Editor-in-Chief & Publisher

Irvin Studin worked for a number of years at the Privy Council Office (Prime Minister’s department) in Ottawa, as well as the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. The first recruit of the Canadian government’s Recruitment of Policy Leaders programme, he co-authored Canada’s 2004 national security policy and principal-authored Australia’s 2006 national counter-terrorism policy. He holds degrees from the Schulich School of Business (York University – Toronto), the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. He is also a Trudeau Scholar, and teaches at the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance. Studin publishes frequently in Policy Options, and is the editor of What is a Canadian? Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses (McClelland & Stewart, 2006). He lives in Toronto with his wife, Alla, a school teacher, and their son, Noah.