{"id":153841,"date":"2017-04-14T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irpp-policy-options.local\/authors\/chris-macdonald\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:11:08","slug":"chris-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/authors\/chris-macdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris MacDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris MacDonald, Ph.D., is Director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre and Founding Director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Education and Research program, at Ryerson University&#8217;s Ted Rogers School of Management. He is also a Nonresident Senior Scholar at Duke University&#8217;s Kenan Institute for Ethics. His research interests range across the ethics of commerce, health policy, the professional ethics, and the social implications of technology. MacDonald is the author of more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, a best-selling textbook on critical thinking, and the highly-regarded Business Ethics Blog (<a href=\"https:\/\/businessethicsblog.com\/\">businessethicsblog.com<\/a>). He is also a founding co-editor and co-publisher of a cutting-edge online publication, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bejr.org\/\">The Business Ethics Journal Review<\/a><\/em>. The views expressed here are his alone, and not the views of the Leadership Centre, the School of Management, or Ryerson University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":227504,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false},"class_list":["post-153841","authors","type-authors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chris MacDonald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/authors\/chris-macdonald\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chris MacDonald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chris MacDonald, Ph.D., is Director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre and Founding Director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Education and Research program, at Ryerson University&#8217;s Ted Rogers School of Management. 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