Abstract
Allan Tupper is Associate Vice President (Government Relations) and Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. A native of Ottawa, Dr. Tupper is a graduate of Carleton University (BA, DPA, MA) and Queen's University where he received his PhD in Political Studies in 1977.
For more than 20 years, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He served as Chair of the Department of Political Science, Associate Dean of Arts and Associate Vice President (Government Relations). He was also Vice President (Academic) at Acadia University. His major teaching and research interests are Canadian politics, western Canadian politics, public policy and public administration. He has published extensively on these topics and has authored or edited six books and many articles and chapters. Dr. Tupper is Editor in Chief of Canadian Public Administration, the internationally-known journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. He chairs the Centre for Constitutional Studies, an established research institute for the interdisciplinary study of constitutional and human rights issues in Canada and abroad.
Dr. Tupper is actively involved in community outreach, public speaking and media relations. He is a frequent commentator on regional and national media. Dr. Tupper has been an instructor at the Banff School of Advanced Management and the Senior Executive Development Program of the Government of Alberta.