Biography
John Richards is trained as an economist. He has written extensively on social policy in Canada, primarily via the C.D. Howe Institute (Howe publications available online at http://www.cdhowe.org ), where he is a research fellow.
He co-edits (with Henry Milner) Inroads, a Canadian policy journal (see http://www.inroadsjournal.ca ).
In addition, he has undertaken teaching and research in Bangladesh over the last three decades. His current research focus is education in South Asia. He is co-author of The Political Economy of Education in South Asia, published by University of Toronto Press in 2022, and reprinted in Bangladesh. His most recent activity is as one of three who prepared a final report on an ambitious NGO project to re-integrate 70,000 children who had dropped out at an early grade or had never enrolled.