Brian Lee Crowley

Who is Brian Lee Crowley?

Brian Lee Crowley, a native of Vancouver, British Columbia, is Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a national public policy think tank based in Ottawa. He was also the founding President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, a public policy think tank based in Atlantic Canada. He authored of three books. He was the editor of Taking Ownership: Property Rights and Fishery Management on the Atlantic Coast, AIMS, 1996.

He co-authored two projects on the Canadian health-care system both of which won the Sir Antony Fisher Award. In recognition of his health-care work, he was named to the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Council on Health.

The Council's Chairman, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski, called Crowley the "intellectual architect" of the committee’s report. Crowley is a frequent media commentator on health-care policy and has spoken to national and international conferences in recent years on health-care reform in Canada. In March, 2008 he was named Senior Fellow at the Galen Institute, a free market health policy think tank in Washington, D.C. Other major institute projects where Crowley has taken a leadership role include its work on equalization, Canada-US relations, and especially Atlantica, public school performance and accountability, EI reform, natural resources and public finances, and regional development policy.