Dr. Lori Turnbull is the Director of the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University. She is a fellow at the Public Policy Forum, a freelance writer with The Globe and Mail, and the deputy editor for Canadian Government Executive magazine. Her research and teaching focus on parliamentary politics and governance, democratic institutions, and public and political ethics.

She has published in Canadian Public Administration, Canadian Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, Canadian Parliamentary Review, How Ottawa Spends, the Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution, and has authored numerous book chapters.

Her book Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government, co-authored with Peter Aucoin and Mark Jarvis, won the Donner Prize in 2011 and the Donald Smiley Prize in 2012. With Oxford University Press, she has edited the forthcoming Politics: An Introduction (third edition) with George MacLean and Duncan Wood.