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Eugene Lang (writer)

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Eugene Lang is Assistant Professor (continuing adjunct), School of Policy Studies, Queen's University. He was a former chief of staff to two of Canada’s Liberal ministers of defence from 2002 to 2006.[1]

Career

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Lang worked in the federal government in advisory roles. Lang worked as chief of staff to two Ministers of National Defence (John McCallum and Bill Graham), chief of staff to the Secretary of State (Finance), Senior Economist, Finance Canada, as an economic policy advisor to Herb Gray, and as a policy advisor to the Solicitor General of Canada.[2]

Lang works at Queen's University, where he teaches in the MPA and Professional MPA (mid career) programs.[citation needed]

Lang co-authored, with Janice Gross Stein, the book The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (Penguin, 2007).[3] The book won the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing and was short listed for the Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy. The book was also the basis for a documentary film produced by Global Television, titled Revealed: The Path to War.

Education

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Lang was educated at University of Western Ontario (B.A., M.A.), Queen's University (M.P.A.) and the London School of Economics (M.Sc.), where he studied as a Chevening Scholar.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ On the Line, commentary.ca, retrieved 8 December 2011
  2. ^ a b "Canada 2020". Archived from the original on 2012-09-20. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
  3. ^ http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670067220,00.html?/THE_UNEXPECTED_WAR_Janice_Gross_Stein Publisher notice