Tel: 778.782.5208
Fax: 778.782.5288
Office: Harbour Centre 3301
email: doug_mcarthur@sfu.ca
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.
