Prof. Michael Howlett, Ph.D.

Mike Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

He specializes in public policy analysis, political economy, and resource and environmental policy. Holding a Ph.D. from Queen's University he taught at Queen's University (1986–1988) and the University of Victoria (1988–1989). He was Visiting Professor (2009–2010) and Yong Pung How Chair Professor (2013–2017) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and Visiting Professor at the Universita degli studi di Cagliari (2012) and Visiting Research Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2018).

Mike Howlett's current research interests are policy tools and policy design. Specifically he is analysing procedural policy instruments and issues around the sequencing of tools in policy mixes.

Mike Howlett is a Visiting Fellow at CAS in March and April 2020 and is part of the CAS Research Group "Exceptional Political Dynamics: Temporality, Turbulence, Transformation" of Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz. He will participate in the workshop on "Researching Dynamic Politics: Data, Methods, Theories" on 28 and 29 November 2019.