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Donald J.
Savoie

Donald J. Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at the University of Moncton. He is a former civil servant and has extensive work experience in both government and academia. He has been an advisor to federal, provincial, and territorial governments, the private sector, the World Bank, and the United Nations. He is the author of numerous books, including Power: Where Is It?

Videos

Donald J. Savoie on What Happened to the Music Teacher?

Award History

2013 Finalist

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
for Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why

Jury Citation

“For three decades Anglo-American politicians have been reorganizing the public service to follow private-sector management models. As policy insider Donald Savoie illustrates in Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher?, the experiment has been a failure. Then he takes us further, showing in up-close detail how governments make decisions and how to better organize the public sector for results.” – 2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Jury (Licia Corbella, Jane O’Hara, and Doug Saunders)