Dr. Rick Stapenhurst is an Associate Professor at McGill University. He is a former board member at the Parliamentary Centre, a member of Transparency International, and the North American co-chair of the Research Committee of Legislative Specialists.
Prior to joining McGill University, he worked at the World Bank, concentrating on anti-corruption and parliamentary development and writing extensively on these issues.
Dr. Stapenhurst is an accomplished author; his most recent publications include Anti-Corruption Evidence: The Role of Parliaments in Curbing Corruption (Springer, 2020), a book which he co-edited with Rasheed Draman, Brooke Larson and Anthony Staddon; Legislative Decline in the 21st Century, co-edited with Irina Khmelko and Michael Mezey (Routledge, 2000) and Developing an index of EX_POST Parliamentary Oversight of Parliamentary Finance (Journal of Legislative Studies, 2019) which he co-authored with Kerry Jacobs and Cedric Eboutou.
Dr. Rick Stapenhurst holds a doctorate in Business and Commerce from the Australian National University, where he researched presidential and parliamentary systems of government.