Edward T. Jackson

Edward Jackson is Senior Research Fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, and Adjunct Professor with the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, at Carleton University. His current research interests include inclusive employment in the energy transition, the gender dimensions of sustainable finance, community-university partnerships for affordable housing, social innovation, and impact management and measurement in development finance.

Dr. Jackson is a retired tenured faculty member in the graduate School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton, where he taught for more than two decades, and a former Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs) in the Faculty of Public Affairs. In 1993, with the McConnell Foundation, he co-founded the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation. From 1997 to 2008, he directed the Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program, a pan-Canadian grant-making initiative.

In 2001, he co-founded the World Bank-Carleton International Program for Development Evaluation Training. In 2011, he served as founding Principal Investigator for the $3M, SSHRC-funded Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement project that advanced knowledge partnerships and policy change in seven provinces. In 2021, with his wife Magda Seydegart, he co-founded the Jackson Family Scholarship in Community Engagement in the Master of Philanthropy and Non-Profit Leadership at Carleton University.

Dr. Jackson has served as a senior advisor to foundations, development agencies, development banks, impact funds, universities, governments, and non-governmental organizations in 60 countries. An active, multidisciplinary scholar, his published work has been cited in more than 200 peer-reviewed social-science journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Engaged Scholar Journal, a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, Council member of the International Evaluation Academy, and served as visiting lecturer at Trent, Victoria and Warsaw universities.