Marco Navarro-Génie

Marco Navarro-Génie, BA (Concordia University), MA, PhD (University of Calgary) is the founding president of the Haultain Research Institute. Dr. Navarro-Génie was born in Nicaragua and grew up as an adolescent in Montreal, where he fled the communist regime that strangles his native country to this day. In search of broader horizons, he moved to Alberta in 1990. After two decades in academe, he joined the free-market public policy world as Vice President of Research at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. He then became the fourth President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and served briefly as Vice President for The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. He served as board member for the Canadian Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, and is a former president of CIVITAS. He is also founder and Director of Nurses for Sustainable Care (NFSC). Dr. Navarro-Génie taught political Science in the Department of Policy Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary, at St. Mary’s College, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), the University of Calgary, and Concordia University in Montreal. Dr. Navarro-Génie comments regularly in local, national and international media on issues of government, politics, and public policy. He is author of hundreds of articles, several policy reports, and three books. His latest book, co-written with Barry Cooper, Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic (2023), is an AMAZON.ca best seller.