| J. Stefan Dupré | |
| Birth Date: | 3 November 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
| Death Place: | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Fields: | Political Science |
| Thesis Title: | Fiscal policy in Newfoundland |
| Thesis Url: | https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990038381250203941/catalog |
| Thesis Year: | 1958 |
Joseph Stefan Dupré (November 3, 1936 – December 6, 2012) was a Canadian political scientist, noted for his service to education and to the Government of Canada, in which he served many posts. He was a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and served as President of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
He received a B.A. from the University of Ottawa in 1955, a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 1958 at the age of 21.[1]
He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution in 1957. He became a professor of political science at Harvard in 1958 and a secretary of Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration.[1] He became a professor at the University of Toronto in 1963,[2] a full time professor in 1966,[1] chaired the Department of Political Economy from 1970 to 1974,[1] and would later become the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies.[3]
Dupré was known for his public service. Among these included being the founding chair of the Ontario Council on University Affairs from 1974 to 1977,[2] a council that advised the provincial government on university funding and held public meetings.[4] He was a member of the National Research Council Canada[2] and a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and in that capacity would serve on various governmental committees.[5]
He chaired a royal commission, the Royal Commission on Matters of Health and Safety Arising from the Use of Asbestos in Ontario.[6] He served as an official advisor to the ministries of education in Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.[7]
Most notably, he served as president and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research from 1996 to 2000, overseeing the institute's early work on superconductivity and gravity.
He was a recipient of the 1984 Vanier Award and became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1986.[8] He became a member of the Order of Ontario in 1992.[9] He would later be awarded the 2002 Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee Medal[10] and the 2012 Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Medal.[11]
He was awarded honorary degrees from Université Laval in 1976,[12] McMaster University in May 1977,[13] the University of Ottawa in 1977,[14] and the University of Toronto on December 25, 1999.[15]
The J. Stefan Dupré Memorial Scholarship in Canadian Politics and the J. Stefan Dupré Book Prize awarded to political science students at the University of Toronto are named after him.[16] [17]
He was born on November 3, 1936, in Quebec City.[2] He married Anne Louise in 1963.[1] They had two children, Sam Barret and Maurice Robert.[1]
He died on December 6, 2012, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Sunnybrook Hospital at the age of 76.[1]