Chair of the Advisory Board
Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, PC, CC.
Members of the Advisory Board
Bessma Momani
Assistant Vice-President, Univ. of Waterloo. Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation. Board Member, International Development Research Centre.
Cindy Ewing
Assistant Professor of Contemporary International History in the Department of History and the International Relations Program at Trinity College.
David Dyment, PhD
Author of the best seller ‘Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship’, former Senior Research Associate at Carleton University, former CIC National Capital Branch president and current CIC Steward.
David Zimmer
Longest serving Minister of Indigenous Affairs in Ontario history. Former chair of Ontario Immigration and Refugee Board. Founder of Waterloo branch of Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
Doug Goold – CIC member, Toronto Branch
Former President, Canadian Institute of International Affairs and Canadian International Council. Author, editor, and Senior Fellow, Massey College.
Dr. Sanjay Ruparelia
Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. Jarislowsky Democracy Chair. Former assistant director of the South Asia Institute. Former lecturer at Columbia University. Formally served as a consultant to the United Nations.
Elham Farah
Former President, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Hamilton Branch: With husband Joe, owner of Farah’s Food Markets, Mini-Mart, and Hasty Markets.
Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon – CIC member, Toronto Branch
Professor Emerita, Western University. Leading authority on the Arctic. Currently Senior Fellow of Bill Graham Centre and Massey College.
Franklyn Griffiths
Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Toronto: Leading authority on the Arctic and acted as Special Adviser to Hon. Joe Clark when Mr. Clark was Secretary of State for External Affairs.
Gerald Wright – CIC member, National Capital Branch
Former Vice-President, Donner Canadian Foundation. Senior Adviser to several ministers. Former Chair, Governance Committee, CIC.
Hon. André Ouellet, PC
Former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Having been elected to the House of Commons when Lester Pearson was prime minister, André served in the cabinets of Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, and Jean Chrétien for whom he was foreign minister.
Hon. Elizabeth Dowdeswell
The 29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, former President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies, founding President and CEO of Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization and adjunct professor in punlic health at teh McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto.
Hon. Perrin Beatty, PC, OC
Former Secretary of State for External Affairs. Former Minister of National Defence. CEO, Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Hon. Sergio Marchi
Served as an elected Toronto municipal councillor, MP, Minister (Citizenship and Immigration, Environment, and International Trade), and Ambassador.
Irene Sage – CIC member, Waterloo Branch
Former Director, Foundation for International Security, London. Trustee, Cambodia Trust. Former President, Waterloo Branch, CIIA. Former Chair, Library Committee, CIIA.
James Appleyard – CIC member, National Office Branch
President, Freycinet Ventures; Chair, Stewards’ Circle, CIC; Chair, Gardiner Museum; Former director of briefing tours, Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
John Stackhouse
Senior Vice-President, Royal Bank of Canada. Former Editor-in-Chief, The Globe and Mail. Author and award-winning journalist. Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs.
Jon Allen
Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel and Spain. Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs.
Kim Nossal, FRSC
Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Queen’s University. Former President, Canadian Political Science Association and Editor, International Journal. Author of Canada Alone and many other works on international issues.
Lawrence Herman
Chair of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s National Advisory Committee. Leading author on international trade and Senior Fellow of C.D. Howe Institute.
Marcia McClung
President, Marcia McClung Consulting. Former President, Applause Communications. Leading activist on women’s issues.
Mary Janigan
Journalist and Award-Winning Author with a Doctorate in Canadian History.
Maureen O’Neil, OC
Has served as President of Canadian Health Research Centre, the International Development Research Centre, and the North-South Institute. Past Chair of the CIC.
Mohammad Al-Zaibak
Current Senator, Past Chair of the Canadian Arab Business Council. President and CEO of Canadian Development and Marketing Corporation.
Nurjehan Mawani, CM
Vice-Chairperson, International Development Research Centre; Former Chair and CEO, Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board. Former diplomatic representative of the Aga Khan Development Network to the Kyrgyz Republic and Afghanistan.
Patrick Graham
Award-winning author, war correspondent, and journalist.
Peter Braid – CIC member, Toronto Branch
Former MP, Kitchener-Waterloo. CEO, Insurance Brokers of Canada.
Robert Greenhill – CIC member, Montreal Branch
Executive Chair, Global Canada. Former Managing Director and Chief Business Officer, World Economic Forum. Former President of Canadian International Development Agency.
Rosemary McCarney
Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the Office of the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament. Former CEO, Plan Canada. Senior Fellow, Massey College.
Stephen Wallace – CIC member, Toronto Branch
Former Secretary to the Governor General. Senior Public Servant who was Vice-President of the Afghanistan Task Force and Associate Deputy Minister for the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Steven Wang
Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Adjunct Professor at University of Toronto Faculty of Law. David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission
Thomas Kierans, OC
Former President, McLeod Young Weir; Former CEO, C.D. Howe Institute. Former Chair, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Tim Sayle
Professor of history at the University of Toronto.
Tom Axworthy, OC – CIC member, Winnipeg Branch
Former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Massey College. Secretary-General, Interaction Council.
William Thorsell, O Ont – CIC member (complimentary as a CIC Steward)
Former Editor-in Chief, The Globe and Mail; Former CEO, Royal Ontario Museum.