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Marie Bernard-Meunier
Marie Bernard-Meunier has been Canadian ambassador to UNESCO, the Netherlands and Germany. She currently sits on the boards of several public and parapublic organizations. She has contributed to numerous edited volumes, and her work appears regularly in specialized newspapers and journals.
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Derek Burney
Derek H. Burney served as ambassador of Canada to the United States from 1989 to 1993. He is senior strategic adviser to Ogilvy Renault LLP and senior research fellow for the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.
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Catherine Cano
Catherine Cano is president of Canovision, a consulting firm that specializes in the media. She advises on strategic management, the ethics of journalism, and the reorganization and multiplatform integration of newsrooms. She holds a degree in political science from the University of Ottawa and has practised journalism for 20 years in Canada and internationally. She was director of RDI, and senior content, news and current affairs director for Radio-Canada Television. She is currently a consultant for the CBC in Toronto.
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Thomas Courchene
Thomas J. Courchene is the Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at Queen's University and senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Public Policy. He is the author or editor of some 60 books and has published over 250 academic articles on a wide range of Canadian public policy issues.
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Daniel Gagnier
Dan Gagnier has over 40 years of management experience in the public and private sectors at the national and international levels. His service as chief of staff to the premiers of Ontario and Quebec enriches his experience in public policy issues and governmental processes.
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Jean-Herman Guay
A political scientist by training, Jean-Herman Guay specializes in public opinion and electoral behaviour. The author of several books and numerous articles, he created the Web sites Perspective Monde, which covers world politics since 1945, and Bilan du siècle, which covers Quebec politics since 1900. He has taught at the Université de Sherbrooke for more than 20 years.
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David Herle
David Herle is a partner in the Gandalf Group. Originally from Saskatchewan, David now lives in Toronto, where he uses opinion research to advise clients on positioning themselves or their products, managing or saving their corporate reputations, and how to communicate effectively. He used to dabble in politics, and still opines on it from time to time.
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Todd Hirsch
Todd Hirsch is the Calgary-based senior economist for ATB Financial.
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Jeremy Kinsman
Jeremy Kinsman has served as Canada’s ambassador or high commissioner to 15 countries or organizations, including Russia, Britain and the European Union. He currently heads a Community of Democracies program for democracy development and is Regents’ Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Kevin Lynch
Kevin Lynch is the former Clerk of the Privy Council, Secretary to the Cabinet and head of the Public Service of Canada. In addition, he served for a number of years as deputy minister of finance and deputy minister of industry, as well as an executive director at the International Monetary Fund.
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Pierre Martin
Pierre Martin is professor of political science and director of the Chair in American Political and Economic Studies at the Université de Montréal. He holds a BA from Université Laval and a PhD from Northwestern University. His teaching and research centres, among other things, on American politics, Canada-US relations and international political economy.
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Velma McColl
Velma McColl is a partner in Earnscliffe Strategy Group, one of the leading government relations firms in the country. She specializes in energy and climate change issues, and she has served in senior positions in the federal ministries of the environment, industry, health, and fisheries and oceans.
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Nik Nanos
Nik Nanos is a recognized leader in the public opinion research industry in Canada, and is regularly called upon by senior corporate and political decision-makers to conduct research and provide strategic counsel. He is the past national president of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, and he is a research associate professor in Canadian studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Alain Noël
Alain Noël is a professor of political science at the Université de Montréal. He works on social policy from a comparative perspective. His latest book in English is Left and Right in Global Politics (co-author Jean-Philippe Thérien, 2008). Since 2006, Alain Noël has been president of the Quebec government’s Centre d’étude sur la pauvreté et l’exclusion. He was vice-president of the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture and a member of Quebec’s Commission on Fiscal Imbalance.
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Geoff Norquay
Geoff Norquay has extensive experience in the public and private sectors. Currently he is a principal with the Earnscliffe Strategy Group. He served as director of research for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and in a variety of senior advisory capacities in the Prime Minister's Office during the 1980s. He was subsequently vice-president of government relations with British Petroleum, plc., and director of communications for the leader of the Official Opposition. He has been a panellist on CBC and CTV public affairs programs for several years.
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Gilles Paquet
Gilles Paquet is professor emeritus at the Telfer School of Management and senior research fellow at the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa. He is also editor in chief of www.optimumonline.ca and he is associated with the Centre on Public Ethics at the University Saint-Paul and the consulting firm INVENIRE.
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Robin Sears
Robin Sears is a senior communications and public affairs adviser with experience on three continents. As former national director of the New Democratic Party, Sears built their policy-making infrastructure, their first issues publication, and their first national direct mail fundraising campaign. As national campaign director, he managed their three most successful national elections.
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Gil Troy
Gil Troy is professor of history at McGill University in Montreal and a visiting scholar affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington. His latest book is Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents.
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