About the Authors
Former CIGI Senior Fellow
Former CIGI Distinguished Fellow
Former CIGI Senior Fellow
Bessma Momani is a CIGI senior fellow with a Ph.D. in political science, focusing on international political economy. She is currently on sabbatical from the University of Waterloo at the NATO Defense College where she is a fellow examining research and development of emerging and disruptive technologies in dual‑use applications.
Colin Bradford is an international economist, who has been a government official in the US Senate, the US Treasury and USAID in the Carter and Clinton administrations, an international civil servant at the World Bank, the OECD and the OAS; and a professor of economics at Yale and American University, as well as an expert at the Brookings Institution, CIGI and the Global Solutions Initiative in Berlin.
Former CIGI Senior Fellow
Eric Helleiner is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.
Former Distinguished Fellow
Former CIGI China Research Chair and Senior Fellow
Former CIGI Chair in Global Environmental Governance
Former CIGI Distinguished Fellow
Former CIGI Distinguished Fellow
Jorge Braga de Macedo is a CIGI distinguished fellow and a former minister of finance in Portugal. He is currently president of the Tropical Research Institute.
Former CIGI Senior Fellow
Former Senior Publications Advisor
With a distinguished career in Canadian diplomacy — including posts as ambassador to Germany, permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) and adviser to various prime ministers, Paul Heinbecker is one of Canada’s most experienced commentators on foreign policy and international governance. Paul is also the director of the Centre for Global Relations at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Pierre L. Siklos is a CIGI senior fellow who specializes in macroeconomics, with an emphasis on the study of inflation, central banks and financial markets.
Rohinton P. Medhora is a CIGI distinguished fellow, professor of practice at McGill University, and an expert in international economic relations, innovation policy, development economics and governance.
Thomas A. Bernes is a CIGI distinguished fellow. After an illustrious career in the Canadian public service and at leading international economic institutions, Tom was CIGI’s executive director from 2009 to 2012.
