David MacAlister

David MacAlister is an associate professor in Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where he has taught since 2002. He was the director of the School of Criminology from 2016 until 2022. Professor MacAlister has a background in law and criminology, holding law degrees from the University of British Columbia (J.D.) and Queen’s University (LL.M.) and criminology degrees from SFU (B.A. and M.A.). He has served as a member of the Senate at SFU and is cur- rently a member of the SFU Research Ethics Board. He was the president of the Western Society of Criminology (WSC) from 2020-2021 and 2022-2023. He served on the Board of WSC from 2014 until 2024 and is currently the secretary-treasurer of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform.