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Added: 2008-12-15 12:45
Modified: 2010-11-15 9:50
Refreshed: 2012-02-10 08:22
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Amina Az-Zubair
Amina Az-Zubair was appointed to the Board in March 2007. She is serving her first term, which will expire in 2011. Ms. Az-Zubair is Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria, on the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). She previously served as the National Coordinator of the Education for All (EFA) process in Nigeria. Some other positions she has held include: Co-founder and head of the Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All (CSACEFA); Founding/Executive Partner Afri-Projects Consortium; and Associate Consultant for Norman & Dawbarn, United Kingdom.
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Margaret Biggs
Margaret Biggs was appointed to the Board in May 2009. She is currently serving her first term which will expire in 2013. Ms. Biggs is President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Prior to her appointment at CIDA, she was Deputy Secretary to Cabinet, Plans and Consultation, in the Privy Council Office, a position she held since May 2006. Ms. Biggs has held a variety of senior positions in the federal government including: Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Priorities and Planning, Privy Council Office, Assistant Deputy Minister, Human Investment Programs and Associate Executive Head, Strategic Policy, Human Resources Development Canada.
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Prof. Claude-Yves Charron
Claude-Yves Charron was appointed to the Board in February 2008. He is currently serving his first term, which will expire in 2012. Dr. Charron is currently Vice-President, Université du Québec à Montréal, Secretary General of the Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications ORBICOM, and High level Senior Advisor in communication and development for the UN. He was former Canadian diplomat based in Beijing, and then a UN diplomat in Post-conflict social reconstruction based in Geneva.
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Jocelyn Coulon
Jocelyn Coulon was appointed to the Board in February 2007. He is currently serving his first term, which will expire in 2011. Mr Coulon has been a visiting researcher at CÉRIUM (Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal) since September 2005, and is the director of the centre's French-speaking network on peace operations research. He was Director of the Montréal campus of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre from February 1999 to December 2003.
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Ged Davis
Ged Davis was appointed to the Board in May 2002. He is currently serving his second term, which will expire in 2011. Mr. Davis is currently Co-President of the Global Energy Assessment Council at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located in Austria. Other positions he has held include: Managing Director, Centre for Strategic Insight at the World Economic Forum; the Global Energy Assessment Co-President; Vice-President, Global Business Environment and Head of Shell’s energy scenarios team; and Director of UNAIDS “HIV-Aids in Africa” scenario.
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Denis Desautels
Mr. Denis Desautels was appointed to the Board in January 2006. He is currently serving his second term which will expire in 2014. Mr. Desautels is presently Chairman of the Laurentian Bank of Canada, and Chairman of the Accounting Standards Oversight Council of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. He served as Auditor General of Canada from 1991 to 2001, before which he was Senior Associate with the accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Additionally, he is director of several publicly traded corporations.
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Dr. Ahmed Galal
Dr. Ahmed Galal was appointed to the Board in September 2005. He is currently serving his second term, which will expire in 2013. Dr. Galal is currently Managing Director of the Economic Research Forum. Other positions he has held include Executive Director and Director of Research of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), an independent think-tank dedicated to economic development in Egypt. He has worked within the World Bank in the following positions: Industrial Economist in Europe, Middle East and North Africa region; Senior, then Principal Economist at the research arm of the Bank; and Economic Advisor at the Private Sector Development Department.
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Dr. Frieda Granot
Frieda Granot was appointed to the Board in April 2008. She is currently serving her first term which will expire in 2012. Dr. Granot is Senior Associate Dean, Strategic Development and External Relations, and Advisory Council Chair Professor of Management Science at Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. She has held a wide range of administrative and academic appointments at the University of British Columbia (UBC), including Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Dr. Granot is winner of the 1998 Faculty of Commerce Academic Research Excellence Prize, and is author and co-author of over 50 publications in top peer-reviewed journals. In 2002, she received the Golden Jubilee Medal from the Government of Canada, and in 2006, she received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in the Education, Training, and Development category. In 2007, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.
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Dr. Andy Knight
Dr. Andy Knight was appointed to the IDRC Board of Governors in March 2007. He is serving his first term, which will expire in 2011. Effective July 1st, Dr. Knight became Chairman for the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Previously, he was Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Director of the Office of the Interdisciplinary Studies’ Peace and Post-Conflict Studies Certificate Program in the Faculty of Arts and Faculty Advisor, National Model United Nations (NMUN) and High School Model United Nations. He co-edited the international journal, Global Governance, from 2000 to 2005 and has served as Vice Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Professor Knight is the author and editor of several books, including Adapting the United Nations to a Postmodern Era: Lessons Learned and A Changing United Nations. He is co-editor of Building Sustainable Peace.
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Xue Lan
Dr Xue Lan was appointed to the Board in November 2006. He is currently serving a first term, which will expire in 2010. Dr Xue is currently a professor in the School of Public Policy and Management, Executive Vice-President of the Development Research Academy for the 21st Century, and Director of China Institute for Science and Technology Policy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Other positions he has held include Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and Fellow of IC2 Institute at the University of Texas.
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David Malone
David M. Malone was appointed as President of IDRC on July 1st, 2008, for a term of five years. Prior to that, Mr. Malone served as Canada`s High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal. Other positions he has held include: Assistant Deputy Minister in Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; President, International Peace Academy, New York; Director General of Policy, International Organizations and Global Issues Bureaux, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada; and Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations. Mr. Malone has published extensively on peace and security issues, in book form and in journals. He has taught at several universities, including Columbia and NYU. His most recent book is The Law and Practice of the United Nations (OUP, 2008). He is at work on a book addressing contemporary Indian foreign policy, for release in 2011 from OUP.
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Honourable Barbara McDougall
The Honourable Barbara McDougall was appointed as member of the Board in January 2007, and appointed as Chairman in December 2007. She is currently serving her first term, which will expire in 2012. Mrs McDougall is an advisor at Aird & Berlis, counselling clients on matters of international business development, corporate governance, and government relations. She is also a director of several Canadian corporations. She was a Member of Parliament for nine years and held several cabinet posts, including: Secretary of State for External Affairs, Minister of Employment and Immigration, Minister of State (Privatization and Regulatory Affairs), and Minister of State for Finance.
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Dr. Pratap Mehta
Dr Pratap Mehta was appointed to the Board in August 2007. He is currently serving his first term, which will expire in 2011. Dr Mehta is President of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, India. Other positions he has held include: Professor of Government, Harvard University; Professor of Philosophy and Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies, Harvard University. Dr.Mehta has published two books, as well as articles in reputed national and international journals.
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Dr. Faith Mitchell
Faith Mitchell was appointed to the Board in February 2005. She is currently serving her second term, which will expire in 2013. Dr Mitchell is presently Vice-President for Grant Makers Health, Washington, DC. Other positions she has held include: Senior Program Officer, National Academies, Institute of Medicine, Washington, USA; Deputy Director for Special Projects, Division of Behaviorial and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council; and Senior Coordinator for Population, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Department of State, Washington, DC.
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Dr. Elizabeth Parr-Johnston
Elizabeth Parr-Johnston was appointed to the Board in May 2009. She is currently serving her first term which will expire in 2013. Dr. Parr-Johnston is currently President of Parr Johnston Economic and Policy Consultants, Chairs, the Council of Canadian Academies, is Director of the Bank of Nova Scotia, Emera Ltd., the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, the Millennium Scholarship Foundation, and Future Generations Canada. She served as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick, and prior to that she was President and Vice-Chancellor of Mount Saint Vincent University. In addition to her distinguished career in a variety of academic appointments, Dr. Parr-Johnston has held various positions in the federal government and the private sector. She is also a member of the Order of Canada.
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Andrés Rozental
Andrés Rozental was appointed to the Board in March 2007. He is currently serving his first term, which will expire in 2011. Mr Rozental is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, (Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales) of which he was founding President from 2001. He has held various senior government and diplomatic posts, including Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom, Ambassador of Mexico to the Kingdom of Sweden, Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, as well as Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico. Ambassador Rozental was Ambassador-at-Large and Special Envoy for President Fox of Mexico and foreign policy adviser to current President Felipe Calderón during his campaign and his period as President-elect. He has a lifetime appointment as Eminent Ambassador of Mexico.
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Prof. Gordon Shirley
Professor Gordon Shirley was appointed to the Board in May 2009. He is currently serving his first term, which will expire in 2013. Presently, he is Principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in Kingston, Jamaica. Other positions he has held include: Carleton Alexander Professor of Management and Head of the Department of Management Studies at the University; Director of the Mona School of Business in 2001, and he also served concurrently as Executive Chairman of the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited, and was seconded as Jamaica`s Ambassador to the United States of America and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS). Professor Shirley has published widely in the areas of Manufacturing and Operations Management and Computer-Based Management Information Systems.
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Honourable Monte Solberg
The Honourable Monte Solberg was appointed to the Board in May 2009. He is currently serving his first term which will expire in 2013. He is presently Senior Advisor for Fleishman-Hillard based in Calgary, Alberta. Monte Solberg was previously the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, Canada, he also served as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Canada from 2006-2007. Other positions he held include: Opposition member of Parliament, during which time he served as Critic for Canadian Heritage, Human Resources and Development, National Revenue, Foreign Affairs and Finance, along with being Vice-Chairman for a variety of related committees. Monte Solberg is a recipient of the Alberta Social Services Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Voluntarism, the Queen`s Golden Jubilee Medal, and the Alberta Centennial Gold Medal.
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