About

Marco Navarro-Génie, BA (Concordia University), MA, PhD (University of Calgary), is Frontier’s Vice President of Research and Policy.

Dr. Navarro-Génie was born in Nicaragua and grew up as an adolescent in Montreal, where he fled the communist regime that strangles his native country to this day. In search of broader horizons, he moved to Alberta in 1990. After two decades in academe, he joined the free-market public policy world.

Dr. Navarro-Génie was Frontier’s Research VP (2010-2013) and the fourth Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) president based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the co-founder and director of Nurses for Sustainable Care (NFSC) and the founder of the Haultain Research Institute. He is a former director of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights and Democracy), served on the board of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom (2012-2018), and was a board member, vice president and president of CIVITAS (2013-2019). He is the recipient of a King Charles III Coronation Medal for exemplary public service.

Dr. Navarro-Génie’s academic work focuses on radical revolutionary movements and cultural and political identity. He regularly comments on government, politics, and public policy issues in local, national, and international media. He is the author of hundreds of articles, several policy reports, and three books. His latest book, co-written with Barry Cooper, is Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic (2023).