Lori Turnbull

Fellow

Lori Turnbull is a professor and the director of the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University.

Lori’s research and teaching focuses on parliamentary democracy and governance, public sector ethics and the future of work.

In addition to her teaching experience at Dalhousie, Lori has taught political science and public administration at Queen’s University, Carleton University and Acadia University.

Lori was on secondment to the federal government’s Privy Council Office from 2015 until 2017, first as a policy advisor in the Machinery of Government Secretariat, then as departmental liaison to the Office of the Minister of Democratic Institutions, and finally as a policy advisor at the Priorities and Planning Secretariat.

Lori is a frequent commentator on CTV, CBC and Global News. She has published a number of scholarly articles and book chapters. Her book, Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government — which she co-authored with Mark Jarvis and the late Peter Aucoin —won the Donner Prize in 2011 and the Donald Smiley Prize in 2012. She writes regularly for The Globe and Mail and is the deputy editor of Canadian Government Executive magazine.

Lori has a doctorate in political science and government from Dalhousie University.

Lori joined PPF as a Fellow in 2017.

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