSC08957_0.jpg.webp?itok=Uzi-xe2Q)
Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Canada Research Chair in Global Migration
Director, Global Migration Lab
![Headshot of Stephan Heblich](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Stephan%20Heblich%20portrait.JPG.webp?itok=e_tZqXdi)
Munk Chair in Applied Economics
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
![Andres Kasekamp](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Sept20_JamieNapier_DSC04208.jpg.webp?itok=oHqACBHV)
Professor, Department of History
Chair of Estonian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
![Headshot of Tom Kemeny](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/DSC_4571.jpeg.webp?itok=b-_X9Pdh)
Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
![Headshot of Rie Kijima by Alexis MacDonald](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Rie%20Kijima%204_2021_By%20Alexis%20MacDonald_0.jpg.webp?itok=6whoVCfF)
Assistant Professor
Director, Initiative for Education Policy and Innovation
Director, Peace, Conflict and Justice
Director, Munk One
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Global Japan
![Tae-woo Ko headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Ko%20Tae%20Woo_0.jpg.webp?itok=NOoTwinN)
Visiting Professor, Centre for the Study of Korea
Assistant Professor, Department of Korean History, Seoul National University
![Tong Lam](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/UofT13749_20150923_TongLam_4639-lpr_0.JPG.webp?itok=lcqN6sB9)
Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Asian Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
![Headshot of Yoonkyung Lee](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Sept25_JamieNapier_DSC08792_0.jpg.webp?itok=vOa6H7cK)
Korea Foundation Chair of Korean Studies
Professor, Department of Sociology
![Headshot of Ron Levi](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Ron%20Levi%20portrait.JPG.webp?itok=D2cyWjIN)
Director, Global Justice Lab
Distinguished Professor of Global Justice
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
Professor, Department of Sociology
![Headshot of Phillip Lipscy - photo by Alexis MacDonald](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Phillip%20Lipscy%202_2021_By%20Alexis%20MacDonald.jpg.webp?itok=VQcbHKx9)
Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan
Chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Professor, Department of Political Science
![Headshot of Peter Loewen](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/PL_5667.jpeg.webp?itok=6Y4DAKBA)
Professor, Department of Political Science
Professor, Munk School
Director, PEARL
Robert Vipond Distinguished Professor in Democracy, Department of Political Science
![Headshot of Mark Manger](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Sept25_JamieNapier_DSC08509_0.jpg.webp?itok=oouRwpiB)
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Professor, Department of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
![Headshot of Janet Mason](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Janet%20Mason%20cropped.jpeg.webp?itok=crJRwvBo)
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
![Leah Montange - Photo by Jamie Napier](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/JamieNapier_MUNK_-02016.jpg.webp?itok=BvfPAPO9)
Bissell-Heyd Lecturer in American Studies
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
![Dani Nedal](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Dani_0.jpeg.webp?itok=K07_K81E)
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
![Headshot of Lynette Ong](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Lynette%20Ong.jpg.webp?itok=VmsEiuiz)
Professor, Asian Institute
Professor, Department of Political Science
![Headshot of Darius Ornston](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Ornston-Headshot_0.jpeg.webp?itok=uuHSkiAP)
Director, Research
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
![Image of Jonathan Ostry at an IMF meeting](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Jonathan%20Ostry_0.JPG.webp?itok=t9NJlN-o)
Professor of Economics, Global Affairs & Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Professor, Department of Economics
![Ito Peng headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Sept25_JamieNapier_DSC08586_0.jpg.webp?itok=BoDvc9Tz)
Director, Centre for Global Social Policy
Professor, Department of Sociology
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Global Japan
![Paul Perron - photo by University College](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/20190507121344732_0002%20%28002%29.jpg.webp?itok=b2V4EcTJ)
Professor Emeritus, Department of French
Assistant Professor
![Headshot of Wilson Prichard](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Wilson%20Prichard%20portrait.JPG.webp?itok=5AzK6nj-)
Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
CEO, International Centre for Tax and Development / Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI)
![Headshot of Guiping Qu](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/guiping%20qu%20-headshot.jpg.webp?itok=pF1xNNI1)
Visiting Professor, Asian Institute
School of History and Culture, South China Normal University
![Headshot of James Radner](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/J%20Radner%20Photo.jpg.webp?itok=yYYMkocQ)
Professor
![Alexandra Rahr - photo by Jamie Rahr](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Sept22_JamieNapier_DSC05390.jpg.webp?itok=Bv2v1E-B)
Director of Undergraduate Programs and Student Experience
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Professor
Munk Chair of Global Affairs
![Headshot of John Robinson](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Sept25_JamieNapier_DSC08460_0.jpg.webp?itok=gPDGSe8X)
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Presidential Advisor on the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability
Professor, School of the Environment
![Headshot of Paola Salardi](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Paola%20Salardi%20portrait.JPG.webp?itok=zCUFxWNr)
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Economics
![Headshot of Ed Schatz](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Sept25_JamieNapier_DSC08293_0.jpg.webp?itok=Hmk0AA0n)
Director, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
Director, Belt and Road in Global Perspective
Director, Eurasia Initiative
Professor, Department of Political Science
![Headshot of Ayelet Shachar](/sites/default/files/styles/mk_person_photo_teaser/public/assets/person/photo/Ayelet_Shachar%20portrait.jpg.webp?itok=YAd1Ebpf)
R. F. Harney Professor and Director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program
Professor of Law, Political Science and Global Affairs