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Doug McArthurProfessor Contact Email : doug_mcarthur@sfu.ca Links Biography Prior to joining the Public Policy Program, Doug McArthur was Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the University of British Columbia. He taught public policy theory and process, forest and resources policy and aboriginal policy at UBC. He was also engaged in a research program encompassing these fields, and has presented and published a number of papers related to them. He continues research and writing in similar and related fields at Simon Fraser University. He was for many years a senior public servant in the British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Yukon Governments. At various times he was Deputy Minister to the Premier and Cabinet Secretary in B.C., Deputy Minister of Aboriginal Affairs in B.C, Chief Land Claims Negotiator in the Yukon, and Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Minister of Northern Saskatchewan in Saskatchewan. He was Minister of Education in Saskatchewan from 1978 to 1982 and Chair of the Canadian Council of Ministers of Education. He currently is an advisor to the federal government on the HRDC social policy review and on fiscal federalism. He also advises the Tsawwassen First Nation on treaty negotiations and on development issues. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, University of Toronto, and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Doug is also the author of regular posts on policycentre.ca, his web site devoted to public policy and political analysis in Canada http://www.policycentre.ca/ COURSES TAUGHT |