Gilles Paquet

Who is Gilles Paquet?

Gilles Paquet, CM MSRC is a Canadian economist, President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2003 to 2005. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the School of Management and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa.

He was professor of economics, and Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University. From 1981 to 1988; subsequently, he was Dean of the Faculty of Administration at the University of Ottawa, and in 1997, Founding Director of the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa. He chaired the Panel presenting the 2006 report on the National Capital Commission Mandate Review.

Paquet has authored or edited over 35 books and over 350 academic papers or book chapters. His specialties are Canadian economic history, urban and regional studies, industrial organization, public management, knowledge management, and governance. Additionally, he has written several hundred non-academic articles in a variety of magazines and newspapers. He is noted for a particular interest in "administrative pathologies and subversion."

Paquet has been active as a journalist on the radio and television network of Radio-Canada since the 1970s, as an editorial writer for some 5 years in the print media in the 1990s, and as commentator on national affairs on TVOntario from 1995 to 2006. Beginning 1994, he has been Editor in Chief of www.optimumonline.ca—a journal of public sector management and governance with over 10,000 subscribers.