Keith Banting
Biography:
KEITH BANTING is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Studies and Stauffer Dunning Fellow in the School of Policy Studies. His research interests focus on public policy in Canada and other contemporary democracies. He has had a long-standing interest in the politics of social policy and has extended this research to include ethnic diversity, immigration, and multiculturalism. He is the author and editor of over twenty books and the author or co-author of a long list of articles and book chapters. His publications have been translated into seven languages.
Professor Banting earned his B.A. (Hons.) from Queen’s University and his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He taught for thirteen years at the University of British Columbia before returning to Queen’s. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, the Brookings Institution, Harvard University, Oxford University, the European University Institute, the University of Melbourne, Stockholm University, and the University of California (Berkeley). In 2016, he was the Willy Brandt Guest Professor at Malmö University in Sweden.
In 2004, Professor Banting was appointed a member of the Order of Canada. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, was awarded an honorary doctorate by Stockholm University, and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2016, he received the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award in Canadian Politics from the Canadian Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. In 2018, he received a Distinguished Service Award from Queen’s University.
SOURCE: https://www.queensu.ca/academia/keith-banting/
Activities:
An Appreciation of Hugh Segal: Celebrating His Intellectual Contributions to Canada