Gerry Boychuk, Director, Global Governance Programs

Gerry Boychuk is Director, Global Governance Graduate Programs (MA and Ph.D.) in the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is also an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. His areas of interest include global social governance, comparative public policy and US politics.

In the Global Governance Program, Prof. Boychuk teaches global social governance as well as the Ph.D. research methods course. The former, (PSCI 639 Global Social Governance), examines the impact of globalization in generating global social problems as well as conditioning the prospects for addressing these problems through supranational cooperation.

His current book, National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory and the Roots of Difference, examines the historical development of public health insurance in the United States and Canada in the 20th century and argues that the impact of the politics of race in the US and the politics of territorial integration in Canada provide the most powerful explanation of the divergent trajectories of development of public health care in the two countries.

He is a co-editor (with Karen Mossberger, Kent State University and Mark C. Rom, Georgetown University) of the Georgetown University Press series, American Governance and Public Policy.

Randall Wigle, Associate Director, PhD Global Governance Program

Randall Wigle has recently been appointed Associate Director of the PhD in Global Governance program. He is also a Professor of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo Ontario, Canada. He has published widely on topics in the areas of international trade policy and environmental economics. The overwhelming majority of this work relates to computable general equilibrium modeling. This modeling simulates the world economy's response to trade and environmental policies.

An important theme in this work is the analysis of environmental and trade policy in an international context. Professor Wigle is currently studying Canadian compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. A research project focusing on the federal--provincial policy dimensions of Kyoto compliance was recently funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Tracy Snoddon is Professor Wigle's co-investigator on the project.

Recently he has studied the nature of `environmental' provisions of trade agreements; linking of international trade and environmental negotiations; and the Uruguay Round trade negotiations. An ongoing
branch of his work involves the evaluation of alternative instruments to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

Terence Levesque, Director, Master's in International Public Policy (MIPP)

Terry Levesque completed baccalureate studies in Economics and Political Science at the University of New Brunswick. He earned a Masters of Science in Industrial Administration (Economics) and a Ph.D. in Politics and Political Economy from Carnegie Mellon University. He has held appointments at the University of Alberta, Carnegie Mellon University, and Wilfrid Laurier University. His scholarship involves applications of economic analysis in political economy, transportation, and marketing. He was awarded the 1984 Duncan Black Prize by the Public Choice Society for work on the Canadian Constitution that he co-authored with D. Marc Kilgour. He teaches statistics and econometrics.