Eugene Lang is Assistant Professor (continuing adjunct), School of Policy Studies, Queen's University.
Lang worked as chief of staff to two Ministers of National Defence (John McCallum and Bill Graham), chief of staff to the Secretary of State (Finance), Senior Economist, Finance Canada, as an economic policy advisor to Herb Gray, and as a policy advisor to the Solicitor General of Canada.
[citation needed] Lang co-authored, with Janice Gross Stein, the book The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (Penguin, 2007).
[3] The book won the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing and was short listed for the Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy.
The book was also the basis for a documentary film produced by Global Television, titled Revealed: The Path to War.