Michael Adams is Founder and President of the Environics Institute, which he launched in 2006 after many years heading Environics Research Group which he co-founded in 1970.

Michael Adams is a noted commentator on social values and social change.  He has written seven books including the bestselling Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada, and the Myth of Converging Values, which won the Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy in 2003. His most recent book (published in 2017) is Could it Happen Here? Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit.

He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Toronto Metropolitan University and in 2016 was awarded the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honour.