Class of 1965 Professor of Leadership
Professor, Department of Political Science & Economics, Royal Military College of Canada
Cross-appointed, Policy Studies & Political Studies, Queen's University
Honorary Research Fellow, University of East Anglia (UK)
Research Interests:
Electoral Integrity
Election Management & Administration
Cyber-Security & Election Technologies
Campaign Finance
Holly Ann Garnett is the Class of 1965 Professor of Leadership and a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada. She is cross-appointed faculty in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University and an Honourary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia.
Garnett will be inducted as a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in November 2026. Her achievements include the 2024-2025 Fulbright Research Chair in Canada-US Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and the 2023 Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research at the Royal Military College of Canada.
Garnett’s research examines how electoral integrity can be strengthened throughout the electoral cycle, including the role of election management, registration and voting, cyber-security and election technologies, civic literacy, and campaign finance. She is co-director of the Electoral Integrity Project, a global network of academics and practitioners that engages in empirical research, publicly-accessible data collection, and stakeholder engagement on issues relating to election quality around the world.
She is the author of Who Gives? Who Gets? Who Wins?: Money in Canadian Federal Elections (University of Toronto Press, 2026) and What is Electoral Integrity? Conceptualising Election Quality in an Age of Complexity (Cambridge University Press, 2026, with Toby S. James). She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Electoral Integrity (Oxford, 2025, with Toby S. James), and the volume Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy (MQUP, 2022; edited with Michael Pal).
Garnett holds a PhD in Political Science from McGill University (2017), a Master of Arts from Queen’s University (2011), and a Bachelor of Arts from Nipissing University (2010). She was an Endeavour Research Fellow at The Australian National University (2017), a visiting fellow at the Åbo Akademi, Finland (2017), a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney (2014), and a Killam Fellow at Cornell University (2009).