Biography

Irvin Studin is Assistant Professor and Program Director in the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto. His research, teaching and advisory interests include strategy, foreign policy, national security, constitutional law, federalism, governance, identity and sport policy, with recent writings focussing on the relationship between the constitutional structures of states and their capacity to exert strategic power in international affairs. The first ever recruit in the Government of Canada's Recruitment of Policy Leaders programme, Studin worked for a number of years in the Privy Council Office in Ottawa, as well as in the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. He co-authored Canada's 2004 National Security Policy, and principal-authored Australia's 2006 national counter-terrorism policy. Studin holds graduate degrees from the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford (where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship) and a Ph.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School (where he was a Trudeau Scholar and earned the Governor-General's Gold Medal). His undergraduate degree is from the Schulich School of Business, York University. Studin is the founding editor-in-chief and publisher of Global Brief magazine.