Editors

About the Editor

​Alex C. Michalos is a Canadian political scientist and philosopher known for his work in quality-of-life research. He is professor emeritus of political science and former chancellor at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he served as the founding director of the Institute for Social Research and Evaluation. Before joining the University of Northern British Columbia, he taught at the University of Guelph from 1966 to 1994. He served as senior research advisor to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, and continues to serve as a member of their Canadian Research Advisory Group. He served as president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies from 1999 to 2000. He is the founder or co-founder of seven peer-reviewed academic journals, several with Springer Nature, and the chief editor of the hugely successful Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (1.4 mn downloads, 3k+ citations). He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 2010.