Michael Haan

Dr. Michael Haan (PhD, University of Toronto, 2006) is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Population and Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick. From 2005-2010, Dr. Haan held an academic appointment at the University of Alberta, where he was Winspear-Archer Research Fellow in Immigration and Social Policy. He is also research associate at the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Labour at the University of Lethbridge, and at the McGill Centre for Population Dynamics.

His research interests intersect the areas of demography, immigrant settlement, labour market integration, and data development. Dr. Haan is widely consulted by provincial and federal governments for policy advice in the areas of immigration, settlement services, the Canadian labour market, and population aging. In collaboration with the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Government of New Brunswick Executive Council Office, and the New Brunswick Regional Development Corporation, he is co-director (with Ted McDonald, UNB Economics) of the newly established New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training. This institute uses administrative data to provide an evidence base for provincial public policy.

Dr. Haan is currently investigator or co-investigator on over six million dollars of research focused on immigrant settlement, developing welcoming communities, and identifying the factors that predict successful retention of newcomers. Since receiving his PhD in 2006, he has already published over 50 articles and reports on these topics. As of July 2015, he will be moving to the University of Western Ontario to join the department of Sociology.