Abigail Jackson is a research associate at the Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Shaimaa Yassin is a senior research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy. She leads the Toward a More Equitable Canada research program, which has published studies on affordability, including housing and other basic needs that intersect with climate and energy policy, food insecurity and income supports for lower income Canadians, and proposed dental care and pharmacare programs. She leads the IRPP’s role as a research and knowledge mobilization partner of the Affordability Action Council and also serves as a member.  She manages the IRPP’s postdoctoral fellowship program in support of Indigenous, Black and other racialized scholars.

Valentin Pautonnier is a PhD candidate in political science at the Université de Montréal and a fellow at McGill University’s Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making. He was a research intern at the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) from February to July 2025, where he contributed to the IRPP-Future Skills Centre project. His research focuses on electoral geography, rural-urban political divides and the impact of economic conditions on voting behaviour. He holds a BA in economics from Sciences Po Grenoble. He also holds master’s degrees from Sciences Po Grenoble and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he specialized in survey methods and political behaviour.