• Michael Ignatieff

  

  Michael Ignatieff is the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, the Leader of the Official Opposition, and the Member of Parliament for Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Before entering politics in 2005, Mr. Ignatieff served as Director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights at Harvard University and taught at leading universities aroun... Read More

Keynotes

• Dominic Barton

  

  Dominic Barton is the worldwide Managing Director of management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Prior to his current role, he was McKinsey’s Chairman of Asia from 2004-09, based in Shanghai, and he led McKinsey’s office in Korea from 2000-04. Mr. Barton is an active participant in, among other things, the... Read More

• Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for her advocacy work in showing the impact of global climate change on human rights. Based out of Nunavut, Ms. Watt-Cloutier is an Officer of the Order of Canada and the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Aboriginal Achievement Award,... Read More

• Sheryl WuDunn

  

  Sheryl WuDunn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who has reported from inside some of the toughest regimes in the world. As a banker, she has a deep knowledge of finance and the global economy and was the lead correspondent for The New York Times covering Japan’s financial crisis. Her long-time coverage... Read More

Co-Chairs

• Dominique Anglade

  

  Dominique Anglade has spent the majority of her career in operational leadership roles first as one of the youngest department managers at Procter & Gamble and ultimately as Director of External and Governmental Affairs at Nortel Networks. Since 2005, Dominique Anglade has been providing strategic management advice to m... Read More

• Mauril Bélanger

  

  Mauril Bélanger was born and raised in the town of Mattawa, in Ontario. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa. Mauril and his wife Catherine are proud grandparents. Prior to entering politics, Mauril held various positions in the public and private sectors. First elected to the House of Common... Read More

• Dr. Martha C. Piper

  

  Dr. Martha Piper is the former President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her contributions at UBC have played a major role in positioning the province to lead and benefit from the knowledge economy. She was also a central force in developing the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the C... Read More

Online moderator

• Randy Boissonnault

  

  Randy is President of Xennex Inc, a strategy consulting firm that advises small business owners in strategy, leadership and executive alignment. He is a graduate of the Campus Saint-Jean at the University of Alberta, and holds an M.A. (Oxon) from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Randy works with ow... Read More

Speakers

• Carolyn Acker

  

  Carolyn Acker is Founder of Pathways to Education Canada. As Executive Director of the Regent Park Community Health Centre, Ms. Acker developed the Pathways to Education Program, providing at-risk, disadvantaged high school students with the inspiration and ability to graduate. Having lowered the dropout rate in Regent ... Read More

• Elyse Allan

  

  Elyse Allan has served as President and CEO of GE Canada since October 2004.  Her career at GE began in 1984 and has spanned the U.S., Canada and several global industrial and consumer businesses.  Prior to this, she was President and CEO of the Toronto Board of Trade and, before that, a senior executive at Ontario Hy... Read More

• Keith Ambachtsheer

  

  Keith is Director of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM), and Adjunct Professor of Finance at The Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. A respected author, researcher, and commentator on pensions and investment topics, Keith recently received the James Vertin Award from the CFA... Read More

• Lloyd Axworthy

  

  Lloyd Axworthy currently serves as the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg, working to renew the campus and its downtown community with the view to making post-secondary education more accessible to inner-city, Aboriginal, new immigrant and refugee students. Dr. Axworthy’s political career s... Read More

• André Bazergui

  

  André Bazergui is the President and CEO of CRIAQ (Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec), a partner of Innovitech Inc. and Emeritus Professor at Montreal’s École Polytechnique. Mr. Bazergui obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield as an Athlone Fellow. He then joined École Polytechn... Read More

• Christiane Bergevin

  

  Christiane Bergevin is Executive Vice President of Strategic Partnerships in the Office of the President of Desjardins Group. She joined the Desjardins Group in August 2009 with a mandate to increase Desjardins’ market share in Canada and abroad. She currently spearheads key strategic partnerships, M&A and other d... Read More

• Marie Bernard-Meunier

  

  A University of Montreal and ENA graduate, Marie Bernard-Meunier is currently Visiting Scholar at the German Institute for International Security and Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik). Previously, she was Canadian Ambassador to Germany from 2000 to 2004, Canadian Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1996 to 2000, an... Read More

• Dr. Alan Bernstein

  

  Dr. Alan Bernstein is the inaugural Executive Director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise in New York, an alliance of independent organizations around the world dedicated to accelerating the development of an HIV vaccine. Previously, Dr. Bernstein served as the founding President of the Canadian Institutes of Health R... Read More

• Derek Burney

  

  Derek H. Burney (70) is Senior Strategic Advisor to Ogilvy Renault LLP.    He is Chairman of the Board of Canwest Global Communications Corp., Chairman of GardaWorld’s International Advisory Board and a Director of TransCanada Pipelines Limited.  Mr. Burney is a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Defence and F... Read More

• Yasmine Charara

  

  Yasmine gained her international cooperation field experience as an educational development consultant in the northernmost part of Cameroon, in Dakar as a guide for the Quebec Without Borders program, and as a youth correspondent at the third world forum on social economy. Her Lebanese father grew up in western Africa, her ... Read More

• Sujit Choudhry

  

  Sujit Choudhry is the Scholl Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where he is Associate Dean. He holds law degrees from Oxford, Toronto, and Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar, and served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Choudhry is one of Canada's leading c... Read More

• Satya Das

  

  Satya Brata Das is a leading opinion maker on the Canadian stage. An eminent policy advisor, Das built his first career as an award-winning journalist, an author, and a noted policy analyst. As Founder and Principal Cambridge Strategies Inc., Das advises at the most senior levels of federal, provincial and municipal gov... Read More

• David Dodge

  

  David Dodge was Governor of the Bank of Canada for a seven-year term from 2001-2008. As Governor, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank. During a distinguished career in the federal public service, Mr. Dodge held senior positions at Central Mortgage and Housing (now the Canada Mortgage and Housing Cor... Read More

• Yves-Thomas Dorval

  

  Yves-Thomas Dorval is president of the Conseil du patronat du Québec (CPQ), an organization which brings together several Quebec businesses and the majority of employers’ organizations in the province. Mr. Dorval became president of the CPQ in 2009 after working for the British American Tobacco Group in Montreal and i... Read More

• Bernard Dussault

  

  Bernard Dussault spent 37 years in various actuarial positions in both the private and the public sectors. As a government officer, he occupied from 1992 to 1998 the position of Chief Actuary for the Canada Pension Plan, the Old Age Security program and the five pension plans sponsored by the Canadian government for the... Read More

• Pierre Fortin

  

  Born in Lévis, Quebec, Pierre Fortin is Professor of Economics at the Université du Québec à Montreal. His broad research areas are economic growth, monetary and fiscal policies, social policy, and the economies of Canada and Quebec. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Research Council ... Read More

• Robert Fowler

  

  During his 38 year Public Service career, Bob Fowler was the Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Ministers Trudeau, Turner and Mulroney, Deputy Minister of National Defence, Canada’s longest serving Ambassador to the United Nations (where he represented Canada on the Security Council in 1999 and 2000 and issued 2 ground-b... Read More

• Kim Furlong

  

  Kim Furlong joined Amgen Canada as Director, Federal Government Affairs in 2008. In her previous role, she held the position of Vice President Federal Government Relations for the Retail Council of Canada. Before entering the private sector, she occupied the position of Director of Communications to the Foreign Affairs ... Read More

• Dan Gagnier

  

  Dan Gagnier is Chairman of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. From 2007 to 2009 he served as the Chief of Staff to Quebec Premier Jean Charest. Previously, he was Alcan Inc.’s Senior Vice-President, Corporate and External Affairs. Prior to joining Alcan in 1994, Mr. Gagnier held a number of po... Read More

• Tim Gartrell

  

  Tim Gartrell is the CEO of Auspoll, an Australian social and market research company and is a former National Secretary and National Campaign Director for the Australian Labor Party (from 2003-2008). Tim rose to national prominence as the Campaign Director who steered the Labor Party to victory in the historic 2007 f... Read More

• Ken Georgetti

  

  Ken Georgetti is a modern labour leader. He has walked countless picket lines in support of striking or locked-out workers, and is a controversial, but respected guest in corporate boardrooms and cabinet offices. In every situation, he strongly advocates for working people and their families. As President of the British... Read More

• Steven Guilbeault

  

  Steven Guilbeault is a founding member of the non-profit non-governmental organization, Équiterre. Interested in environmental issues and particularly climate change since the early 1990s, Mr. Guilbeault coordinated the Climate and Energy Campaign for Greenpeace for 10 years in Quebec and internationally. Mr. Guilbe... Read More

• Linda Hasenfratz

  

  Linda Hasenfratz was named CEO of Linamar Corporation on August 12, 2002, after serving as President from April 1999. The company has almost 12,000 employees in 37 manufacturing locations, five research and development centers and nine sales offices in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Germany, Hungary, the United King... Read More

• Ryan Hreljac

  

  At the age of 18, Ryan Hreljac is a compelling voice for those impacted by the global water crisis. He is the founder of the Ryan’s Well Foundation, committed to delivering access to safe water as an essential way to improve the lives of people in the developing world. In 1998, six-year-old Ryan was shocked to lear... Read More

• Tom Jenkins

  

  P. Thomas Jenkins is Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Open Text™ Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario, the largest independent software company in Canada. In addition to his Open Text responsibilities, Mr. Jenkins is the Chair of the federal centre of excellence Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN). He... Read More

• Senator Serge Joyal

  

  Senator Serge Joyal represents the Senatorial Division of Kennebec in Quebec since his nomination to the Senate in1997. His areas of interest and specialisation include legal and constitutional affairs, and culture. A lawyer by trade, he has also served as Art counsel with private sector collectors, and institutions. He ... Read More

• Jeremy Kinsman

  

  One of Canada’s most experienced diplomats, Jeremy Kinsman heads the project for the Community of Democracies which has recently produced the “Diplomat’s Handbook on Democracy Development Support.” With over his 40 years with the Canadian Foreign Service, he has been Canada’s Ambassador to Moscow, Ambassador i... Read More

• Claude Leblanc

  

  Senior Vice-President, Group Savings and Retirement Standard Life Claude Leblanc joined Standard Life in 2008 where he is responsible for the strategies, orientations and development of the company’s largest division. Standard Life is now ranked among the top savings and retirement plan providers to Canadian emplo... Read More

• Pierre Martin

  

  Pierre Martin is professor of political science at the Université de Montréal, where he also holds the Chair in American Political and Economic Studies. He also is a member of the Université de Montréal-McGill University Centre for International Peace and Security Studies. His research and teaching centers notably o... Read More

• Roger Martin

  

  Roger Martin has served as Dean of the Rotman School of Management since September 1998. He is also a professor of Strategic Management, holds the Premier’s Chair in Competitiveness and Productivity and is Director of the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the school. His research interests include Integrative... Read More

• Dr. Rick Miner

  

  Dr. Rick Miner was President of Seneca College from 2001-2009 and remains today as its President Emeritus. He has also been Vice-President of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and Director of the Canada/China Language and Cultural Program, Dean of Commerce, and MBA Director at Saint Mary’s University (SMU) in Nova... Read More

• Glenn O’Farrell

  

  Glenn O’Farrell is CEO & Principal at GPOcorp, a boutique holding company and strategic business consultancy services provider to media sector companies. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. O’Farrell was President and CEO of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB). Prior to joining the CAB, Glenn acquired extensive ope... Read More

• Dr. James Orbinski

  

  Dr. James Orbinski is a globally recognized humanitarian practitioner and advocate, as well as a leading scholar and scientist in global health. He believes in humanitarianism, in citizenship and in actively engaging and shaping the world in which we live, so that it is more humane, fair and just. After extensive field e... Read More

• Nicholas Parker

  

  Nicholas Parker co-founded the Cleantech Group, which, in 2002, introduced new technology and related business models that offer competitive returns for investors and customers while providing solutions to global challenges. Previously, Mr. Parker accumulated more than 15 years experience starting and investing venture fund... Read More

• Michael Phelps

  

  Michael Phelps is Chairman of Dornoch Capital Inc., a private investment company. He is Chairman of the Board of the GLOBE Foundation and Kodiak Exploration Limited. In 2003, the Canadian government appointed Mr. Phelps as Chairman of “the Wise Persons’ Committee,” a panel developed to review Canada’s system ... Read More

• André Provencher

  

  President, La Presse Télé, Les Éditions La Presse, Les Éditions Gesca With more than 30 years of experience, André Provencher is considered a leader in the Quebec media industry. During his career, he has held several executive positions, including Senior Vice-President of TVA, President of TVA International, CEO an... Read More

• Marie-France Raynault

  

  Marie-France Raynault began her career as a physician at the Montreal South Centre CLSC, where she practiced family medicine in conjunction with the emergency and obstetrics services at St. Luc’s Hospital in Montreal. She then joined the Department of Preventative Medicine at St. Luc’s Hospital and Switzerland’s I... Read More

• Dr. William E. Reichman

  

  Dr. William E. Reichman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Baycrest, one of the world’s premier academic health sciences centres focused on aging and brain function. Dr. Reichman, an internationally-known expert in geriatric mental health and dementia is also Professor of Psychiatry on the Faculty of Medicine... Read More

• Hon. Lucienne Robillard

  

  Lucienne Robillard began her career in politics in 1989 where she was elected to the Quebec National Assembly in the riding of Chambly as a member of the Liberal Party of Quebec. Ms. Robillard held several provincial Cabinet posts, including Minister of Cultural Affairs, Minister of Education and Minister of Health and Soci... Read More

• Bill Robson

  

  Bill Robson took office as President and CEO of the C.D Howe Institute in July 2006, after serving as the Institute’s Senior Vice President and Director of Research. He also chairs their Monetary Policy Council. Mr. Robson has written extensively on government budgets, pensions, health care financing, and on inflat... Read More

• George Roter

  

  George Roter has been recognized as one of Canada’s leaders in the non-profit sector. He strongly believes that Canadians are passionate about driving social change both within our country’s borders and abroad. He has dedicated the past 8 years of his life to building organizations that engage a broad cross-section of C... Read More

• Sheridan Scott

  

  Sheridan Scott assists clients in competition matters within Canada and with competition-related public policy initiatives. She also advises clients on communications law matters. Sheridan was Canada’s Commissioner of Competition from 2004 to 2009. As the head of the Competition Bureau, she administered and enforced t... Read More

• Janice Stein

  

  Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She is an acknowledged expert on conflict resolution and international relations, with an emphasis on the Middle East. ... Read More

• Patrick Tobin

  

  Patrick Tobin has been Director, Business Development Americas with Rio Tinto Alcan since May 2009. Before this, he was Director, Corporate and Government relations with Alcan Inc. (now Rio Tinto Alcan). He has held the post of Chief of Staff in several departments within the Canadian government, namely the Department of... Read More

• Sherri Torjman

  

  Sherri Torjman is Vice-President of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy. She is the author of the book “Shared Space: The Communities Agenda” and of many Caledon reports including Reclaiming Our Humanity, The Social Dimension of Sustainable Development, Strategies for a Caring Society, Survival of-the-Fittest Emp... Read More

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