Our Experts

Rachel Samson
Vice-President, Research
- Policy analysis and advice
- Clean/green growth
- Inclusive growth
- Climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity policy
- Innovation policy

Jennifer Ditchburn
President and Chief Executive Officer
jditchburn@irpp.org
@jenditchburn
- Public Policy (general)
- Knowledge mobilization/transfer
- Canadian journalism
- Media practice and ethics
- Federal Politics/Parliamentary affairs

Charles Breton
Executive Director, Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation
514-787-0732 ext. 346
cbreton@irpp.org
Twitter: @charlesbreton
- Federalism
- Intergovernmental Issues
- Public Opinion and Political Behaviour
- Experimental Political Science

Colin Busby
Research Director
514-787-0747
cbusby@irpp.org
Twitter: @cbusby_eco
- Fiscal policy
- social policy
- health care policy
- labour market policy

Natalia Mishagina
Research Director
514-787-0745
nmishagina@irpp.org
Twitter: @NpMish
- Applied econometrics
- behavioural and experimental economics
- STEM workforce and education
- health and labour market policies
- immigration

France St-Hilaire
Senior Research Advisor
514-787-0738
fsthilaire@irpp.org
- Income inequality
- fiscal federalism
- tax and transfer policy
- social policy
- ecofiscal policy

F. Leslie Seidle
514-787-0739
lseidle@irpp.org
- Federalism
- intergovernmental relations
- electoral issues
- governance
- immigrant integration
- temporary foreign workers
- refugees