Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service and the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the ASEAN Studies Center at the American University, Washington, D.C. From 2001 to 2007, he was Professor of International Affairs and Deputy Director and Head of Research of the Institute of Defence and Strategic St…

The Honourable John Baird was appointed Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in May 2011.  Since his election to the Parliament of Canada in 2006 he has served as President of the Treasury Board, Minister of the Environment, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons. Prior to entering federal politics, Mr. Ba…

Dominic Barton is the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company. From 2004 to 2009 he was based in Shanghai as Chairman of McKinsey in Asia. Prior to that he led the firm’s office in Korea. He is a widely published author and active participant in many international fora. Mr. Barton is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, Chairman of the International Advisory Commit…

Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He founded Eurasia Group in 1998 with just $25,000. Today, the company has offices in New York, Washington and London, as well as a network of experts and resources around the world. Eurasia Group provides financial, corporate, and government clients with information and …

Derek Burney, O.C., is Senior Strategic Advisor at Norton Rose Canada LLP. Mr. Burney entered the Canadian Foreign Service in 1963. He served for seven years in Japan and for three years as Ambassador to Korea. After returning to Ottawa, initially as Assistant Deputy Minister for United States Affairs and then Associate Undersecretary, he helped launch and conclude the Canada-…

Mark Carney is Governor of the Bank of Canada and Chairman of its Board of Directors. In addition to his duties at the Bank, he serves as Chairman of the Financial Stability Board and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements. Mr. Carney is also a member of the Group of Thirty, and of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum. Prior to joining t…

Joseph Caron joined Heenan Blaikie LLP in 2010 as special advisor in the Asia-Pacific group. Mr. Caron began his international relations career in 1972 as a member of Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service. From 2001 to 2005, he served as Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, with concurrent accreditation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) a…

Felix P. Chee is Chief Representative of the China Investment Corporation (CIC) Representative Office in Toronto. He was previously the Special Advisor to the President and Chief Information Officer of the CIC, the sovereign wealth fund of the People’s Republic of China. Prior to this, Mr. Chee was President and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Toronto Asset Mana…

Victor Chu is Chairman of First Eastern Investment Group, a leading Hong Kong-based direct investment firm and a pioneer of private equity investments in China. He is also Chairman of First Eastern Investment Bank Limited in Dubai and Evolution Securities China Limited in London. Mr. Chu is a main board member of Zurich Insurance Group. He has served as Director and Council Membe…

Tom Clark is chief political correspondent of Global National News and hosts Global Television’s weekly political program The West Block with Tom Clark.  Mr. Clark has covered every Canadian federal election campaign since 1974, as well as numerous provincial campaigns. He has interviewed nearly every Prime Minister since Pierre Trudeau, and in a previous role, he s…

Jacynthe Côté is Chief Executive of Rio Tinto Alcan, the global leader in the aluminium industry, and executive committee member of Rio Tinto, a leading international mining group.  In her role, Ms. Côté is responsible for Rio Tinto Alcan’s global bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium production and power generation.  Prior to February 2009, Ms. Côté served …

André Desmarais, O.C., O.Q., is Deputy Chairman, President, and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation, and Co-Chairman of Power Financial. Prior to joining Power Corporation in 1983, he was Special Assistant to the Minister of Justice of Canada and an institutional investment counsellor at Richardson Greenshields Securities Ltd. He is a director of many Power …

Dr. Wendy Dobson is a Professor at the Rotman School of Management and Co-director of the Rotman Institute for International Business.  She is a former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in Government of Canada, a former President of the C.D. Howe Institute, and has served as non-executive director of a number of Canadian companies.  She is also a Director of the Canadian Di…

N. Murray Edwards is Chairman of the Board of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL), one of the world`s largest independent crude oil and natural gas producers. He is also Director and co-owner of the Calgary Flames Hockey Club and Owner and President of Edco Financial Holdings Ltd. In addition to CNRL, he is a leading investor, managing director, chairman, or vice chairman of se…

Brian Ferguson is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cenovus Energy, a Canadian oil company with operations in Alberta’s oil sands as well as natural gas and crude oil production in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Mr. Ferguson joined a predecessor company in 1984, becoming a member of the management team in 1994. He has business experience in a variety of areas including finan…

The Honourable James M. Flaherty is Canada’s Minister of Finance and Minister Responsible for the Greater Toronto Area. He is a Governor of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. As Minister of Finance he is an ex-officio member of all Cabinet Committees. Before entering federal politics he spent  more than 10 years in Ontario’s Legislative Assembly as th…

Anthony Germain is an award-winning Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) correspondent and host of the CBC’s St. John’s Morning Show. Prior to hosting the Morning Show, Mr. Germain was based in Bejing where he earned several awards, including a Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club and Amnesty International prize for human rights reporting as well as an Edwar…

Jamshyd N. Godrej is the Chairman and Managing Director of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited, an Indian conglomerate with interests in real estate, industrial engineering, consumer appliances and furniture, among other businesses. He is the Trustee and President Emeritus of World Wide Fund for Nature – India, the Chair of Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundat…

Howard Green is the anchor of “Headline with Howard Green”, the flagship interview program on Business News Network. An awardwinning broadcast journalist, he was one of the original on-air hosts at BNN, a network he helped launch in 1999. His first book, “Banking on America”, the story behind TD Bank’s push into the United States, will be published by HarperCollins in …

The Honorable Tim Groser is New Zealand’s Minister of Trade, Minister for Climate Change Issues, and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs. Prior to his career in politics, he served as a policy adviser in a number of key Departments including Treasury, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Group. He has served New Zealand with distinctio…

Donald Guloien is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Manulife. Mr. Guloien started in Corporate Planning and during his 31-year career at Manulife has held a variety of leadership roles in insurance and investments operations, global acquisitions and business development.  Before assuming his current role, he was Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Inv…

Anil K. Gupta is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and globalization. He is the Michael Dingman Chair in Global Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. He received
a doctorate from Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, and a Bac…

Arvind Gupta is the Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research organization, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining Mitacs, he helped found the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and …

Linda Hasenfratz is Chief Executive Officer of Linamar Corporation, a leading supplier to the global vehicle and mobile industrial equipment markets. She joined Linamar in 1990 and held a variety of positions within the firm, ranging from machine operator and Operations Manager to President and Chief Operating Officer, before being appointed CEO in 2002. She is a Director of t…

Dr. Wenran Jiang is a Special Advisor to the Alberta Department of Energy on Asian market diversification and a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Before taking a leave from his tenure at the University of Alberta, Dr. Jiang was the Founding Director and Inaugural Mactaggart Research Chair of the China Institute. He is the Director of Canada-China Ener…

Amanda Lang is an award-winning business journalist and Senior Business Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) flagship nightly news program, The National.  She also co-hosts the Lang & O’Leary Exchange, a daily business program. Ms. Lang began her career in journalism with The Globe and Mail, and subsequently joined the …

Emmanuelle Latraverse is a journalist for Radio-Canada. She has been the host of “Les Coulisses du pouvoir” (Behind the Scenes of Power) since September 2011 and is the Ottawa Bureau Chief and Parliamentary Correspondent.  Emmanuelle joined Radio-Canada in May 2005. She has a degree in Contemporary German Studies and Economics from McGill University and a Master of Arts …

Kelly J. Lendsay is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Human Resource Council (AHRC), an organization dedicated to advancing the full labour market participation of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and Indigenous Peoples around the world. Prior to joining the AHRC, Mr. Lendsay was the first Director of the Aboriginal Business Education program at the Col…

The Honourable Kevin G. Lynch, P.C., O.C., began his career in 1976 as an economist with the Bank of Canada. During his career in public service he served as Deputy Minister of Industry and Deputy Minister of Finance. He then served as Executive Director, the International Monetary Fund. In 2006, he was appointed the 20th Clerk of the Privy Council, Secretary to the Cabinet and Head …

Kishore Mahbubani has had the good fortune of enjoying a career in government and, at the same time, writing extensively on public issues. During 33 years with the Singapore Foreign Service, he worked in Cambodia, Malaysia, Washington and New York City where
he served two postings as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations and as President of the United Nations Security C…

Andrew Michelmore is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Minmetals Resources Limited (MMR), a global resources company that mines, explores and develops base metal projects in Australia and around the world. Mr. Michelmore joined MMG after his tenure as CEO of Zinifex Limited and then OZ Minerals Limited. Mr. Michelmore has more than 28 years’ experience in th…

Marc Parent is President and Chief Executive Officer of CAE, a global leader in modelling, simulation and training for civil aviation and defence. Mr. Parent joined CAE in 2005 as Group President and became President and Chief Executive in 2009. Mr. Parent, who has more than 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry, began his career at Bombardier Aerospace where he held se…

Dave Porter is Chief Executive Officer of the British Columbia First Nations Energy and Mining Council. He is a member of the Kaska Nation, whose traditional territory covers a large part of northeastern British Columbia and southeastern Yukon. Mr. Porter was elected to the Yukon Legislature in 1982 and upon re-election in 1985 served as Deputy Premier. After leaving the Legisl…

The Honourable Jim Prentice joined the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) as Senior Executive Vice-President and Vice Chairman in January 2011. In this role, he is responsible for expanding CIBC’s relationships with corporate clients across Canada and abroad, and providing leadership on strategic initiatives to enhance CIBC’s position in the market. Mr. Prenti…

Indira V. Samarasekera, O.C., is the 12th President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Alberta, one of Canada’s most respected research-intensive universities. Dr. Samarasekera is internationally recognized as one of Canada’s leading metallurgical engineers for her ground-breaking work on process engineering of materials, especially steel processing. She h…

Suneet Singh Tuli is the Toronto-based Chief Executive Officer of DataWind Ltd., a leading developer of wireless web-access products and services. Founded in 2000, the company has offices in Montreal, London, UK, and the northern Indian state of Punjab. Mr. Singh Tuli came to Canada from India with his family when he was 11, and later earned a degree in Civil Engineering from the U…

Janice Gross Stein is Harrowston Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She is an expert on conflict resolution and international relations, with an emphasis on the Middle East.  A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she has served on …

Annette Verschuren is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of NRStor Incorporated.  In her previous career as President of The Home Depot Canada and Asia, she led the company’s entry into China and oversaw the growth of its Canadian operations from 19 to 180 stores.  Ms. Verschuren began her career with the Cape Breton Development Corporation. She then worked with Canada Devel…

Curt Vossen is President of Richardson International Ltd. He was formerly President of Richardson’s Grain Division and held various regional and marketing management positions during 20 years at Cargill Limited. He is currently Chairman, Grain Insurance & Guarantee Company; Chairman, Prince Rupert Grain Co; Member and Senior Principal of the Western Grain Elev…

Bruce Wallace was appointed Editor of Policy Options magazine, the flagship publication of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, in August 2012.  A native of Montreal, he was Tokyo Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to 2008, after which he became Foreign Editor. Over a long career in journalism he has reported from across Canada and around the world, covering …

Erin Weir is currently campaigning for the leadership of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. He has worked as an economist with the United Steelworkers union, the International Trade Union Confederation’s world headquarters in Brussels, and the Canadian Labour Congress. His career began in the federal public service with the Treasury Board Secretariat, the Departmen…

As Senior Columnist for Maclean’s magazine, Paul Wells is one of Canada’s foremost political commentators.  He has written for Time magazine, the National Post, La Presse and the Literary Review of Canada. Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Mr. Wells studied at the University of Western Ontario and the Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris. He serves on the Adviso…

Mark Wiseman assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) in July 2012. He joined the CPPIB as Senior Vice-President, Private Investments in 2005. He was later named Executive Vice-President, Investments. Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Mr. Wiseman holds a BA from Queen’s University and a law degree and …

Yuen Pau Woo is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He has served on the Standing Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, and as an advisor to the Asian Development Bank, the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Centre, and the Canadian Ditchley Foundation. He is also a member of the Global Council of the Asia Society, a memb…