PATRIK MARIER
Full professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.
Patrik Marier
Professor of Political Science | Concordia University
Patrik Marier is a full professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. He holds a doctorate in political science and a certificate in Western European studies from the University of Pittsburgh (USA). He specializes in comparative public policy with a primary focus on aging and social policy.
Professor Marier held the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Public Policy from 2005 to 2015, as well as the Concordia University Research Chair in Aging and Public Policy from 2015 to 2020.
Since 2013, Patrik Marier has been Scientific Director of the Centre de recherche et d’expertise en gérontologie sociale (CREGÉS) at CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, a research infrastructure renewal awarded the mention of excellence in 2014. This status has enabled it to develop numerous collaborations with various organizations in the field of social gerontology.
From 2018 to 2023, Patrik Marier also held the position of principal investigator of the FRQSC Vieillissements, exclusions sociales et solidarités (VIES) partnership research team .
He is currently a member of Concordia University’s engAGE Research Centre on Aging, and a co-investigator in the Aging in Data partnership. He is also a member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations (CIRANO).
Thanks to his leadership and unifying qualities, Professor Marier collaborates with a wide range of researchers. His expertise is frequently sought by various national and international government bodies in the field of aging, as well as by scientific councils in Canada and abroad.
He edited the book Le vieillissement de la population et les politiques publiques : enjeux d’ici et d’ailleurs (2012), and co-edited Getting Wise about Getting Old: Debunking Myths about Aging (2020).
In 2021, he published The Four Lenses of Population Aging: Planning for the Future in Canada’s Provinces, published by the University of Toronto Press, in which he examines how Canada’s provinces are preparing for an aging population.