Michael P. A. Murphy is the director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University and president of the Canadian region of the International Studies Association. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, where his dissertation won the 2022 Joseph De Koninck Thesis Prize for making an outstanding contribution to interdisciplinary knowledge.

He is a former Digital Policy Hub fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation. At Queen’s, Michael has held appointments as the Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Democracy, a Mathews Fellow in Public Policy, and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow.