The Donner Prize encourages and celebrates excellence in public policy writing by Canadians on topics of great importance to Canadians. The shortlist for the 2015 prize was announced on March 31, 2016.

Robert Lacroix and Louis Maheu, CIRANO Fellows, are nominated for Les Grandes Universités de Recherche (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal) / Leading Research Universities in a Competitive World, translated by Paul Klassen (McGill-Queen’s University Press).