Senior Fellows

• Former Mayor of Ottawa (2000-2006)
• Member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly.

Kenneth
Calder

• 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

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)

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

Robin
Higham

• 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

• Former Federal Deputy Minister at Revenue Canada
• President of the Public Service Commission of Canada and of the Royal Canadian Mint (1994-1999)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)