Edward Jackson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation. Until recently, he served as Chair of the Centre as well as Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs) in the Faculty of Public Affairs. He teaches graduate courses in the School of Public Policy and Administration and is cross-appointed to the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Institute of African Studies.  His teaching and research interests include program management, program evaluation, community-university partnerships, local governance, regional economic development, social enterprise and social finance.  With the Centre, his focus is on two streams of policy-oriented research. One examines the potential for mobilizing university capital pools to expand affordable housing stock, invest in renewable energy technologies and grow social enterprises.  The second line of research tests new tools for measuring “blended value” (social, environmental and financial) created by social enterprises and by the social responsibility activities of major corporations, public and co-operative enterprises.  Dr. Jackson served as the Centre’s founding Director for ten years.  He co-founded, with the J. W. McConnell Family Foundation, the Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program, a pan-Canadian technical- assistance and action-research initiative that made 500 grants to local groups across the country from 1997 to 2008.   He also co-founded the Carleton University - World Bank International Program for Development Evaluation Training. He has served as an advisor to the McConnell Foundation, SSHRC, IDRC, CIDA, UNICEF, the World Bank and to many other non-profit, philanthropic, educational, business, labour and government organizations.   A member of the CIRIEC International Scientific Commission on the Social and Cooperative Economy, he sits on the steering committees of the Causeway Initiative on Social Finance, the Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning, Community-Based Research (Canada), the Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships and the Knowledge Commons Initiative. Dr. Jackson has received the Canadian Evaluation Society Award for Contribution to Evaluation in Canada, Carleton University's Faculty of Public Affairs Teaching Excellence Award, and the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship.