Biography

Dr. Jamie Gillies was born in Victoria, British Columbia and has lived in Vancouver, Washington, D.C., Glasgow, Scotland and Ann Arbor, Michigan before settling here in Fredericton. He has a B.A. from the University of Victoria and completed both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of British Columbia graduating in 2011. In 2007, he was a Canada-United States Fulbright Scholar in Washington, D.C. and a Guest Scholar in the Brookings Institution Governance Studies Program and at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute. From 2009-2012, Dr. Gillies was visiting faculty at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he taught the core graduate seminar on Public Management. He has also taught at the University of Glasgow, the University of Victoria, and at the University of New Brunswick. A political scientist by training, his academic work has focused on political communications and public policy, in particular American presidents and Anglo-American executive leadership, U.S. White House advisers, and the personalization of political leadership. Dr. Gillies has a lifelong passion for politics and public policy and has taught here at St. Thomas since 2010 in the Communications and Public Policy Program and in the Department of Political Science