Pierre Martin is a professor of political science at the Université de Montréal and a research associate at CÉRIUM. His work centers on U.S. politics, international relations, international political economy and public opinion analysis. He has published five books and more than eighty articles or chapters. In 1999-200, he was the William Lyon Mackenzie King visiting associate professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard. In 2008, he was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C. Since 2015, he writes a weekly column, mostly on US and international politics, in the Journal de Montréal and the Journal de Québec. He studied as an undergraduate at Université Laval and the University of British Columbia, and obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University and director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS). She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. From 2013-2016, she served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect. Jennifer has published several books and articles on the ethics and politics of armed conflict, the ‘responsibility to protect’, humanitarian action and civilian protection, the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy. Her most recent edited collection, The Individualization of War, is based on a five-year European Research Council Advanced Grant project investigating protection, liability, and accountability in contemporary armed conflict. Her 2016 book, The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the 21st Century, was based on her CBC Massey Lectures. Jennifer is co-chair of the Committee on Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and sits on the Boards of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Her research and policy engagement have been recognized through her election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and as International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Thomas Juneau is associate professor at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. His research focuses on the Middle East, especially on Iran and Yemen, on the role of intelligence in national security and foreign policy making, and on Canadian foreign and defence policy. He is a non-resident fellow with the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies. From 2003 until 2014, he worked with Canada’s Department of National Defence, mostly as a policy analyst covering the Middle East.

Christina L. Davis is the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics in the Department of Government and Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. Her research interests include the politics and foreign policy of Japan, East Asia, and the European Union as well as the study of international organizations and trade policy. Her research has been published in leading political science journals. She is the author of Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton University Press 2003), and Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press 2012, winner of the international law best book award of the International Studies Association, Ohira Memorial Prize, and co-winner of Chadwick Alger Prize). Her most recent book, Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations, was published by Princeton University Press in 2023. She graduated from Harvard College in 1993, received her PhD in government from Harvard in 2001, and returned to Harvard after 16 years as a professor at Princeton University.

Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. His previous positions include Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center and Co-Director of the CIFAR Program on Successful Societies. Hall is editor of The Politics of Representation in the Global Age (with W. Jacoby, J. Levy and S. Meunier), Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era and Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health (with Michèle Lamont), Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (with P. Culpepper and B. Palier), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (with David Soskice), The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations, Developments in French Politics I and II (with A. Guyomarch and H. Machin), European Labor in the 1980s, the author of Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France and Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies (with G. Evans and S.I. Kim) as well as more than a hundred articles on European politics, policy-making, and comparative political economy. He has served on the editorial boards of many journals and the advisory boards of several European institutes. He is currently working on the political response to economic challenges in postwar Europe, the economic and cultural roots of populism, and the impact of social institutions on inequalities in health and well-being.

Joshua D. Kertzer is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research specializes in the intersection of international security, political psychology, foreign policy, and public opinion. He is the author of Resolve in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016) and Abstraction in Experimental Design: Testing the Tradeoffs (Cambridge University Press, 2023), along with articles appearing in a variety of academic journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, and World Politics. His scholarship has received a range of awards, including the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award, the International Society of Political Psychology’s Alexander George and Jim Sidanius awards, and the American Political Science Association's Merze Tate and Kenneth N. Waltz awards, among others. At Harvard, he teaches classes on American foreign policy, international relations theory, and political psychology in international politics, for which he received Harvard’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. Frieden is the author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015) and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2012). Frieden is also the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2007; second updated edition 2020), of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1992), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.

Dr. Spyros Economides is Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics at the LSE and a Visiting Scholar in the Center for European Studies at Harvard. He was a Research Associate of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College and at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and has acted as Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Eu Committee. He has written about the external relations and security policies of the EU; Europeanisation and foreign policy, and the EU’s relationship with the Western Balkans. He is currently engaged on a project on the Persistence of the West in International Politics.

Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002; Harvard Academy Scholar 2006; Fulbright Scholar 1996) is a Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. He is also the Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research and Director of the Center for Japanese Research at UBC. He is currently on study leave from UBC and a visiting professor at the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (2023-2024). Yves is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Senior Fellow at the University of Alberta’s China Institute. He is an International Steering Committee Member at Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) and a visiting professor at Tokyo University and Sciences Po Paris. He has held other visiting positions at National Chengchi University (Taipei), GRIPS (Tokyo), and the Jakarta School of Public Policy (Indonesia). In June-November 2022, he served as Member of Canada’s Advisory Committee on the Indo-Pacific Strategy of Canada to the Foreign Minister. In November 2017, he was made a Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite by the French President. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of East Asia and on global economic and environmental governance. His latest book is The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox. August 2021. University Press (with post-2021 updates found here), with work forthcoming on a new book (titled Game-Changer: How Covid-19 Has Reshaped Societies and Politics in East Asia).

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Patrick Holdich OBE is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. Until 2022, he was a senior UK civil servant in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and retired as Head of the Research Analysts, the research department and internal think-tank of the FCDO. He studied at Bangor University and the LSE and had a brief early academic career in the 1980’s at Queen Mary College, London, as a Lecturer in History. He joined the FCO in 1985 and worked for over 35 years a career specialist on North American politics and history. This included two diplomatic postings to Canada (Ottawa, Montreal). Aside from conducting in-house research within the FCO to help shape UK government policy, he was a member of the UK government’s Professional Heads of Intelligence Analysts and maintained an active relationship with a range of UK and international research centres and think-tanks. His primary focus as a Fellow at the UCL Institute is on Canadian politics and contemporary history.

On October 12, 2022 the Prime Minister appointed David Morrison as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Prior to this, David served as Deputy Minister of International Trade and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the G7 Summit. Before that he was Foreign and Defence Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the G7 Summit. Previously at Global Affairs Canada, David held the positions of Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and Assistant Deputy Minister
(Americas) from 2013 to 2017. David began his career with the UN Development Programme in North Korea in the late 1980s. He served as a political officer at the Canadian Embassy in Havana from 1991 to 1994, and as a Director and Member of the Executive Board at the World
Economic Forum in Geneva from 1995 to 1999, where he was responsible for the
program of the annual summit in Davos. David holds a Master’s of Philosophy in international relations from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Arts in history from Yale University.

Kim Richard Nossal is professor emeritus of political studies in the Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1977, and taught at McMaster University in Hamilton from 1976 to 2001 before moving to Queen’s University in 2001 to head the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s (2001–09), and then served as the director of the CIDP (2011–13) and executive director of the Queen’s School of Policy Studies (2013–15), retiring in 2020. He is a former editor of International Journal, the quarterly of the Canadian International Council, Canada’s institute of international affairs; a former president of the Canadian Political Science Association; and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of a number of works on Canadian foreign and defence policy, including The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, co-authored with Stéphane Roussel and Stéphane Roussel. This text has gone through four editions in English, two editions in French as Politique internationale et défense au Canada et au Québec, and was translated into Chinese in 2018. Nossal’s latest book, Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World, on the implications for Canadian foreign policy of the America First movement, was published by Dundurn Press in 2023.

Bob Rae is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York. He served as Premier of Ontario from 1990-1995, interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011-2013 and was appointed as Canada’s Special Envoy to Myanmar (2017) and Canada’s Special Envoy on Humanitarian and Refugee Issues (2020). Mr. Rae taught law and public policy at the University of Toronto and was a partner and senior counsel to the law firm OKT LLP, specializing in indigenous law and constitutional issues. Bob Rae is a Privy Councillor, a Companion of the Order of Canada, and a member of the Order of Ontario.

Joseph Young is a professor at American University with a joint appointment in the School of Public Affairs and the School of International Service. His research seeks to understand the cross-national causes and consequences of political violence. He has published a book on torture policy and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles across academic disciplines, including political science, economics, criminology, and international studies. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, and USAID.

Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, The Spectator, The Critic, and The Guardian. He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics "Meanwhile in Beijing" is available on BBC Sounds. He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the UK Historical Association. He previously taught at Oxford and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Antonia Maioni is the 2023-24 William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Harvard University, in the Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Department of Government. Professor Maioni’s research interests include comparative politics, public policy, Canadian and Quebec politics. Professor Maioni holds an appointment at McGill University in the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy in the School of Population and Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and is an Associate Member in the Department of Political Science and in the Desautels Faculty of Management. Previously, she served as Dean of Arts at McGill University from 2016 to 2021, and as Associate Vice President for Research and International Relations from 2014 to 2016. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, an MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and a BA from Universite Laval. She is serving as a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation for 2023 – 2026 Scientific Cycle on Canada in the World: The Future of Foreign Policy.

With a strong interest in global issues, Robert Greenhill has combined a career in international business with a commitment to public policy. Robert Greenhill is Executive Chairman, Global Canada Initiative, and Professor of Practice at the Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University. Previous roles include Managing Director and Chief Business Officer of the World Economic Forum, Deputy Minister and President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and President and Chief Operating Officer of the International Group of Bombardier Inc. Robert started his career with McKinsey & Company. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the KBF Canada Foundation and of the Advisory Board of the Banff Forum. Robert has a BA from the University of Alberta, MA from the London School of Economics, and MBA from INSEAD.

Kathryn Stoner is the Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2004, she was on the faculty at Princeton University, jointly appointed to the Department of Politics and the Princeton School for International and Public Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School).  Her work is focused primarily on contemporary Russian foreign and domestic politics. In addition to dozens of articles and book chapters, she is the author or co-editor of six books: Transitions to Democracy: A Comparative Perspective, written and edited with Michael A. McFaul (Johns Hopkins 2013);  Autocracy and Democracy in the Post-Communist World, co-edited with Valerie Bunce and Michael A. McFaul (Cambridge, 2010); Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia (Cambridge, 2006); After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions (Cambridge, 2004), coedited with Michael McFaul; and Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance (Princeton, 1997). Her most recent book is Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2021). She received a BA and MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Government from Harvard University.

 

Kerry Buck (BA Hons, Political Science, University of Western Ontario; Common Law and Civil Law, LLB, BCL, McGill University) joined Canada’s then Department of External Affairs and International Trade in 1991. She most recently was Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Board responsible for economic sector. Prior to that she served as Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council (NATO). Previous senior diplomatic positions include Political Director and Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and Political Affairs, Assistant Deputy Minister for Africa, for Latin America and the Caribbean, head of the Afghanistan Task Force, Director General for the Middle East and Maghreb and Director for Human Rights. She was also posted to the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Outside of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, Ms. Buck served in the Privy Council Office as Director of Operations for Machinery of Government Secretariat, as Director of Policy and International Programs at the Canadian Human Rights Commission, with the International Development Research Centre and the Constitutional Law Bureau of the Office of the Attorney General of Ontario. Ms. Buck speaks English and French. She is married to Michael Pearson and has a son and three step-daughters.