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B.C. provincial election – Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµexperts available
Voters across British Columbia are heading to the polling booths again this week as they cast their votes in the provincial election on Saturday.
Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµexperts are available to share their insights on key election issues.
Available Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµexperts
POLITICS
SANJAY JERAM, senior lecturer, political science
sjeram@sfu.ca
Expertise: Provincial politics, Canadian politics, federalism, political parties, national identity, political values and ideology, and diversity issues.
EDANA BEAUVAIS, associate professor, political science
edana_beauvais@sfu.ca
Expertise: Political communication, deliberative democracy, racial, ethnic and settler-colonial politics, gender and politics, political behaviour.
FINANCE AND ECONOMY
ANDREY PAVLOV, professor, finance
apavlov@sfu.ca
Expertise: Real estate markets, housing affordability, B.C. and Canadian economy, interest rates, inflation.
STEEVE MONGRAIN, professor, economics
mongrain@sfu.ca
Expertise: Public economics, law and economics, taxation, economic policies.
DAVID FREEMAN, professor, economics
david_freeman@sfu.ca
Expertise: Behavioural economics, economic decision-making, heuristics and biases.
HOUSING AND URBAN ECONOMY
ANDY YAN, director, The City Program
ayan@sfu.ca
Expertise: Housing, urban planning and regeneration, neighborhood development, applied demographics, transportation, Vancouver real estate.
HEALTH CARE
ANDREW LONGHURST, health policy researcher and PhD candidate in the Department of Geography
andrew_longhurst@sfu.ca
Expertise: Health care delivery and financing, wait times, health workforce, privatization.
Contact
SAM SMITH, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµCommunications & Marketing
236.880.3297 | samuel_smith@sfu.ca
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