Donald Joseph Savoie CC ONB FRSC (born 1947) is a Canadian public administration and regional economic development scholar.

[3] His publications include Federal–Provincial Collaboration, Breaking the Bargain: Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament, Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics, Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy,[4] and What Is Government Good At?

His biography Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose was shortlisted for the National Business Book Award (2014).

[7] Donald J. Savoie has won numerous prizes and awards, including: inaugural recipient of the Royal Society of Canada’s Yvan Allaire Medal for outstanding contribution in governance (2018),[8] the 2015–2016 Donner Prize[9] and the inaugural recipient of the 2016 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-fiction[10] for What Is Government Good At?, the 2015 Killam Prize in Social Sciences,[11] the Order of New Brunswick (2011),[12] finalist for the SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research (2003),[13] the Vanier Gold Medal (1999),[14] honoured by the Public Policy Forum at its twelfth annual testimonial awards (1999),[15] made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1993),[6] elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1992),[16] selected the Université de Moncton's alumnus of the year (1991).

[17] Three of his books were short listed for the Donner Prize,[18] The Politics of Public Spending in Canada was the inaugural recipient of the Smiley prize (1992)[19] awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association for the best book in the study of government and politics in Canada and Les défis de l’industrie des pêches au Nouveau-Brunswick was awarded “Le Prix France-Acadie” (1993).