Senior Fellows

• Former national Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of Canada
• Former Deputy Minister of Transport

• Assistant Deputy Minister (Policy) at the Department of National Defence (1991-2006)
• Ph.D. in international history from the London School of Economics and Political Science

• President and CEO of the Canadian Concil on Learning (CCL) since 2004
• Doctoral degree in Sociology form the Université de Paris and a medical degree from McMaster University
• Director General and CEO of the Concil of Ministers of Education, Canada (1996-2004)
• Director of AIDS Studies at the Montreal General Hospital (1989-1991)

• Former Canadian Ambassador to Egypt and India

Robert
Fowler

• Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations (1995-2000) and to Italy (2000-2006)
• Served as foreign policy advisor to three Prime Ministers. (Trudeau, Mulroney, Chrétien) and the Prime Minister’s Chrétien Personal Representative for Africa
• Deputy Minister of National Defence (1989-1995)

• Public Servant in Residence

• Canada’s Ambassador to Hungary and Slovenia
• Director General for Europe and Director General for Legal Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• Principal Counsel for the Canada-USA Free Trade Agreement

Ralph
Heintzman, Ph.D.

• Former Vice-president of the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada
• Served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Board Secretariat and vice-principal of the Canadian Center for Management Development
• Ph.D. from York University

• Canada’s Ambassador to Morocco (1991-1995)
• Served as Canada’s Permanent Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the UN World Food Program, the World Food Council and the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome

• Ambassador to the United States (2000-2005)
• Former Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy
• Currently Special Advisor on Border Management to the Premier of Ontario

• Former Chief Electoral Officer, Elections Canada
• Former President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (Washington, D.C)

• Canada's Ambassador to France (2003- 2007)
• Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet (Foreign and Defence Policy) (2000 to 2003)
• Served as Ambassador in Haiti, Zaire and Belgium and the Prime Minister's Personal Representative at the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

• Former Deputy Minister and Associate Deputy Minister to the Department of Foreign Affairs
• Canada's Ambassador to Mexico (2003-2007)

• Director General of Security and Intelligence to the Department of Foreign Affairs (2002-2006)
• Served as Canada’s Ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala and the Republic of El Salvador as well as Canada’s Ambassador for Mine Action
• Ph.D. from Queen’s University

• Former Assistant Secretary General for Peacebuilding for the UN
• Served as Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Operation in Burundi
• Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator at the UN Secretariat in New York (1999-2004)
• FormerVice-President for Africa and the Middle East Programs and Vice-President of CIDA's Multilateral Programmes Branch

• Director for Citizen Engagement at the Canadian Policy Research Network (2002-2007)
• Served as Director of Government Affairs and Policy at the Canadian Cooperatives Association and the Credit Union Central of Canada

• Co-Director, Jerusalem Old City Initiative (2003-2009)
• Former Coordinator, Middle East Process, Department of Foreign Affairs (2000-2003)
• Former Ambassador of Canada to Jordan (1996-2000)

• Canada's representative to the African Development Bank (2007-2011)
• Vice President, Multilateral Programs at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• General Director, International Trade and Finance, the Ministry of Finance of Canada (1997-2002)
• Head of the department of financial markets at the Bank of Canada (1994-1997)
• Ph.D. in mathematics

• National affairs columnist at The Globe and Mail
• Awarded numerous honorary doctorates from various universities

• Former Assistant Deputy Minister for the Environmental Protection Service at Environment Canada
• Advisor to the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture and expert consultant for the World Health Organization
• Ph.D (Guelph)