Event Speakers
Fen Osler Hampson is a former CIGI distinguished fellow and director of the Global Security & Politics Program (2012-2019). Currently, he serves as chancellor’s professor and professor of international affairs at Carleton University and continues to provide leading research and insight to policy makers in the areas of Canadian foreign policy and global affairs. He is also the president of the World Refugee Council & Migration Council and was co-director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance and director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (2002-2014). A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada is also the recipient of an honorary degree from Trinity College, University of Toronto (2025).
Chuck Strahl was elected to the House of Commons in 1993 and was re-elected in six consecutive elections before retiring from Parliament on the eve of the 2011 federal campaign.
Stephen J. Toope is Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, President of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Former CIGI Senior Fellow
Tom Paddon is the Chairman of Baffinland Iron Mines, Ltd. The company recently developed Canada’s most northerly iron ore mine, the Mary River Project, located in the Qikiqtaaluk region of Nunavut.
Michael Turner is VP System Strategies with Wesley Clover International, an investment management firm with global interests in ICT companies focused on software services, telecommunications and information technologies.
From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Caron served as Canada’s Ambassador to the Peoples’ Republic of China, and from 2005 to 2008, he was Canada’s Ambassador to Japan before being named High Commissioner to the Republic of India.
Former Distinguished Fellow
