Andrew Sancton spent almost his entire academic career in the Department of Political Science at Western University, retiring in 2017. He was Chair of the Department from 2000 until 2005. For many years, he was the director of the Department’s Local Government Program, which offers undergraduate and graduate education in public administration for municipal managers. From 1998 until 2000, he was the president of the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration and a board member of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. In three different decades (1980s, 1990s, and 2000s), he was appointed by the Speaker of the House of Commons as a member of the Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario. Professor Sancton is the author of many publications relating to Canadian local government. His work on the relationship between municipal amalgamations and cost savings won the 1996 J.E. Hodgetts award for the best English-language article in the journal Canadian Public Administration. The fourth edition of his text, Canadian Local Government: An Urban Perspective, was published as an e-book by Oxford University Press.