Craig Martin, PhD in Agricultural Economics and Business, University of Guelph

Assistant Professor of Business and Organizational Administration
Teaching areas: economics, accounting, finance, decision-science

In his research, Craig Martin has prepared extensive analyses of the demand for dairy products in Canada. His academic interests include the challenges facing family-owned businesses, having himself grown up in an entrepreneurial family. He is interested in the dynamics of non-profit organizations. "The same principles that govern businesses apply to non-profit groups," he says. He is especially interested in how business and financial, monetary, and government policies affect economic development in both the developed and developing world.

Contact: cmartin:@:cmu.ca or 204.487.3300 ext. 365

James Magnus-Johnston, MPhil Economics (Land Economy), Cambridge University

Lecturer in Business

James Magnus-Johnston's research falls within the transdisciplinary field of ecological economics, and he teaches in a number of relevant subject areas across politics and business. He is presently a PhD researcher at McGill University, where he is studying the roles that collective emotional processing, grief, and anxiety play in fostering or preventing social change; he also holds an MPhil from Cambridge University, where he studied the social and ecological dynamics of the debt-based money system.

Outside of teaching, James is the Co-director of the CMU Centre for Resilience and a Board Director with the Assiniboine Credit Union. He previously worked as a financial counsellor and business advisor, in public policy positions, and as a social entrepreneur—co-founding a food cooperative (The Farm Fresh Food Hub), a coffee shop (Fools + Horses), a composting service (Compost Winnipeg), and an off-grid cohousing community.

Contact: jmagnus-johnston:@:cmu.ca

Jerry Buckland, PhD Economics, University of Manitoba

Professor of International Development Studies

Jerry Buckland has been a Professor of International Development Studies for over 25 years and before that time worked for as an Socio-economist for an NGO in Bangladesh for five years. Jerry’s research and teaching is in an area that encompasses community-economics and includes financial wellbeing studies (micro-finance, financial inclusion, financial literacy), research and evaluation methods, community-based development, and rural and Indigenous Peoples’ development.

Contact: j.buckland:@:uwinnipeg.ca or 204.487.3300 ext 642

Ray Vander Zaag, PhD, Carleton University

Director

Contact: rvanderzaag:@:cmu.ca or 204.487.3300 ext. 643

Justin Neufeld, MA, McMaster University

Lecturer in Philosophy
Teaching area for business: business ethics

Justin Neufeld's academic interests concern how the human person has been understood by ancient, medieval, and modern writers as they have contemplated the question of justice, which is the question of what we owe others and what is owed to ourselves. Students in business will engage this history of reflection on justice in order to bring its resources to bear on the question of what constitutes good business today.