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| Lloyd Axworthy | [MENU] |
Lloyd Axworthy is President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. Formerly Director and CEO of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia and Canada’s Foreign Minister from 1995 to 2000, Lloyd Axworthy’s political career spanned 27 years, during six of which he served in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly and twenty-one in the Federal Parliament. He held several Cabinet positions, notably Minister of Employment and Immigration, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, Minister of Transport, Minister of Human Resources Development, Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In the Foreign Affairs portfolio, Dr. Axworthy became internationally known for his advancement of the human security concept, in particular, the Ottawa Treaty - a landmark global treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. For his leadership on landmines, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. For his efforts in establishing the International Criminal Court and the Protocol on child soldiers, he received the North-South Institute’s Peace Award.
Since leaving public life in the fall of 2000, Dr. Axworthy has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and honours. The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation presented him with the Senator Patrick J. Leahy Award in recognition of his leadership in the global effort to outlaw landmines and the use of children as soldiers and to bring war criminals to justice. Princeton University awarded him the Madison Medal for his record of outstanding public service and he received the CARE International Humanitarian Award. He was elected Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been named to Order of Manitoba and to the Order of Canada.
He has received honourary doctorates from Queen’s University, Lakehead University, University of Victoria, University of Denver, Niagara University, The University of Winnipeg, Dalhousie University, University of Manitoba and McMaster.
Dr. Axworthy is a Board member of the MacArthur Foundation, Human Rights Watch - where he chairs the Advisory Board for Americas Watch, Lester B. Pearson College, University of the Arctic, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Churchill Gateway Development Corporation as well as on the Advisory Board of the Ethical Globalization Initiative.
In February 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed Lloyd Axworthy as his special envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace agreement between the East African countries. He currently sits on the High Level Commission for the Empowerment of the Poor – UN Development Program. In January 2006, the Organization of American States appointed Dr. Axworthy to head the OAS Electoral Observation Mission that monitored the 2006 general elections in Peru.
He graduated in 1961 with a B.A. from United College (now The University of Winnipeg), obtained his M.A. in Political Science from Princeton University in 1963, subsequently earning a PhD from Princeton in 1972.
Lloyd Axworthy remains involved in international matters and lectures widely in Canada, the U.S. and abroad. His book Navigating a New World - Canada’s Global Future, Knopf Canada, was published in the Fall of 2003.
| James Bartleman | [MENU] |
The Honourable James K. Bartleman concluded his term as the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario on September 5, 2007. During his time in office, he pursued three priorities: eliminating the stigma of mental illness, supporting anti-racism initiatives and encouraging Aboriginal young people.
As Lieutenant Governor, Mr. Bartleman implemented four aboriginal literacy programs including The Club Amick Reading Program for 5,000 native children and 36 summer reading camps for 2,500 children in Ontario's north. The programs are continuing for five years.
Preceding his appointment as Ontario's Vice-Regal Representative, Mr. Bartleman served 35 years in Canada's Foreign Service as Ambassador to the Cuba, Israel, NATO and the European Union and, High Commissioner to South Africa and Australia, and was Foreign and Defence Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister.
He holds ten honorary degrees and is the recipient of a number of honours and awards, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award 1999, the Phi Delta Kappa Educator of the Year Award 2004 and the Arthur Kroeger College Award in Ethics in Public Affairs 2007.
Mr. Bartleman is the author of four best-selling books and donates all book royalties to the causes he promoted as Lieutenant Governor. He is currently Chancellor of The Ontario College of Art and Design, a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel on the future of Medical Education in Canada, a visiting fellow to Laurentian University's Aboriginal Studies Program and honorary patron to a number of organizations and causes.
He was born in Orillia, Ontario and grew up in Port Carling. Mr. Bartleman is a member of the Mnjikaning First Nation.
| Simon Brault | [MENU] |
Originally from Montreal, Simon Brault has been Director General of the National Theatre School of Canada since 1997. He was the School’s Administrative Director from 1992 to 1997, during which time he was the driving force behind the project to restore the historic Monument-National in Montreal.
Convinced that the cultural milieu needed to increase its connections with other players in society, Mr. Brault was closely associated with the Forum d'action des milieux culturels de la Métropole from 1994 to 1999. He also initiated Journées de la culture, a massive undertaking first held in 1997 to popularize the arts and culture across Quebec. During the Sommet de Montréal in June 2002, he led a delegation of 20 leaders of the cultural community. He was chief organizer and chair of the steering committee of RV07 - Montreal, Cultural Metropolis (2007). Mr. Brault is also a founding member of Culture Montréal and has been its elected Chair since it began in 2002. In 2008, Mr. Brault received the Canadian Conference of the Arts’ Keith Kelly Award for Cultural Leadership. That year, he was also appointed a Fellow of the Certified General Accountants' Association. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
A long-time advocate for cultural communities and a self-described “cultural development activist,” Mr. Brault began a five-year term as Vice-Chair of the Canada Council on March 31, 2004. In January 2009, it was announced that his term was renewed for another 5 years effective March 31, 2009.
| Alan Broadbent | [MENU] |
Alan Broadbent is Chairman and CEO of the Avana Capital Corporation, and Chairman of The Maytree Foundation. In support of its investment activities, Avana initiates and funds civic engagement projects to strengthen the public discourse on civil society, including: the Jane Jacobs Prize, which celebrates “unsung heroes” in the Toronto Region; the Institute for Municipal Finance and Governance at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto; and Ideas That Matter, an organization to convene discourse on progressive ideas concerning the public good. He is also Chairman of several related organizations, including the Caledon Institute of Social Policy (co-founded by Maytree in 1992), Tamarack – An Institute for Community Engagement (co-founded in 2001), and Diaspora Dialogues, which supports the creation and presentation of new writing that reflects the diversity of Toronto.
Alan Broadbent is also Chairman of the Tides Canada Foundation; advisor to the Literary Review of Canada; Co-Chair of Happy Planet Foods; Member of the Governors’ Council of the Toronto Public Library Foundation; Senior Fellow of Massey College, and Member of the Order of Canada and recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. He is the author of the recently published book “Urban Nation”.
| Magaly Brodeur | [MENU] |
Magaly Brodeur earned a Bachelor's degree in economics with a minor in international relations, as well as a Master's in history from the Université de Sherbrooke. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the analysis and management of public policy at the École nationale d’administration publique (Université du Québec à Montréal). Her focus is on the management of issues formerly referred to as "public morality." Over the last few years, she has been examining the role of government in the management and regulation of potentially addictive substances - that is, products or activities that may lead to dependency. After studying medication, drugs and alcohol, she turned her attentions to gaming and gambling. At its most recent conference, in August 2009, the Institute of Public Administration of Canada awarded her first place in its “Thought Leadership Awards.” The prize celebrates novel ideas for dealing with the challenges of administration and public policy. Magaly Brodeur is the coordinator of "Organized gaming and gambling for seniors: social accountability, governance and prevention," a project directed by Professor Yves Boisvert of the École nationale d’administration publique. She is also a student researcher at the Santé et Éducation, Situation de Handicap research centre at the Université de Montpellier 1 in France, and a lecturer at the Université de Sherbrooke École de politique appliquée. Magaly also holds scholarships from the Trudeau Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
| Jeb Brugmann | [MENU] |
Jeb Brugmann is a leading practitioner and thinker on strategy and the process of innovation. For 25 years he has been devising solutions to help local communities access the benefits of globalization, and to help global organizations engage in local communities and markets. His work focuses particularly on the critical contribution of innovation at the micro-level of the locality, business model, or consumer cluster to achieve macro-level strategy objectives.
As the founder and chief executive of major international organizations and programs, as a social entrepreneur and for-profit private sector entrepreneur, and as a corporate and urban strategy consultant, he has worked on the ground in scores of cities and rural regions in 28 countries.
Jeb is the author of Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World (2009), and a contributor to four books on urban sustainability. He has published in Harvard Business Review (winner of the 2007 McKinsey Award for best article) and other peer-reviewed academic journals. He established and was a regular contributor to an extensive series of case studies on urban management best practices. He is a longstanding editorial board member of the journal Local Environment.
Jeb is a faculty member of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, and has lectured at other universities in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Brazil, and Australia. His speaking career has taken him to 19 countries.
| François Crépeau | [MENU] |
François Crépeau is the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Professor of International Public Law at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. The focus of his current research includes migration control mechanisms, the rights of foreigners, the conceptualization of security as it applies to migrants, and the Rule of Law in the face of globalization.
François Crépeau has given many conferences, published numerous articles, and written or directed five books: Les migrations internationales contemporaines – Une dynamique complexe au cœur de la globalisation (2009), Penser l'international, Perspectives et contributions des sciences sociales (2007), Forced Migration and Global Processes - A View from Forced Migration Studies (2006), Mondialisation des échanges et fonctions de l'État (1997) and Droit d'asile: De l'hospitalité aux contrôles migratoires (1995). He heads the “Mondialisation et droit international” collection at Éditions Bruylant (Brussels), is a member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and a fellow of the Institute for Research in Public Policies (IRPP). He also sits on the Barreau du Quebec’s Committee on Human Rights and Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
From 2001 to 2008, he was a professor at the Université de Montréal, holder of the Canada Research Chair in International Migration Law, and founding scientific director of the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM). From 1990 to 2001, he was a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He also served as vice-president of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation (now Equitas) (1992-2004) and director of the Revue québécoise de droit international (1996-2004. He participated in observer missions in the occupied Palestinian territories (2002) and in El Salvador (1991).
François Crépeau holds diplomas from McGill University (BCL and LLB), Bordeaux University (DEUG and Licence in law, Master’s in private law), Paris II University (DEA in sociological jurisprudence) and Paris I University (Ph.D. in law).
| Peter Dinsdale | [MENU] |
Peter Dinsdale is an Anishnawbe and member of the Curve Lake First Nation in Ontario . In 1996 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts - Political Science and Native Studies and received a Master of Arts - Interdisciplinary Humanities in 1997 from Laurentian University.
Mr. Dinsdale has worked with Aboriginal people and organizations in the urban environment at the local, regional and national level to improve the quality of life for Aboriginal people.
He is currently Executive Director of the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC). The NAFC is a network of 117 Aboriginal Friendship Centres and 7 Provincial/Territorial Associations across Canada delivering a variety of cultural and social programs to urban Aboriginal communities.
Peter resides in Ottawa with his wife Tammy and their two sons.
| Nathan Edelson | [MENU] |
Nathan Edelson is a Senior Partner with 42nd Street Consulting – a company that focuses on planning for inclusive communities.
He worked with the City of Vancouver Planning Department for 25 years. From 1995 to 2008 he was the Senior City Planner for the historic neighbourhoods of the Downtown Eastside, Chinatown, Gastown and Strathcona. In addition to supervising a strong multi-disciplinary staff team, he was the founding chair of the Downtown Eastside Integrated Services Team, co-manager of the area-wide Housing Plan, member of the Inclusive Commitments for the 2010 Olympic Bid and chair of the Vancouver Agreement’s Economic Revitalization Plan Task Team. Prior to this, Nathan was the planner responsible for the Joyce Rapid Transit Station Area Plan, the Downtown South high density residential community plan and worked on the Central Area Plan as well as city-wide initiatives on secondary suites, liquor licensing and other contentious issues. He was also the founding executive director of Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, a community based social service organization and vice president of the Forum for Planning Action – a group of students, professional and community activists calling for more meaningful public participation in planning.
Over the last year Nathan and his partner – Normajean McLaren – were the first Bousfield Distinguished Visiting Scholars at the University of Toronto. He is an Adjunct Professor at UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning and a member of the UBC CIDA funded New Public Consortia for Metropolitan Governance Project, which is studying inter-governmental relations in Canada and Brazil. He has worked with many non profit organizations and is currently on the steering committee of Living in Community, a coalition of business and community organizations working to improve safety for sex workers and the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.
| Susan Fainstein | [MENU] |
Susan S. Fainstein joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2006 as a professor of urban planning. She teaches courses on planning implementation, redevelopment policy, and planning theory. Her teaching and research have focused on comparative urban public policy, planning theory, urban political economy, public participation, and urban redevelopment. She has just completed a book entitled The Just City, to be published by Cornell University Press. Among her published works are The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York; Restructuring the City; and Urban Political Movements. She has co-edited volumes on urban tourism (The Tourist City and Cities and Visitors), planning theory (Readings in Planning Theory), urban theory (Readings in Urban Theory), and gender (Gender and Planning). She received the Distinguished Educator Award of the Association of American Schools of Planning, which recognizes lifetime career achievement and has been a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Center for Scholars at Bellagio.
Professor Fainstein has been a professor of planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and of planning at Rutgers University. She has held the Wibaut Chair for Distinguished International Visitors at the University of Amsterdam and visiting appointments at the University of the Witwatersrand, SA, the University of London, Cleveland State University, and New York University. She led or participated in studies of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program, the rebuilding of Ground Zero in Downtown Manhattan, and the relationship between competitiveness, cohesion, and governance in cities in the United Kingdom. She has served on numerous editorial boards and was an editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
She received her A.B. from Harvard University in government, her M.A. from Boston University in African Studies, and her Ph.D. in political science from MIT.
| Leila Farah | [MENU] |
Leila Marie Farah is a French architect and a lecturer at McGill University. She holds a professional degree in Architecture from l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, an MArch from McGill University and is currently a PhD candidate at McGill's School of Architecture. Her research focuses on the correlation between food and architecture, and has been recognized with several excellence scholarships including a McGill Engineering Doctoral Award, a Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Collection Research Grant and a Jeanne Sauvé Fellowship.
In the past, Ms. Farah has worked with leading European architectural firms, like Architecture Studio in Paris. Since 2005, she has been collaborating with a McGill-based research unit in seeking ways to increase the sustainability of cities through community participation, urban horticulture and design. In 2009 she co-edited as a guest a special issue of Open House International titled "Designing Edible Landscapes". Recognition of her work includes the Borusan Prize (XXII International Union of Architects, 2005--individual project), and the National Urban Design Award (Royal Architectural Institute of Canada/ Canadian Institute of Planners/ Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, 2008--as one of the project leaders for the pioneering design "Making the Edible Campus"). Other projects of hers have been exhibited in France, Italy, Turkey and Canada.
| Lilith Finkler | [MENU] |
Lilith Finkler is a former Trudeau Scholar (2005) and a long time psychiatric survivor activist. She has published widely in areas pertaining to mental health law, disability and human rights and more recently, about land use law and affordable housing. A recipient of numerous awards, Lilith is committed to both scholarly inquiry and community-based activism. Along with other psychiatric survivors, Lilith was co-founder of the first Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day, an event now celebrated internationally.
| Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin | [MENU] |
Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin holds a Ph.D. in urban planning (UCLA) and a doctorat d’État ès Lettres in geography (University of Panthéon-Sorbonne). She is affiliated with the CNRS (national scientific research Council) where she is director of research. She is professor at the Institute of Political Studies (Paris) and at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne.
Her research deals with the “urban question” in terms of a spatial and material construction associated with social processes and cultural practices which are themselves inextricably linked to political dynamics. Her interest in the comparative approach stems not only from a university career that spans both France (Europe) and the United States but also an awareness of the comparative analysis as a methodology for generating knowledge in the social sciences at a time when the influence of cross-national socio-economic processed linked to the globalization of the economy is becoming paramount. As a geographer she is also interested in the politics of scale and since 2000, her publications deal with the leadership and political responsibilities of cities in addressing global issues within a sustainability perspective. Among her recent publications, Les États-Unis entre local et mondial (Paris, Presses de Sciences po, 2000) [The United States between local and global), La Théorie du “New Urbanism” et le développement durable (Paris, Ministère Equipement, 2006) [The theory of New Urbanism in favor of smart and green growth]. She edited Les Espaces Publics à l’heure globale (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2001) [Publics Spaces in the Global Age], co-edited La ville insoutenable (Paris, Belin, 2006) [The unsustainable city]. She is currently up-dating and revising the dictionary she edited Dictionnaire des mondialisations (ed.) (Colin, 2006) [Dictionary of globalizations] for translations in Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish and English.
She is an IFUW (International Federation of University Women) representative at Unesco contributing to the preparation of UN Conferences, Habitat II (Istanbul 1996), Habitat II+5 (New York 2001) and Johannesburg (2002). She is currently the president of the Unesco-NGO commission working on « Education for Sustainable Development».
| Raymonde Hachey | [MENU] |
Since 2002, Raymonde Hachey has been a volunteer with L’Abri en ville (“urban shelter”), an organization that fosters community integration of people with mental illnesses. From 2003 to 2009, she was also a member of the organization’s board and president of its executive committee.
As a professor of occupational therapy and mental health at the Université de Montréal for 30 years, her research and teaching focused on community-based rehabilitation, groups and mental health, and occupational therapy. She also taught at McGill and Queen’s, and her research often took her abroad. For example, she took part in the Queen’s University International Centre for the Advancement of Community Based Rehabilitation (ICACBR) pilot project to develop an occupational therapy curriculum for Bosnian students in Canada and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She taught occupational therapy at the University of Sarajevo and Moscow Social State University, and served as a clinical supervisor in Sarajevo, Tomislavgrad and Cazin. She also taught a number of courses at the Brazilian Association of Occupational Therapists in Sao Paolo, and in Sarajevo, Gorazde and Mostar. After participating in the development of an educational program on group therapy for victims of anti-personnel mines, she helped implement the project in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in Bagna Luka and Prjador, Serbian Republic.
As a research associate in the psychosocial division at the Douglas Hospital research centre in Verdun, Ms. Hachey helped evaluate the Wisconsin Quality of Life Index psychometric qualities for the hospital’s clients. She has supervised master’s and doctoral students whose work included the perception of roles, the influence of quality of life on daily activities, and the recovery or restoration of power.
Raymonde Hachey has published many teaching and academic articles in national and international journals. She serves as a consultant with community organizations and hospitals in Quebec, and has held a number of positions in professional and community associations.
| Christopher Hume | [MENU] |
Christopher Hume is the architecture critic and urban issues columnist of the Toronto Star. He started writing for the paper in 1981. He won a National Newspaper Award for his columns in 2008, on his fifth nomination. In 2009, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada gave him the President’s Award in Architectural Journalism. Hume has also received a certificate of appreciation from the Ontario Association of Architects. His book, William James’ Toronto Views, won a Toronto Heritage Award in 2000. In 2004, he received a Landscape Ontario award. His feature article about the Toronto waterfront in Spacing won a National Magazine Award this year.
Hume appears frequently on radio and television as a commentator on city issues. Hume was named Toronto’s best newspaper columnist by NOW magazine in 2005 and Eye magazine in 2006. Born in England in 1951, he came to Canada as a child. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Glendon College and lives in downtown Toronto.
| Mark Kingwell | [MENU] |
Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. Among his fifteen award-winning books of political and cultural theory are the national bestsellers Dreams of Millennium (1996), Better Living (1998), The World We Want (2000), and Concrete Reveries (2008), which addressed the “political phenomenology of cities” and was included in the Globe and Mail’s list of best non-fiction for 2008. Mark Kingwell has lectured to academic and popular audiences around the world, and has published essays and reviews in more than fifty scholarly and mainstream publications. His latest books are a philosophical biography of the pianist Glenn Gould and a co-edited collection of essays called Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space (both 2009). He is currently at work on a book about democracy.
| Jean-Paul L'Allier | [MENU] |
Jean-Paul L'Allier is a partner at the Langlois Kronström Desjardins law firm, which has offices in Quebec City, Montreal and Levis. He is also a guest professor at the Université Laval, where he teaches and conducts research at the École supérieure d’aménagement du territoire et du développement régional, and the departments of political science, geography, and information and communications. He was a member of the Quebec National Assembly from 1970 to 1976, holding a variety of ministerial roles: Leisure, Youth and Sports; Communications; and Public Service and Cultural Affairs. Mr. L’Allier served as Quebec’s delegate-general to Belgium from 1981 to 1984, and honorary Belgian consul in Quebec City from 1984 to 1988. Elected mayor of Quebec City in 1989, he held office until 2005.
Mr. L'Allier has received a great many honorary titles, including Doctor honoris causa in law, from the Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV (October 2002); Commander of the Ordre de la Pléiade (Ordre de la Francophonie et du dialogue des cultures – March 2003); Officer of the National Order of Quebec (June 2004); Commander of the Ordre de Léopold (Belgium – September 2005); Commander of the Légion d'honneur à Paris (France – October 2005); and Doctor honoris causa of the Université du Québec (May 2006).
| David Ley | [MENU] |
A professor at the University of British Columbia since 1972, David Ley currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Geography. From 1996 to 2003, he was the UBC Director of the interdisciplinary Vancouver Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM). RIIM's mandate is to study the economic and social needs, and achievements of Canada's immigrant population. His own research has focussed on immigrant poverty, housing and labour market experiences, and migrant voluntary organizations.
Professor Ley was awarded his BA from Oxford University and his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1972. His thesis was an ethnographic study in an African-American district in Philadelphia. A preoccupation with inner city people and place has continued to this day. Other research interests include gentrification and urban restructuring, the politics and culture of consumption, social geographies of immigration and social movements. A good part of his work has also been to interpret the 'post-industrial' Canadian city.
A member of the Royal Society of Canada since 1998, Professor Ley has received visiting fellowships at a number of foreign universities, including the Christensen Fellowship at Oxford, and has been an invited speaker at 76 universities and colleges in 17 countries. Dr. Ley's current book, Millionaire Migrants: Trans-Pacific Life Lines, is to be published by Blackwell-Wiley early in 2010.
| Joseph MacInnis | [MENU] |
Dr. Joseph MacInnis is a physician-scientist, marine conservationist and writer who has been exploring the undersea world for 40 years. In the 1960’s, he was medical director of the American Man-in-Sea program and worked on the U. S. Navy’s Sea Lab project. In the 1970’s and 80’s, he led the teams that made the first scientific dives under the North Pole and discovered the world’s northernmost known shipwreck “HMS Breadalbane” under the ice of the Northwest Passage. Dr. MacInnis was an adviser to the Titanic discovery team and has made two dives to the world’s most famous shipwreck. He has written eight books and numerous articles for magazines including Scientific American, National Geographic and Wired. For 7 years, Dr. MacInnis was Chair of the TD Financial Group’s Friends of the Environment Foundation. His work has earned him a number of distinctions including four honorary doctorates and the Order of Canada.
| Gillian Mason | [MENU] |
Gillian Mason joined United Way Toronto in October 2007 and now holds the position of Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Community Partnerships. Gillian is responsible for advancing United Way’s community impact work by providing leadership on research, public policy as well as the development of community initiatives and partnerships. She also works closely with Board Committees such as the Community Impact Committee and the Research, Policy and Priorities Committee.
Gillian previously held the position of Executive Director and CEO of the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM), an international organization she helped found. At CAPAM she was responsible for the leadership and strategic management of its international membership association of senior public officials, both appointed and elected. Gillian gained a wealth of experience working in diverse, multicultural environments while traveling to many of the 53 Commonwealth nations, where Gillian worked closely with local teams in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the south Pacific as well as the United Kingdom and Malta in Europe in capacity building and knowledge exchange.
Prior to CAPAM, Gillian was the Vice President of the Canadian Urban Institute which she also helped found. In the late 1980s, Gillian was Project Manager, Municipal Economic Development Program and Director, Policy and Research Department with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM). At FCM, she led projects including the establishment of the FCM International Office, which works with municipal governments worldwide to improve the quality of life and the sustainability of local communities.
Gillian holds a number of volunteer positions in the community that have included member and Vice Chair of the Toronto Public Library Foundation, member and Chair of the Toronto Public Library Board, and various positions with the Diaspora Dialogues, the Community and Race Relations Committee – City of Scarborough, the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Wilderness Canoe Association. She is the recipient of a number of leadership and community service awards.
Gillian holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Western Ontario, where she graduated with distinction. She also holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies (Honours) in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Waterloo.
| Hazel McCallion | [MENU] |
Hazel McCallion was first elected Mayor of Mississauga in November, 1978, and is the longest serving Mayor in the City's history. She was acclaimed in 1980, re-elected in 1982 and 1985, acclaimed again in 1988 and re-elected in 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2006.
Mayor McCallion was born in Port Daniel on the Gaspe Coast of Quebec and educated in Quebec City and Montreal. She then began her career in Montreal with Canadian Kellogg, an engineering and contracting firm, and was transferred to Toronto in 1942 to help set up the local office. Mayor McCallion was involved in many projects including the Lakeview Generating Station, the British American refinery in Clarkson, the first synthetic rubber plant in Sarnia and the pilot project for the tar sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Mayor McCallion remained with the company for 19 years. In 1967 she decided to leave the corporate world and devote her career to politics.
Mayor McCallion was named as a new member of the Streetsville Planning Board in 1964 and served as Chair of the Board in 1966 and again in 1968. Later that same year, she became Deputy Reeve of Streetsville. Mayor McCallion was appointed Reeve, and then elected as Mayor of Streetsville in 1970, serving until December, 1973. When the Region of Peel was established in 1974, Mayor McCallion was elected to the Mississauga and Peel Regional Councils. She served two terms as a Councillor prior to her mayoral campaign in 1978. By the time she was elected Mayor, she had sat on virtually every committee at the Region of Peel and the City of Mississauga. She has also served on the executive of many federal and provincial committees and associations, including President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) from 1978 to 1979. She is now in her eleventh term as Mayor.
In 1991, Mayor McCallion became the first Mayor of a major municipality to submit the annual operating budget to residents for their input and scrutiny. She is also among the first mayors of major municipalities to be openly committed to a pay-as-you-go philosophy. The City has not had to borrow money since 1978 and is currently debt-free. Mayor McCallion also established the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Mayors' Committee in 1992. In addition, the Mayor represented the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) on the Electricity Transition Committee for the Ministry of Electricity, Science and Technology. In February 2002, Mayor McCallion was appointed Chair of the Central Ontario Smart Growth Panel by the Hon. Chris Hodgson, Minister of Municipal Affairs.
Mayor McCallion has played a leading role for women in politics. She is the first woman to hold such significant positions as President of the Streetsville and District Chamber of Commerce; President of the Anglican Young Peoples' Association of Canada; Mayor of Streetsville and Mayor of Mississauga.
Among her most recent awards are for 2009 are : the Community Service Award for her support of the Life Sciences sector in Mississauga by The Biotechnology Initiative (February 2009). Mayor McCallion was honoured by the Canadian Urban Institute with the 2009 Urban Leadership Award in the City Prosperity Category (June). In August, Mayor McCallion was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel by the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the Mayor’s contribution to society and an ambassador of good will and fellowship around the world.
| Patricia McCarney | [MENU] |
Professor Patricia McCarney received her Ph.D. in International Development and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning from M.I.T. in 1987.
Most recently, she served as Associate Vice President, International Research and Development at the University of Toronto. She is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and is Director of the Global Cities Programme at the University’s Munk Centre for International Studies. She is also Director of a new initiative – the Global City Indicators Facility – part of a Program funded by the World Bank to build a body of internationally comparative data on cities.
Her teaching and research is concentrated on urban governance, urban poverty, politics and planning in cities of Asia, Africa and Latin America, cities and the environment, local government and global cities in comparative perspective.
Before joining the University of Toronto, between 1983 and 1994, Professor McCarney worked as a professional staff member in a number of international agencies, including the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, the World Bank in Washington, and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) in Nairobi.
In addition to four books – Cities and Governance: Asia, Africa and Latin America in Comparative Perspective (ed.); The Changing Nature of Local Government in the Developing World (ed.); Governance on the Ground: Innovations and Discontinuities in Cities of the Developing World (co-edited with Richard Stren); and, Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations: The Role of Higher Education (co-edited with Glen Jones and Michael Skolnick), Patricia McCarney is the author of numerous articles and papers on these subjects. Her newest book nearing completion on urban poverty is tentatively titled, Cities at Risk: Implications for Governance.
| Eric Miller | [MENU] |
Eric Miller is the inaugural Director of the University of Toronto Cities Centre. He has B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto since 1983, where he is currently Professor and former Director of the University of Toronto Urban Transportation Research and Advancement Centre. He also served as Acting Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering during 1998-99, 2003 and 2007. Prof. Miller is Chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research and Chair of the U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Travel Behavior and Values. He is past-Chair of the TRB Sub-Committee on Integrated Transportation – Land Use Modeling and Member Emeritus of the TRB Transportation Demand Forecasting Committee. He served on the TRB Task Force on Moving Activity-Based Approaches to Practice and the US National Academy of Sciences Committee for Determination of the State of the Practice in Metropolitan Area Travel Forecasting. He recently chaired travel demand modelling peer review panels for magnetic levitation demonstration projects in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Las Vegas, has been a member of technical advisory groups for the TRANSIMS implementations in Portland, Oregon, Buffalo, N.Y. and Burlington, Vermont, and has served on numerous travel demand peer review assignments, including Baltimore, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, Denver, Vancouver and Waterloo, Ontario. His research interests include: integrated land use transportation modelling; analysis of the relationship between urban form and travel behaviour; modelling transportation system energy use and emissions; and microsimulation modelling. He is the developer of GTAModel, a “best practice” regional travel demand modeling system used by the City of Toronto, the Region of Durham and the Cities of Mississauga and Burlington to forecast travel demand in the Greater Toronto Area; TASHA, a state-of-the-art activity-based microsimulation model of GTA travel; and ILUTE, an integrated land use – travel demand models system for the GTA.. He is co-author of the textbook Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision-Oriented Approach, the second edition of which was published in 2001.
| Keith Neuman | [MENU] |
Keith Neuman is Group Vice-President – Public Affairs of the Environics Research Group Ltd. He is an established research professional, with more than 20 years of senior level experience with leading public opinion research organizations in Canada. He has designed and directed a wide range of research projects for public, private and non-profit sector clients in such areas as energy and environment, natural resources, health care, municipal services, justice, transportation and social policy. At Environics he heads up the company’s Public Affairs research practice, which includes Environics’ leading syndicated studies such as Focus Canada, the Canadian Environmental Barometer, and the North of 60˚and Remote Community Monitor. Since the late 1980s, he has conducted public opinion studies for more than 40 departments and agencies of the federal government, including the Departments of National Defence and Foreign Affairs, and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Keith Neuman holds a Ph.D. in Social Ecology from the University of California. He is a member of the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA), through which he holds the credential of Certified Marketing Research Professional (CMRP). He is a frequent media commentator on social trends and public opinion.
| Monica Patten | [MENU] |
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Foundations of Canada, Monica Patten has presided over a period of unprecedented growth in Canada’s community foundation movement. When she took the helm of the fledging organization for Canada’s community foundations in 1993, it had 28 members with assets of $500 million. Today, those numbers have exploded to include more than 160 community foundations in cities, towns and rural areas all across the country, and assets close to $3 billion.
Monica Patten firmly believes that ‘growing the philanthropic pie’ benefits everyone, here at home and internationally. She has personally assisted in the development of community philanthropy around the world, including in Brazil, Mexico, Central and Eastern Europe, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Russia. She is Chair of WINGS (Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support), a senior fellow to Synergos, former CIVICUS Board member and a member of various taskforces on philanthropy in the US, including the Council on Foundations’ International Committee.
Monica Patten serves as an advisor to many Canadian non-profit and philanthropic programs. She played an active role in the Voluntary Sector Initiative, the joint effort to strengthen the sector’s relationship with the federal government and enhance its capacity. An active volunteer, she currently serves on the Board of Equitas and chairs the Financial Management and Development Committee of the Anglican Church of Canada. In May 2005, Monica Patten received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lawson Foundation in recognition of her “extraordinary accomplishments and leadership.” She was also honoured by the Public Policy Forum in April 2002 for her contribution to public policy and Canada’s voluntary sector.
| Isabelle Porter | [MENU] |
A Le Devoir (Québec) contributor since 2004, Isabelle Porter has been a journalist for nearly ten years. She is also the urban affairs reporter on the Radio-Canada morning radio show, and has contributed to a variety of different publications, including L’État du Québec and L’Actualité magazine. Isabelle Porter has a master's in science and a graduate degree in international journalism.
| Lluís Recoder i Miralles | [MENU] |
Lluís Recoder i Miralles studied law at a number of institutions in Europe. Early in life he developed an interest in politics and served as General Secretary and President of the youth branch of the political party Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC), which he then joined as a full-fledged member in 1976.
He started his career at the Institut Català del Sòl (Catalan public body for land development), holding a number of different positions. From 1986 to 1999 he was member of the Spanish Congress, representing the Grup Parlamentari Català, serving as Deputy Speaker during his last term. He has also served on the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly and the Western European Union Parliamentary Assembly.
From 1999 to 2007 Lluís Recoder was a member of the Catalan Parliament, representing Convergència i Unió (which includes the CDC). In 1999 he was also elected mayor of the city of Sant Cugat del Vallès. His mandate was renewed in 2003 and 2007, and he currently enjoys an absolute majority on City Council.
Lluís Recoder is a member of Al Gore’s Climate Project, an international association with a mission to increase public awareness of the climate crisis, and he participates in Covenant Mayors, the European movement for local sustainable energy.
He holds several key positions related to urban policy: Executive Member and President of Local Policy for his party (CDC), Vice-President of the Barcelona Area Government (Diputació), Vice-President of the Catalan Association of Municipalities, and Member of the Strategic Metropolitan Plan of Barcelona.
During his term as mayor, the city of Sant Cugat del Vallès has won several accolades for excellence in government practice, including Finalist at the European Public Sector Award and Promoter City for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Sant Cugat des Vallès was also rated Number 1 at the Spanish Local Transparency government ratings in 2009.
His book La llibertat com a reposta (freedom as an answer) was published in 2009. Lluís Recoder lives in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona) with his wife and three daughters.
| Ilmar Reepalu | [MENU] |
Ilmar Reepalu left his native Estonia to study civil engineering and architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. After completing a supplementary degree in architecture at the Royal University College of Fine Arts (Stockholm), he worked as an architect in Gothenburg, Borås and Malmö, specializing in sustainable city planning, and working both as an independent consultant and in the municipal departments of Planning and Architecture. In 1985 Mr. Reepalu’s career took a more political direction, as he became City Commission in Malmö and then, from 1985-1995, Deputy Mayor. He has been Chairman of the Executive Board and Lord Mayor of Malmö since 1994. During his tenure as mayor, Mr. Reepalu has supported a number of changes and projects – including the creation of a university, the construction of one of the world’s first sustainable neighbourhoods, and legal changes to make immigration more efficient – that have helped Malmö rise to become a thriving city and a model of sustainable development. In addition to his mayoral responsibilities, Mr. Reepalu has also served as the president of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, a member of the World Executive Committee, International Union of Local Authorities (IULA), and a member of the Executive Bureau and World Council, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). He is currently vice-president of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, a member of the Policy Committee, Council for European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), and a member of the Committee of the Regions and its Commissions for Sustainable Development (DEVE) and Territorial Cohesion (COTER).
| John Richards | [MENU] |
Born in the United Kingdom, John Richards grew up in Saskatchewan, and served as an elected member of the Saskatchewan government in the 1970s. Trained as an economist, he is a member of the faculty in the Graduate Public Policy Program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
He has written extensively on social policy in Canada, primarily via the C.D. Howe Institute (most publications available online at www.cdhowe.org), where he holds the Roger Phillips chair in social policy. His recent publications include monographs on poverty and Aboriginal education policy.
He co-edits Inroads, a Canadian public policy journal. In addition, he has undertaken teaching and research in Bangladesh over the last two decades. He heads the Centre for Policy Research, which is linked to the International University of Business Agriculture and Technology in Dhaka.
| Patricia Rimok | [MENU] |
Patricia Rimok has been the president of the Conseil des relations interculturelles du Québec since October 2003. The Council is a permanent, independent government consultancy and research agency whose main function is to advise the Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities on issues related to immigration, integration and ethnocultural diversity policies. The Council’s most recent achievements under Ms. Rimok’s guidance are a brief entitled A fair representation and treatment of ethno-cultural diversity in media and advertising, a brief on the recognition and management of ethnocultural diversity, a brief on laicity and religious diversity: Quebec’s approach, a position paper on planning levels of immigration and integration from 2008-2010, and a position paper entitled Toward an Integrated Systems Approach to Fight Against Racism and Other Forms of Discrimination in Quebec. She was appointed to the Council after briefly serving as executive director of the Ministry of Citizen Relations and Immigration in May 2003. From 1998 to 2001 she worked as a political advisor to the office of the Mayor of Montreal, in charge of promoting municipal reform and cultural communities. Ms. Rimok has always been very active in intercultural relation, serving on the boards of many cultural community organizations in Montreal.
She has also held executive positions in several organizations, including that of executive director of the Maimonides Geriatric Hospital Foundation in Montreal. She began her career in 1983 working in the private sector as a communications and marketing consultant. Patricia Rimok earned degrees in communications and political science from McGill University.
| Nic Rivers | [MENU] |
Nic Rivers is pursuing a Ph.D. in Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He holds a Maste r’s degree in Environmental Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. His research and professional work focuses on the economic evaluation of environmental policies, and has been published in economics and energy journals as well as in other popular publications. Additionally, he is co-author of a recent book on climate change policy, Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge. Nic has worked for all levels of government, industry, and non-governmental organizations on issues related to energy efficiency and climate change program evaluation, policy analysis and development, and economic modelling. He has received major national awards for his research from the Trudeau Foundation and the National Science and Engineering Research Council.
| John B. Robinson | [MENU] |
John B. Robinson is a professor with the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, and the Department of Geography, at the University of British Columbia. He is currently directing research programs looking at the intersection of climate change mitigation, adaptation and sustainability; the use of visualization, modeling and citizen engagement to explore sustainable futures; sustainable buildings and urban design; creating private/public/NGO and research sector partnerships for sustainability; and generally the intersection of sustainability, social and technological change, behaviour change, and community engagement processes.
His major current project is trying to get the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) built and operating. Dr. Robinson is a member of the BC Climate Action Team, the BC Hydro External Advisory Committee on Electricity Conservation and Efficiency, and the Vancouver Climate Leadership Council, on the Board of the Sustainable Cities Foundation and the Pembina Institute, a member of the Steering Group of HELIO International, and on the Editorial Boards of the journals Integrated Assessment, Ecology and Society, Building Research and Information, and the Journal of Industrial Ecology. He has been a Lead Author in the last three reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
| Witold Rybczynski | [MENU] |
Witold Rybczynski, of Polish parentage, was born in Edinburgh, raised in London, and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal, where he also taught; he is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. His architectural experience has included designing houses as a registered architect, as well as researching low-cost housing for which he received a 1991 Progressive Architecture award. In 1993, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and he has received honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Western Ontario. In 2007, he received the Vincent Scully Prize, the Seaside Prize, and the Institute Collaborative Honors from the AIA. He serves on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.
Described as "one of our most original, accessible, and stimulating writers on architecture" by Library Journal, Rybczynski is currently architecture critic for the on-line magazine Slate. He has written fourteen books on subjects as varied as the evolution of comfort, a history of the weekend, American urbanism, the development of a new community, and a search for the origins of the screwdriver. Home has been translated into ten languages, and was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Prize, while A Clearing in the Distance, a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, received the J. Anthony Lukas Prize, a Christopher Award, a Philadelphia Athenæum literary award, and was shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction.
His essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journnal, The New York Times, and the New York Review of Books, and he has written for The New Yorker and The Atlantic. He is the author of Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town, and My Two Polish Grandfathers.
Witold Rybczynski lives with his wife Shirley Hallam in Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia.
| David Stonehouse | [MENU] |
| Emőke Szathmáry | [MENU] |
Born in Hungary, but a Canadian citizen since 1956, Emőke Szathmáry is a biological anthropologist. Her academic administrative appointments include serving 12 years as the President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manitoba (1996-2008). Earlier she was Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at McMaster University (1994-96), Dean of Social Science at the University of Western Ontario (1989-1994), and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University (1985 - 1988). She had joined McMaster University in 1975 as a probationary Assistant Professor after a term appointment at Trent University. Currently she is President Emeritus and Professor in the Department of Anthropology as well as the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics.
Dr. Szathmáry has served on many public and private committees and boards at provincial, national, and international levels. These include within Manitoba the St. Boniface General Hospital Board (1997-2008), the Manitoba Museum Foundation Board (1997-2006) and the Manitoba Electoral Boundaries Commission (1998). She was Co-Chair of the Manitoba Diabetes Strategy Steering Committee (1997-99), Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee on Diabetes to the Minister of Health, (2000-03) and Chair of the Council of Presidents of Universities in Manitoba (2000-02). Nationally Dr. Szathmáry has been a member of the Executive Committee and Board of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (2000-02; 07-08), the Canadian Genetics Diseases Network (2003-07), and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on Science and Technology (2005-07). She is a member of Central European University School of Business International Advisory Board (2005-). Currently Dr. Szathmáry is a director of the J. W. Dafoe Foundation (1996-), the Canadian Credit Management Foundation (2004-), the University of the Arctic (2007-), the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation (2008- ), and the Advanced Foods and Materials Network (2008-). She is also a director of Power Corporation of Canada, Power Financial Corporation and Great-West Lifeco.
Dr. Szathmáry’s research addresses the genetics of the indigenous peoples of North America, focusing on the causes of type-2 diabetes, the genetic relationships within and between North American and Asian peoples, and the microevolution of subarctic and arctic populations. Her field research involved Ottawa, Ojibwa and Dogrib peoples in Ontario and the Northwest Territories. Her publications include over 80 articles and reviews, and she has co-edited three books. Dr. Szathmáry was editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology (1987-91), and of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1995-2001). She is a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America (1989) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1995). She held the Paul T. Baker Lectureship at The Pennsylvania State University in 1992, and was named a life member of the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology in 1997. In 1998 the American Anthropological Association named her Distinguished Lecturer, which is the highest recognition given by the anthropological discipline for a lifetime of exemplary scholarship.
Dr. Szathmáry has received five honourary doctorates in recognition of her research and contribution to higher education: Doctor of Laws, University of Toronto (2001), York University (2008) and McMaster University (2008); Doctor of Science, University of Western Ontario (2003); Doctor of Sacred Letters, University of St. Michael's College (2004). She was a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2002-04), and in 2007 received the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award of the Human Biology Association.
Dr. Szathmáry was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2003. In 2004, she was named to the Top 100: Canada’s Most Powerful Women, by the Women s Executive Network and the Richard Ivey School of Business, and in 2005, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2007 she received the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Excellence in Public Administration in Manitoba.
| Stephen Wilson | [MENU] |
Stephen Wilson is the co-founder and Executive Director of Graffiti Art Programming. Established in 1998, Graffiti Art Programming is a community youth arts centre, located in Winnipeg's historic Point Douglas Neighbourhood, that uses art as a tool for community development, social change and the individual growth of it's participants. The original mandate of the agency was to work with those youth who were engaging in illegal graffiti vandalism and attempt to re-direct their energies to more socially acceptable activities. Over the last 10 years the agency has grown and evolved so that now, it works with and supports all different types of artistic pursuits and young artists. The free after-school art classes attract more than 700 children and youth each year representing over 10,000 individual participations. Schools from across the Province regularly tour of the gallery's exhibition space attracting over 3,000 students and teachers each year. The Gallery's exhibits also attract 10,000 additional visitors from outside of the school system each year.
| Robert Young | [MENU] |
Robert Young is Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Multilevel Governance. He took his B.A. and M.A. at McGill, and his D.Phil. at Oxford. Bob Young has written many articles on politics in the Maritimes and on free trade and industrial policy. He has also studied issues around secession, both comparatively and in the case of Canada. He is the author of The Secession of Quebec and the Future of Canada (1995) and The Struggle for Quebec (1999). Currently he is interested in public policy at the municipal level, and is leading a large research project on this topic, funded mainly by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is co-editor with Christian Leuprecht of Canada - The State of the Federation 2004: Municipal-Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada (2006) and is co-editor with Andrew Sancton of Foundations of Governance: Municipal Government in Canada’s Provinces (2009). Professor Young is Co-director of the Political Economy Research Group at Western, and is associated with several think tanks. He is a past President of the Canadian Political Science Association.
| Lilia Yumagulova | [MENU] |
Lilia Yumagulova was born and raised in the Soviet Union, in a low-income area of a large urban centre prone to recurring floods. It was witnessing these regular ‘disasters’ affect her community year after year that influenced her choice of profession. After finishing her Masters in Engineering with a specialization in Emergency Management in Russia, Lilia realized that in order to address vulnerability reduction effectively, the level of understanding and implementation must extend beyond the borders of the nation state – just as many disasters transcend international boundaries. Intrigued by the oxymoronic term ‘disaster management’ Lilia pursued her education related to this field in Britain (University College London; King’s College London), Canada (MUNK Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto; York University) and Sweden (Department of Architecture and Build Environment, Lund University). After having worked in the media, government agencies and non-government organizations, Lilia returned to academia where she is focusing on the research-to-practice continuum in planning for disaster resilient communities. Lilia is currently a Trudeau Scholar at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, Canada
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