J. Douglas Willms is professor and director of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). He holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Development at UNB and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the International Academy of Education, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Dr. Willms is the editor of Vulnerable Children: Findings from Canada's National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth, (University of Alberta Press, 2002) which received the Canadian Policy Research Award in 2002, and the author of Student engagement at school: A sense of belonging and participation (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and Monitoring School Performance: A Guide for Educators (Falmer Press, 1992). He has also has also published nearly two hundred research articles and monographs pertaining to youth literacy, children's health, the accountability of schooling systems, and the assessment of national reforms. Dr. Willms and his colleagues designed Tell Them From Me, an evaluation system for the continuous monitoring of school climate that provides information that can be used directly by superintendents, principals, and teachers to help meet the needs of vulnerable youth, and to assess whether interventions developed as part of at-risk initiatives are having their intended effect. Dr. Willms is known for his training of new investigators in the analysis of complex multilevel data. His current interests include the examination of family, school and community factors that contribute to the health and well-being of children and adolescents, and the use of continuous monitoring for evaluating school reforms. Dr. Willms received a Ph.D. in education in 1983 from Stanford University.