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john w. mcarthur
John W. McArthur is an economist and optimist focused on interrelated issues of economic growth, technological advance, sustainability, poverty reduction, and global collaboration. He is a Visiting Fellow with the Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow with the United Nations Foundation, and Senior Fellow with the Hong Kong-based Fung Global Institute. He was previously the CEO of Millennium Promise and prior to that managed the UN Millennium Project, the advisory body to then-Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He was a faculty member at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and Policy Director at the University’s Earth Institute. Earlier he was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Development, where he co-authored the Global Competitiveness Report.
In 2007-2008 John co-chaired the International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice, which led to the launch of a new global network of Masters in Development Practice programs. He currently chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Poverty and Sustainable Development. The Forum has recognized him as a Young Global Leader. John completed a D.Phil. and M.Phil. in Economics at Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar; a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) at the University of British Columbia.
In 2007-2008 John co-chaired the International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice, which led to the launch of a new global network of Masters in Development Practice programs. He currently chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Poverty and Sustainable Development. The Forum has recognized him as a Young Global Leader. John completed a D.Phil. and M.Phil. in Economics at Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar; a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) at the University of British Columbia.
Elias D. León
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Elias D. León is the Project Officer of the Education and Model Assemblies at the United Nations Association in Canada. He previously served as Advisor to the Permanent Delegation of Saint Lucia to UNESCO where he contributed to policy making in the Social Science and Culture commissions of the General Conference of UNESCO and the World Heritage Convention. Subsequently, he played a leading role in drafting a proposed legal strategy to protect human rights and natural resources in Cameroon while working with the Human Rights, Economic Development and Globalization Clinic at Sciences Po Law School. Elias recently worked with the NAFTA Division of the Embassy of Mexico in the United States on international trade, free trade agreements, and bilateral investment treaties for the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions.
Elias graduated with an Honours Degree in International Studies and Modern Languages from the University of Ottawa and a Certificate in Social Sciences and Humanities with a specialization in International Law from Sciences Po Paris. Elias endeavours to make a significant contribution to the developing world through pursuing a career in foreign affairs and international law. |
SCOTT BOHACHYK
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Scott Bohachyk is the Programme Coordinator for the United Nations Association in Canada’s International Diplomatic and Development Internships. He received his B. Ed from the University of Alberta and Masters in Development Practice (MDP) from the University of Waterloo, specializing in sustainable community development. Scott has taught in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Vancouver; volunteered in Botswana, and has recently returned to Canada after a wonderful six- month placement in Bhutan where he worked as a Junior Professional Consultant (JPC) in the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Economic Integration & Innovation Unit. Scott’s work in Bhutan involved developing innovative online social platforms to inclusively discuss youth employment policies as well as identifying market linkages for traditional income generating activities for vulnerable peoples. His research interests and development concerns primarily focus on the dynamic relationship between energy, climate change and society.
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panels and workshop SPEAKERS
The Private Sector’s Impact on the Environment and Development: Innovative or Exploitative?
alexandra mallet
Dr Alexandra Mallett is an assistant professor at Carleton’s School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) in Ottawa, Canada. Her research has concentrated on energy and environmental policy issues, including climate change and renewable energy, and on urban development issues. Her current work focuses on transitions to a low carbon economy and the nexus between innovation and adoption, particularly in the developing world. She has also been conducting research in the area of policy effectiveness pertaining to climate change, issue framing on smart grids in the Canadian media, and most recently examining energy issues in the Arctic. She has authored numerous reports on energy and climate issues, for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the Government of the United Kingdom, among others. Before coming to Carleton she worked as a research fellow at the Sussex Energy Group, a research unit in the Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU) Department at the University of Sussex. Her work there included the UK-India Collaborative Project to Overcome Barriers for Low Carbon Energy Technologies. In 2009, that project received a Green Gown Award for exceptional environmental research from the U.K. Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Masters in International Development from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and an honours B.A. in International Relations from the University of Toronto.
mArC MCARTHUR
Marc McArthur is a strategist, project development and relationship management expert in the business of clean (green) technology and sustainability. Over the past six years Mr. McArthur has helped hundreds of companies, researchers, government agencies and other stakeholders connect strategically both publicly and behind the scenes to advance the commercialisation and deployment of clean technologies. Marc has served as a Member of the Steering Committee of Project 3 of Canada’s National Bioproducts Program; a five year joint initiative of the National Research Council of Canada, Agriculture and Agrifood Canada and Natural Resources Canada to develop and commercialise technologies that have a net positive environmental impact. He has represented and delivered presentations on behalf of the cleantech sector to provincial ministers, members of parliament and conference delegates in Europe and across North America and has been interviewed by CBC National, CBC Ottawa, the Ottawa Business Journal, Ottawa Technology Magazine and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Help from those who were once Helped: The South’s Role in Development
fawad akbari
Ahmad Fawad Akbari is a medical doctor, public health professional and international development practitioner who is focused on programs and policies related to rural livelihoods, food security, poverty alleviation, health and governance and relationship between these themes and sectors for improving quality of live of rural communities. Currently Fawad works as Senior Program Manager for Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) based in Ottawa, earlier than which he worked for AKF Afghanistan and a number of other international development organizations in various capacities. He was previously a Fellow of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and has been engaged with the same institution as Resource Person and Mentor since 2010. Meanwhile, Fawad is a member of PACT-Ottawa’s Board of Governors.His research interests are in local health governance and multi-dimensional approaches to food and nutrition security.
Dane Rowlands
Dane Rowlands, Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, has been teaching at the School since 1994. His primary research interests are in international debt, multilateral financial institutions, official development assistance, and the international aspects of economic development. He also conducts research on international migration, peacekeeping, and conflict and development. He has recently been teaching courses in international finance and conflict economics.
Minister Counsellor Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1966. BA in History, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Graduated from the Brazilian Diplomatic Academy in 1992. Served at the Brazilian Mission to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva(1996-2000) and at the Brazilian Embassies in Chile (2000-2003), Bolivia (2003-2005) and Spain (2009-2014). Worked at the International Trade Division (1992-1996) of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as assistant to the Foreign Policy Advisor of the President of Brazil (2005-2009).
Social Movements in the Digital Age
Justin Paulson
Justin Paulson is a political sociologist and social theorist teaching in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Institute of Political Economy. His seminars, courses, and directed readings typically address questions of social thought and critical theory, social change, and political economy. He has been nominated for a Capital Educators’ Award and is a recipient of a 2013 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Award. Ongoing research projects include longterm studies of the contingencies of social movement success and failure, the relationship between radical imagination and social movement development and strategy, and a book on the uneven reification of capital. Recent conference papers have focused on such topics as spaces and scales of organizing, activist subcultures and mutual aid, typologies of 21st-century social movements, reification and the spaces of capital, social movements and austerity, why movements decline, and neoliberal urbanism. Dr. Paulson serves on the executive and editorial boards of the journals Studies in Political Economy and Mediations. He is also a member of the editorial collective of Red Quill Books, and serves on the advisory boards of Alternate Routes and Moment. He is also affiliated with the Duncombe Studio for Social and Cultural Analysis at Carleton. Prior to joining Carleton in 2008, he taught at Seattle University and the University of California-Santa Cruz.
ALAIN ROY
Alain Roy is the Program Director at the Canadian Section of Amnesty International. In this post, he oversees the development, implementation and evaluation of Amnesty’s campaigns as well as its grassroots organizing and public awareness efforts. Prior to joining Amnesty International in 2002, Alain worked as Director of Communications at the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, where he contributed to several advocacy campaigns, including the campaign to ban landmines, the Jubilee 2000/Drop the debt campaign and efforts to promote fair trade in Canada. He is a former special advisor to Canada’s Minister for International Cooperation and he has carried out a number of international cooperation projects in India, Pakistan, Kenya and Mexico. Alain is a part-time professor at St-Paul University. He has also been active in municipal politics where he lives in Gatineau, Québec.
KEITH HAYSOM
Keith Haysom, (Carleton, Dalhousie, New School for Social Research), is currently teaching at the School for Political Studies, University of Ottawa. His research interests include critical theory, political economy and social movements. He is currently researching the historical split, on the Left, between anarchism and Marxism, and the possibilities for productive engagement between the same.
Omar Sachedina
Omar Sachedina joined CTV NATIONAL NEWS as a correspondent in September, 2009, and has reported from the United States, Jordan, Israel, France, Mexico and South Africa. In 2013, Sachedina became CTV NATIONAL NEWS’ correspondent in the Ottawa News Bureau. Aside from covering Parliament Hill and the National Capital Region, he has also travelled with the Prime Minister to the Canadian Arctic, St. Petersburg, Russia for the G20 Summit, and Mexico for the North American Leaders' Summit. Sachedina is of Indian descent, and his family is from Uganda. Born in Vancouver, he was curious about his East African homeland, travelling there in 2005 to produce a PBS Frontline Fellowship web documentary titled Uganda: The Return, exploring the return of Asians to Uganda after the 1972 expulsion. The recipient of the 2010 RTNDA Canada President’s Fellowship, Sachedina has a degree in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal, a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York, and is a graduate of The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. Sachedina speaks French, Gujarati, and Kutchi. He enjoys travelling, music, and sampling food from around the world.
The Search for Clarity: How can we measure development?
Colleen Duggan
Colleen Duggan is a Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). She brings her expertise in human rights and the rule of law in violence affected settings to IDRC’s Policy, Strategy and Evaluation team. Between 2001 and 2005, Colleen developed IDRC’s programming in Latin America on peace and conflict and women’s rights. Before joining IDRC, she worked for more than a decade with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and with the United Nations Development Programme in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and New York. Issues she focused on with the UN included humanitarian response, security sector reform, transitional justice, human rights, and peacebuilding. She holds a Master’s in international human rights and humanitarian law from the University of Essex (UK) and a graduate degree in international development and economic cooperation from the University of Ottawa. Colleen has published works on early warning and conflict prevention, gender and transitional justice, and the ethics and evaluation.
KAIA AMBROSE
Kaia Ambrose is the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager at CARE Canada, as well as an international development consultant with a focus on facilitating the creation and implementation of learning-oriented monitoring and evaluation systems and processes. She supports organizations, projects and programs in Canada, the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America to design and implement M&E systems and processes largely based on principles and tools of developmental evaluation, and has delivered numerous M&E training workshops.
Reproductive Tourism in India: The Ethics of Choice
RAYWAT DEONANDAN
Dr. Raywat Deonandan is an epidemiologist, author, journalist, and global health specialist. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and formerly the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Canadian federal agency, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada. The 2000 recipient of the national book award of the nation of Guyana, Dr. Deonandan seeks to incorporate genuine interdisciplinarity into his work in the health sciences, exploring seemingly disparate --but actually interrelated-- topics in global disease burden, statistics, history, ethics, law, communication, and social policy. Dr. Deonandan currently sits on the Boards of Directors of both Harbourfront Centre (in Toronto) and the Canadian Society for Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CSEB), is the Editor of the CSEB's national newsletter, and maintains a regular blog with The Huffington Post Canada. He is also the founder, academic advisor, and Executive Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences, the peer-reviewed journal of the students of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences.
Prioritizing Health Concerns in Impoverished Nations
Patrick saunders hastings
Currently a doctoral student in the Population Health program at the University of Ottawa, Patrick’s core research interests center on risk assessment, global health, and emergency management. While previous research projects have focused on neglected tropical diseases and climate change, his doctoral thesis examines pandemic flu preparedness in Canada. Patrick also spends time as a risk consultant at Risk Science International, contributing to projects in areas of climate risk decision support and microbial risk assessment. He has also been involved as a blogger for Global Health Africa, the Global Health Hub, and the Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences. Patrick has a BSc in Biology from Queen’s University and an MSC in Global Health from the University of Sussex
Foreign Aid and Development: How can it be more effective?
Ian Smillie
Ian Smillie is an international development practitioner, consultant, teacher and writer. He has lived and worked in Asia and Africa, was a founder of Inter Pares and was Executive Director of CUSO. He is the author of several books, including Freedom From Want (2008), Blood on the Stone: Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade (2010) and Diamonds (2014). He helped develop the 70-government ‘Kimberley Process,’ a global certification system to halt the traffic in conflict diamonds. He is a member of the McLeod Group, he chairs the Board of the Diamond Development Initiative and is Vice President of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development. He received the Order of Canada in 2003.
Development Dragon’s Den
SUSAN SPRONK
Susan Spronk is associate professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies. Her research focuses on the experience of development in Latin America, more specifically the impact of neoliberalism on the transformation of the state and the rise of anti-privatization movements in the Andean region. Her latest research project examined the role of public sector unions and social movements in promoting the democratic reform of public water utilities in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. She obtained her PhD in Political Science from York University. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa faculty, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Cornell University. She is also a research associate with the Municipal Services Project (2008-2013), an IDRC-funded research project that focuses on policy alternatives in municipal service delivery in Africa, Asia and Latin America (http://www.municipalservicesproject.org). Her current SSHRC-sponsored research project (2011-2014) focuses on local democracy and water service delivery in Bolivia and Venezuela.
lavagnon ika
Lavagnon Ika is Assistant Professor of Project Management. Prior to joining the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, Prof. Lavagnon Ika spent six years at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau (Québec), Canada where he became Associate Professor in 2011. He holds an M.Sc. in Project Management from UQO and a PhD in business administration with specialization in International Development Project Management from the Université du Québec à Montréal, a Montreal-based joint doctoral program with McGill, Concordia, and HEC Universities. Over the past 12 years, he has taught Project Management at the B.Com and MBA levels in both the French and English languages, mainly in Canada but also in Africa and the Middle-East. He has supervised a dozen M.Sc. students and is currently supervising a PhD student from the Skema Business School (former ESC Lille, France). His research topics include: what makes a successful project; why do projects fail and what can be done about it; and what is the role of project strategy, supervision and management in project success/failure.
