CAQC Members

Dr. Jeffrey Church is an economist with extensive expertise in industrial organization, competition policy, and regulatory economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (First Class Honours) from the University of Calgary. Dr. Church has had a long academic career defined by excellence in teaching, graduate supervision, and scholarly research, with leadership roles in developing and improving degree programs. He is widely recognized for his work as an expert witness and has testified on a wide range of regulatory and competition policy matters. His experience spans academic scholarship, applied policy analysis, and public interest decision-making.

Dr. Joy A. Fehr is a senior post-secondary and health-system leader with extensive experience in executive administration, governance, and academic leadership across Canada and the United States. Her leadership career also includes roles as Provost, Associate Provost, Vice President for Academic Administration, and Dean, with comprehensive responsibility for academic quality, accreditation, budgeting, faculty development, and institutional effectiveness. Dr. Fehr holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Calgary.

Dr. Tim Heath holds a PhD in English from the University of Alberta. He has served as an Associate Professor, Department Chair, Associate Dean, Dean, and Vice President Academic. This variety of roles, in a career involving a number of Albertan post-secondary institutions, has given him substantial experience in guiding and leading institutions to develop new degrees through Quality Council protocols and in upholding quality assurance norms in hiring, instruction, research, institutional service, budgeting, program and faculty development, monitoring, as well as cyclical review.

Dr. Christopher Hosgood is a Dean Emeritus at the University of Lethbridge. He recently was the Interim Deputy Provost at the University of Lethbridge and held other senior positions such as Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science. He has served on many boards including the Alberta SPOR Steering Committee, Alberta Academic Health Network Executive Committee, the Alberta HSPnet Management Committee and the Alberta Gambling Research Institute. Dr. Hosgood holds a PhD in History from the University of Manitoba, Master of Philosophy degree in Victorian Studies from the University of Leicester, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Victoria.

Dr. Sam Hossack is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Military, Security, and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary and a Fellow with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network. She is co-author of the Canadian Historical Association's "Future of the History PhD in Canada" Report and has previously sat as a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Calgary and the Senate of the University of Waterloo. In addition to teaching and research, Sam has worked as an Educational Developer, designing and implementing programs to improve teaching and learning outcomes in post-secondary institutions. Dr. Hossack holds degrees in History, Strategic Studies, and English Literature, as well as certifications in University Teaching and Instructional Skills.

Ron Kneebone is Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Calgary. From 2006 to 2009 he was Director of the Institute for Advanced Policy Research at the University of Calgary. In 2009, he joined the newly established School of Public Policy, where his initial focus was on research into the finances of Canadian provincial governments. While Prof. Kneebone continues to work closely with co-authors to study the political economy of provincial budgetary choices, for the past 15 years, he has also engaged with community organizations to investigate issues of homelessness, poverty, and domestic violence. This close engagement includes serving on the Board of Directors of the Calgary Homeless Foundation from 2016 to 2019. Professor Kneebone is co-author of two undergraduate textbooks in economics and is currently a Research Fellow with the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.

Dr. Remkes Kooistra is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics at The King’s University in Edmonton, where he also serves as the chair of the Interdisciplinary Science program. He has held other governance and leadership roles at The King’s University, including chair of Faculty Council, chair and negotiator for the labour-oriented Faculty Staff Association, and chair of an institution-wide Governance Review. He is chair of the board of the Post-Secondary Prison Education Foundation, a non-profit that organizes and funds prison education projects; he also serves as one of their volunteer instructors offering courses to inmates in several Canadian prisons. He holds a Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Alberta in the areas of Algebraic and Differential Geometry.

Dr. Amit Kumar is a Canada Research Chair in Assessment of Energy Systems (Tier 1) and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta (U of A). He has served as the NSERC/Cenovus/Alberta Innovates Associate Industrial Research Chair in Energy and Environmental Systems Engineering since September 2012. He is the Cenovus Energy Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering and also the Deputy Director of Future Energy Systems. Dr. Kumar has served on several expert panels including the European Commission, NSF (USA), the House of Commons and the Senate of Canada for his expertise on energy issues. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and was listed by Reuters in the “The Reuters Hot List,” a list of the world’s top climate scientists according to how influential they are. He has co-authored more than 220 peer-reviewed journal publications. He was awarded the Young Engineer of the Year award by Canadian Society of Bioengineering for his outstanding contribution in the areas of bioenergy and biofuels. Dr. Kumar completed his BSc in Energy Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and moved to the Asian Institute of Technology for his MSc in Energy Technology. He joined the University of British Columbia as a postdoctoral fellow in 2004 after receiving his PhD from the U of A that same year.

Dr. Kevin McQuillan began his career at Western University where he was chair of the Department of Sociology and was involved with the assessment of the university’s graduate programs. He represented Western as its Academic Colleague at the Council of Ontario Universities. Dr. McQuillan came to the University of Calgary in 2007 in the role of Dean of Social Sciences. He led the amalgamation of four faculties to form the integrated Faculty of Arts, which he then led as Dean. Dr. McQuillan was Deputy Provost for University of Calgary overseeing its Quality Assurance Unit Review Processes. During his term, he was involved in the reviews of several faculties including Law, Education, Science, Engineering, and Veterinary Medicine. Dr. McQuillan is a Research Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.

Dr. Erasmus Okine is Provost and VP (Academic), Emeritus and VP (Research), Emeritus of the University of Lethbridge since 2025. He was gifted the Blackfoot name, Ninaisamotoo (man who arrived long ago, kindred spirit) in 2022 for his committed work with the community. 

His professional experience also includes positions as Associate Vice-President (Research) and Associate Vice-President (Academic) at the University of Alberta from 2024-2025 after being Chair of the University of Alberta’s Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science (AFNS) from 2005 to 2014; Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development Chair in Ruminant Nutrition and Metabolism in AFNS from 2001to 2007; Senior Research Scientist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development  from 1994 to 2001.

His involvement in governance brought him to take on the roles of member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee, from 2017 to 2020; Board Member for Genome Alberta from 2016 -2020; member of the “Members” (a higher governing body similar to a company’s shareholder but representing the Canadian public) of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) since 2022; and is Board Chair of the Centre for Frontier Engineering Research (C-FER) since 2024.

Some notable distinctions in his career include:

• Fellow of the Canadian Society of Animal Science (2009)
• Fellow of the International College of Nutrition (2006)
• Alberta Premier’s Silver Award for Excellence in Agricultural Research (2000)

 Erasmus Okine holds a PhD in animal nutrition and digestive physiology from the University of Alberta.

Dr. Annie Prud’homme-Généreux was one of the founders of Quest University Canada and served as founding Chair of Life Sciences and later Vice President Research and Administration. She also served as Vice President of Science at TELUS World of Science – Edmonton and Director of Continuing Studies and Executive Education at Capilano University. She has served on numerous boards, notably as a director of the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce. She holds graduate degrees in the physical sciences, humanities, and soon in the social sciences (distance education), and is a recipient of the 2012 National Association of Biology Teachers’ Award for innovative teaching. 

Dr. Cynthia Zutter is a Professor of Anthropology at MacEwan University and former Vice Provost and AVP Research and Teaching. She has worked as an archaeologist throughout the North Atlantic region, examining past interactions and the interplay of humans in their environment and she has held multiple federally funded research grants. Dr. Zutter serves as director and committee chair on multiple not for profit organizations both locally and regionally.