Biography Jill Sinclair is Executive Director, External Engagement and Partnerships, at the Canadian Defence Academy of the Department of National Defence, where she was Assistant Deputy Minister (Policy) from 2008 to 2014. From 2006 to 2008, Jill served as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy at the Privy Council Office. Until 2006, at the ...
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Biography One of Canada's leading journalists, Jeffrey Simpson was national affairs columnist at The Globe and Mail for nearly three decades. The author of eight books, he has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes -- the Governor-General's award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award ...
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Biography Sandelle Scrimshaw has more than 37 years of experience in the Canadian public service and 25 years of service as a Canadian diplomat. She served with the Department of the Secretary of State and National Museums of Canada before joining the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and then the Department of External Affairs. From 1993 to 1997, she was...
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Biography Morris Rosenberg is currently President and CEO of the Trudeau Foundation. Prior to this appointment, he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (2010-2013), Deputy Minister of Health Canada (2004-2010) and Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada (1998-2004). Mr. Rosenberg began his public service career with the Department of Justice i...
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Biography Tom Ring has nearly 40 years of federal government experience. Most recently, he served as Assistant Deputy Minister (Acquisitions) at Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC), and Assistant Deputy Minister (Public Affairs) at the Department of National Defence (DND). While at PWGSC, he was responsible for all defence acquisitions and was the govern...
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Biography Michael Presley is currently the director of the certificate program in regulatory leadership at the Centre for Public Management and Policy (Odell House) at the University of Ottawa. Before joining the University of Ottawa, he was Assistant Deputy Minister (Regulatory Affairs) at the Treasury Board Secretariat between 2009 and 2014. Prior to that, he spent 15...
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Biography Bruce Montador was the Executive Director representing Canada at the African Development Bank from September 2007 to September 2011. Previously , Bruce was the Vice-President for Multilateral Programs of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and also served as Director General, International Trade and Finance at Finance Canada. In that position,...
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Biography Mike Molloy served as Coordinator of the Middle East Peace Process at the Department of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003 and was previously Ambassador of Canada to Jordan. A founding member of the Multilateral Refugee Working Group (Middle East Peace Process) he has worked on the Palestinian refugee issue since the early 1990s and has been Co-Director of the ...
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Biography Jim Mitchell was a founding partner of the policy-consulting firm Sussex Circle (1994-2014). After several years as a university lecturer, he began his government career in 1978 in the Department of Foreign Affairs before moving to the Privy Council Office in 1983. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Board, Personal Policy Branch (1989-1991)...
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Biography Rob McRae was Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet at the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat at the Privy Council Office from 2011 to 2014. Prior to that, he served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to NATO (2007-2011), Director General of the International Security Bureau (2006-2007), Director General of the Policy Planning Bureau (2003-2006...
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