Renée Filiatrault has served three Ministers of National Defence for Canada. From 2009-2010 she served as a Foreign Service Officer in Afghanistan with Task Force Kandahar. Prior to this she…
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer has been the Ambassador-designate of the French Republic to the United Republic of Tanzania since August 10, 2026. Since 2022, he has served as France’s ambassador…
Mathieu Landriault (Ph.D.) is the director of the Observatory on Politics and Security in the Arctic (OPSA). He teaches at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International…
Ben Rowswell has been President and Research Director of the Canadian International Council since November 2018.Prior to the CIC, Ben served as Canada’s Ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 to 2017.…
Thierry Tardy is Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Previously he held senior research and management positions at the EU Institute for Security Studies…
Kerry Buck was most recently Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Board, Economic Sector, from 2018 to 2021. Prior to that, she was Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO from…
Joël Plouffe is advisor for the Arctic Council Secretariat. He is also a researcher at CIRRICQ (Center for Interuniversity Research on the International Relations of Canada and Québec) at the…
Having accumulated more than 35 years of varied experience with the Canadian Army (career in the infantry with the Royal 22e Régiment), BGen (ret'd) Richard Giguère has worked in operational…
André is a civil servant with the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) and has worked for more than 20 years in diplomacy and international cooperation, with a particular…
Michael Shurkin is the Director of Global Programs at 14 North Strategies and the founder and President of Shurbros Global Strategies. He works on security in West Africa (Sahel), but…