Gregory Marchildon

Dr. Marchildon holds a Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History and is a professor at the University of Regina's Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. He is also a fellow at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University.

He was most recently the Executive Director of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, which was chaired by the Hon. Roy Romanow, Q.C. The Commission’s final report, Building on Values, was tabled in Parliament on November 27, 2002.

From January 1997 until September 2000, Dr. Marchildon was Saskatchewan’s Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Minister to the Premier advised Cabinet on the establishment of the Fyke Commission on Medicare. During this time, he initiated a number of changes to enhance policy capacity among central agencies and line departments and spearheaded reforms in cabinet and cabinet committee systems to improve decision-making processes.

From 1994 until 1996, he served as the province’s Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. In this capacity, he built up the province’s international relations and trade policy capacity and was a key participant in the early social union negotiations that led to the National Child Benefit and the Social Union Framework Agreement (SUFA).

From 1989 until 1994, he was a professor of Canadian studies and economic history at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. He was also acting director of the Centre of Canadian Studies at SAIS in 1993.

Dr. Marchildon has a Ph.D. in economic history from the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as history and economics degrees from the University of Regina and a law degree from the University of Saskatchewan. He has written extensively on subjects ranging from public policy and administration to Canadian history and Canada-U.S. trade relations.