Scott Carson

A. Scott Carson is an emeritus professor at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, specializing in governance and strategy. He was formerly the Stauffer-Dunning Chair of Policy Studies and an executive director of the Queen's School of Policy Studies.

Professor Carson’s career has combined business, government and academe. He was the head of corporate finance for a major Canadian bank, CEO of an Ontario government secretariat, and dean of two Canadian university business schools. Carson is a former chair of the board of Kingston General Hospital, chair of the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce, vice-chair of the Halifax Stanfield International Airport Authority, chair of the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans, chair (acting) of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, and a director of the Economical Insurance Group where he chaired its governance committee. Carson has also been a member of many other corporate and not-for-profit boards.

He is a graduate of Mount Allison and Dalhousie universities, and received his PhD from University College London (UK).

Dr. Carson is the co-editor of three recent books on Canadian healthcare governance published by McGill-Queen's University Press: Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians (with J. Dixon and K. R, Nossal, 2015), Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy (with K. R. Nossal, 2016) and A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda: Policy, Governance and Strategy (with K. R. Nossal, 2018).

Interest Topics

• Ethics
• Governance
• Government & Policy
• Healthcare

Academic Degrees

• PhD Education
  University of London (1980)

• MA Education
  School of Education, Dalhousie University (1974)

• BEd Economics
  School of Education, Dalhousie University (1973)

• BCom Economics
  Joyce Centre for Business Studies, Mount Allison University (1971)

Academic Experience

• Smith School of Business, Queen’s University
  Professor Emeritus (2021 - Present)
  Director, Monieson Centre for Business Research in Healthcare (2011-2015)
  Strategy Area Coordinator (2009-2012)
  Director, Queen’s MBA Program (2007-2011)
  Professor, Strategy & Organization (2006-2020)

• Queen’s School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University
  Executive Director (2015-2016)
  Stauffer-Dunning Chair of Policy Studies (2015-2016)

• Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
  Dean/Professor of Business Policy (1996-2006)

• Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University
  Dean/Professor of Management (1993-1996)

• Faculty of Education, Queen’s University
  Assistant Professor (1982-1984)

• UCL Institute of Education, University of London
  Seminar Tutor (1975-1978)

Books

• Carson, A. Scott, and Kim Richard Nossal, eds. 2018. A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda: Policy, Governance, and Strategy. Queen’s Policy Studies Series. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. xxvi, 249.

• Carson, A. Scott, and Kim Richard Nossal, eds. 2016. Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy. Queen’s Policy Studies Series. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. xiii, 284.

• Carson, A. Scott, Jeffrey Dixon, and Kim Richard Nossal, eds. 2015. Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians. Queen’s Policy Studies Series. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. xv, 276.

• Carson, A. Scott, Mark Baetz, and Shelley McGill. 2008. Codes of Conduct in the Private Sector: Review of the Academic Literature from 1987 to 2007. Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy