The expected federal election has been called with Canadians heading to polls on April 28. Western University has the following experts available to media on topics including voter attitudes, tariffs, the economy, health care, housing, AI policy and more.
Political Science
Laura Stephenson
Professor and Chair, Political Science
Areas of expertise: Voter attitudes and public opinion, electoral engagement with politics, election interference.
Cameron Anderson
Professor, Political Science
Areas of expertise: Political behaviour, economic voting, political identity and citizen behaviour in a multilevel setting.
Matthew Lebo
Professor, Political Science
Areas of expertise: American politics impacts on Canada, the presidency, congressional elections and political parties in Congress.
Sam Routley
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Areas of expertise: Canadian politics, elections, voter attitudes, Canadian political institutions, political leadership, political culture.
Tariffs and Trade
Chi Carmody
Professor, Law; Canadian National Director, Canada-United States Law Institute
Areas of expertise: Legality of Trump’s tariff threats, international law, international trade law and international business transactions.
Romel Mostafa
Assistant Professor, Ivey Business School; Director, Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management
Areas of expertise: Interprovincial trade, Ontario competitiveness, international business and economics, economic policy, industrial evolution and policy.
Andreas Schotter
Professor, Ivey Business School
Areas of expertise: Canada-U.S. trade relations, impact of tariffs, international business, emerging markets.
Budgets, Monetary Policy and Banking
Cristián Bravo
Associate Professor, Statistical and Actuarial Sciences; Canada Research Chair in Banking and Insurance Analytics
Areas of expertise: Bank of Canada interest rate strategy, banking and financial institutions, credit scoring and credit risk, profit-driven business analytics.
Mahmood Nanji
Lawrence Centre Policy Fellow, Ivey Business School
Areas of expertise: Tariffs, interprovincial trade, development of budgets, tax administration; former Associate Deputy Minister at Ontario’s Ministry of Finance.
Stephen Williamson
Professor, Economics; Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking
Areas of expertise: Economic impact of tariffs, financial economics, monetary economics, macroeconomics, former Bank of Canada Fellow 2018-2022.
Health Care
Lauren E. Cipriano
Associate Professor, Ivey Business School; Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Health policy evaluation, health economics, health-care cost effectiveness analysis, health-care human resources; Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Analytics, Management, and Policy
Dr. Carlos Quiñonez
Vice Dean and Director, Dentistry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: National Dental Care Program benefits, how program may impact current dental industry.
Dr. Michael Rieder
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Pharmacare Act, paediatric clinical pharmacology, drug efficacy and safety.
Sisira Sarma
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Health policy, economics of primary health care, health care costs, health services utilization.
Housing and Homelessness
Abe Oudshoorn
Associate Professor, Nursing
Areas of expertise: Homelessness, housing policy, health equity, community health.
Alexander Wray
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Geography & Environment
Areas of expertise: Housing quality of life, development and urban planning; project coordinator of ParkSeek Canada as part of the Human Environments Analysis Lab.
Energy Policy
Brandon Schaufele
Associate Professor, Ivey Business School; Director, Ivey Energy Policy and Management
Areas of expertise: Energy policy and economics, agricultural economics, environmental economics.
Borders and Immigration
Victoria Esses
Professor, Psychology; Director, Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations
Areas of expertise: Border measures, refugee flows, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) responses to refugees, immigration and cultural diversity, ethnic relations.
Michael Haan
Associate Professor, Sociology; Director, Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western
Areas of Expertise: Demographics, education, labour force, research on immigrant and refugee settlement.
Technology and AI Policy
Alissa Centivany
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies; co-director, Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies
Areas of expertise: Technology and policy, repairing versus buying new, Right to Repair legislation, impact of over consumption.
Mark Daley
Professor, Computer Science; Chief AI Officer
Areas of expertise: Responsible uses of AI, natural computing, computational neuroscience, data science, applied machine learning.
Joanna Redden
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies; co-director, Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies
Areas of expertise: AI and datafication, federal AI policy, government use of AI, political implications of AI, data harms.
Luke Stark
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies; co-director, Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies
Areas of expertise: Ethical impacts of AI and computing, AI and mediating social and emotional expression.
Elections and Cybersecurity
Aleksander Essex
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; director, Whisper Lab
Areas of expertise: Elections and trustworthy electronic voting, elections and cyber security, offensive and defensive information security and data privacy
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Primary: Justin Zadorsky, Media Relations Officer, Western University, 226.377.1673 (mobile), jzadorsk@uwo.ca.
For Schulich experts: Cynthia Fazio, Media Relations Officer, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, 226.376.4924 (mobile), cynthia.fazio@uwo.ca.
For Ivey experts: Ivan Langrish, Associate Director, Media Strategy Marketing and Communications, Ivey Business School, 416-203-0664 (office), 416-427-6337 (mobile), ilangrish@ivey.ca
