Budd L. Hall, PhD

Budd L. Hall, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Community Development in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, and Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. Budd’s friendship with Pat, Walter Rodney, and the family goes back to the early 1970s at the University of Dar es Salaam. Budd was the founding Director of the University of Victoria Office of Community-based Research and is a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. Budd served as Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, Chair of the Adult Education Department at the University of Toronto from 1995-2001, and as Secretary-General of the International Council for Adult Education. Budd has worked in Nigeria, Tanzania, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Thailand, Yemen, Uganda, England, and the United States. He has done both theoretical and practical work for almost 40 years in various aspects of community-based adult education and learning and participatory research. He has served as President, Chair, or Vice-President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, the International Council for Adult Education, the Canadian Network for Democratic Learning, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and the Coady International Institute Advisory Board. He is a member of the International Adult Education Hall of Fame and was selected for the 2005 Canadian Bureau of International Education Innovation in International Education Award. He was granted an Honorary Doctorate by St. Francis Xavier University in 2011. He is the husband of Dr. Darlene Clover, father of Dana and Shawn Hall, Grandfather of Quincy Pugh Hall, Leo Ellis Hall, and Ashton Edward Hall. He is also a poet.