Chair
Associate Professor
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
Arpi Hamalian is a professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University, where she has served as Chair of the Department of Education, Director of the graduate programs in Educational Studies and Adult Education, and as Principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for Women's Studies. The first woman president of the Concordia University Faculty Association, she has also served as President of the Québec Federation of University Professors and of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO's Sectoral Commission on Education. Ms. Hamalian has also served on several editorial boards for academic journals such as the Canadian Journal of Development Studies and as President of professional associations such as the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development. Her academic work focuses on the role of educational policy in multicultural societies, education and cultural diversity issues, the education of immigrants and minorities and the impact of technology on social change and transformation. Arpi Hamalian has also received Concordia University's Student Life Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Governor General's 125th Anniversary medal for service to Community and Country.
Colin Cooke
Deputy Chair
Ottawa, Canada
Colin Cooke has 20 years of experience in banking, investments and financial services in Canada.His volunteer efforts have been wide-ranging and he has served on the board of organizations focused on the arts, sports research, and library services. He currently sits on the City of Ottawa 'Arts, Heritage and Culture Advisory Committee'. During his tenure as Chair of the Board of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society, he led the transition from a founder-led organization to a professionally-managed entity. At the same time, this small arts group raised some 80% of the funds needed to build a $32 million concert hall in downtown Ottawa before an imposed deadline halted the effort. These experiences have led to a strong interest in governance and financial sustainability issues in the not-for-profit sector. Education includes participation in Governance programs with the Institute of Corporate Directors as well as both of the capital's universities.
Ron Salole
Treasurer
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
Toronto, Canada
Ron Salole is the Vice President, Standards at the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA). He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1972 while with Coopers & Lybrand in London , England. After spending 5 years as controller of a manufacturing corporation in England, Ron was appointed research director at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand in 1976. He then joined the CICA in 1982 as a project manager and has worked on numerous studies and accounting projects with increasing departmental responsibilities, including five years as Director of Accounting Standards and six years as Public Sector Accounting Director. Ron is a member of the Accounting Standards Board, Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, Public Sector Accounting Board, Accounting Standards Oversight Council and Auditing and Assurance Standards Oversight Council. He also acts as the Technical Advisor to the Canadian Delegate of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board and an active CICA Representative on several International Standard Setting activities. Ron was treasurer of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association from July 1991 to June 1995, and the Ontario Council for International Co-operation from July 1992 to June 1996.
Gilbert Winham
Past Chair
Emeritus Professor
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Canada
Gilbert Winham, formerly Eric Dennis Memorial Professor, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Since joining the faculty at Dalhousie in 1975, Professor Winham has taught Theories of International Relations, American Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Negotiation, and International Trade Law. He served as Director, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies from 1975-1982; and Chairperson, Department of Political Science from 1985-1988. Mr. Winham received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968, a Diploma in International Law from the University of Manchester, England in 1965, and an A.B. from Bowdoin College in 1959. He received the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 2001, the Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship in 1988 and the Rockefeller Fellowship in International Relations in 1979. Mr. Winham has published several writings on trade negotiations including NAFTA, the WTO, and the Halifax G-7 Summit. He has also served on numerous trade advisory committees and NAFTA dispute settlement panels, and he regularly conducts training in trade negotiation at the WTO for officials coming from developing countries.
Joseph K. Ingram (as of August 15, 2010)
President and Chief Executive Officer
The North-South Institute
Ottawa, Canada
OTHER BOARD MEMBERS
José Aylwin
Co-Director
Observatorio Ciudadano (Citizens' Watchdog)
Temuco, Chile
Jose Aylwin is a human rights lawyer from Chile, specialized in Indigenous peoples and citizens' rights in Latin America. He is currently the acting Co-Director of the Observatorio Ciudadano (Citizens' Watch), an NGO which promotes the protection of human rights in Chile (www.observatorio.cl). His research has been published by different organizations including the University of La Frontera, Chile, the United Nations (ECLAC), the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, IWGIA (Denmark), and the University of Montana, on topics including Indigenous peoples' land rights, ombudsmanship in Latin America, globalization and human rights in Latin America and human rights in Chile. Mr. Aylwin graduated in legal and juridical studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile in Santiago and obtained a Master in Laws degree from the School of Law at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. He also teaches Indigenous Peoples' Rights at the School of Law at the Universidad Austral de Chile, in Valdivia, Chile.
Anyle Coté
Development Officer,
Social Economics
Conférence régionale des élus de
Montréal (CRÉ)
Montreal, Canada
Anyle Coté manages the activities of the social economy sector of the Conférence régionale des élus (CRÉ) of Montreal, an organization that focuses on regional development. From 2003 to 2008, she was responsible for special events and publications at Rights and Democracy (International Center for Human Rights and International Development). In 2005, she was awarded the Equinox prize for "Societal Campaign of the Year" by the Société québécoise des professionnels en relations publiques (SQPRP) for organizing the Pan Canadian tour of the John-Humphrey Freedom Award, an international award presented annually to an outstanding human rights activist. Anyle also spent five years working as Program Officer, Education, at the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Ottawa and a Masters degree in Political Science from Carleton University. Anyle also currently sits on the Board of Directors of the SQPRP.
E. N. (Nick) Hare
Former Commonwealth Deputy
Secretary General and former
Canadian Ambassador in Africa
Ottawa, Canada
Ewan (Nick) Hare served as Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General (Development Cooperation) from 1993 to 2000. He holds degrees in Political Science and Public Administration, and began his career with the Government of Canada in 1961 as an analyst with the Treasury Board, and then volunteered with CUSO and taught in rural Sarawak for two years. He joined the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) as a Program Officer and was later posted to the Canadian High Commission in Ghana as First Secretary, Development. On returning to CIDA he was named Regional Director responsible for Canada's development assistance programs in South-East Asia, and then assumed the same position for Central and Southern Africa. In 1978 he was appointed Director General (Social Development) and then Director General UN Programs. In 1984 he joined DFAIT and was named Ambassador to Zaire, with concurrent accreditation to Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo. On his return to Canada, he assumed responsibility for developing Canada's trade with Africa before moving to CIDA's Industrial Co-operation Division as Director General. In 1991 he was appointed High Commissioner to Nigeria, with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Benin. Until recently, Nick was on the Boards of Directors of the Canadian Hunger Foundation as Past Chair, the Pearson Peacekeeping Center, and the Retired Heads of Mission Association, Chair of the CCAF's International Committee. He is currently on the board of CESO/SACO. He has been an electoral observer in Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Haiti, the Congo, Kenya and Burundi.
François Gérin-Lajoie
President
La fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie
Montreal, Canada
François Gérin-Lajoie is President and CEO of the Paul Gérin-Lajoie Foundation, an NGO that focuses on education and youth literacy, as well as on providing training for young adults in developing countries. What's more, the organisation raises awareness on issues of international development to an audience of Canadian elementary school students and their parents. Mr. Gérin-Lajoie is also President of The Quebec Association of International Cooperation Organisations and is a member of the Board of the Canadian Federation for Mentoring. An economist who holds an MBA, François Gérin-Lajoie is an expert in the areas of finance, international marketing and international cooperation.
Danika Billie Littlechild
Lawyer
Littlechild Law Offices
Hobbema (Alberta), Canada
Danika Billie Littlechild is an associate at J. Wilton Littlechild Law Office located on the Ermineskin Cree Nation, of which she is also a member, in Hobbema, Alberta. Her practice involves Aboriginal law, Indigenous governance, intellectual property, corporate/commercial law, and not-for-profits / societies. She advises clients on issues involving governance under the Indian Act, the codification of Indigenous forms of governance, protection of various forms Indigenous knowledge, First Nation economic development, and has advised various First Nations and Aboriginal organizations in areas of health, education, social services and child welfare. Danika is a member of the Canadian Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and is currently the Vice Chair of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO Sectoral Commission on Culture, Communication and Information. She has also served as a representative of Canada with the Official Canadian Delegation to the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, held in Tunis, Tunisia. Danika received her L.L.B. from the University of Toronto in 2000, and her B.A. (Hons.) from Carleton University in 1997. She is a member of the Alberta Bar, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Indigenous Bar Association.
Thandika Mkandawire
Professor
London School of Economics
London, United Kingdom
Professor Thandika Mkandawire is former Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and the first person to take on the new position of Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics (LSE). An economist, he specializes in development issues. Prof. Mkandawire was formerly Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen and has taught at the Universities of Stockholm and Zimbabwe.
Bruce Moore (as of May 2010)
Director - Institute for Active Citizenship
Ottawa, Canada
Bruce H. Moore serves on the boards of the Forum on Democratic Global Governance and the Terra Institute, a non-profit research group associated with the University of Wisconsin. From 1998-2008, Mr. Moore was the founding director of the International Land Coalition (headquartered in Rome), an alliance of UN, civil society, and multilateral organizations promoting policies to enable the rural poor to gain resource rights. He currently represents the Asian NGO Coalition and the Social Development Foundation in North America, and serves on the NGO Food Security Policy Group. His NGO career, from 1973 to 1998, included 10 years as the Director of Partners in Rural Development. He has chaired the NGO advisory committee to the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development; served on the international executive of the Society for International Development 1998-2008; been an advisor to the European Commission, FAO, African Union, Asian Development Bank, and World Bank. He has chaired a number of high-level policy dialogues during the Commission on Sustainable Development; and was a member of the implementation advisory committee to the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor. He is a member of Transparency International.
José Antonio Ocampo
Professor
Columbia University
New York, United States
José Antonio Ocampo is Professor and Director of the Economic and Political Development Program in the School of International and Public Affairs and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He has occupied numerous positions at the UN including co-director of the UNDP/OAS Project, "Agenda for a Citizens' Democracy in Latin America", Member of the Commission of Experts of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, and Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. He has received numerous distinctions, including the 2008 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought and the 1988 Alejandro Angel Escobar National Science Award of Colombia. Published extensively, his latest books are Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach, with Lance Taylor and Codrina Rada (2009), and Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis, edited with Stephany Griffith-Jones and Joseph E. Stiglitz (2010). Mr. Ocampo is a Colombian citizen, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.
Jyoti Parikh
Executive Director
Integrated Research and Action for Development
New Delhi, India
Jyoti K Parikh is Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi, and a Member of the Advisory Council on Climate Change for the Prime Minister of India. In 2007, she was a member of the team of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who were Nobel Peace Prize laureates. Ms. Parikh is also an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India (NASI) and has provided expertise on energy to many different agencies including the UNDP, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy, the European Economic Community, and UNESCO. She holds an M.Sc. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Ms. Parikh has published nearly 200 project research papers and 25 books on energy, economics, climate and natural resources. For a list of titles and references, see www.irade.org.
John G. Williams
Global Organization of
Parliamentarians Against
Corruption (GOPAC)
Morinville (Alberta), Canada
John G. Williams is a Fellow of the Certified General Accountants Association (F.C.G.A.) and the Founder and CEO of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC). GOPAC is an international network of parliamentarians dedicated to enhancing accountability of governments by strengthening parliaments. Since its inception in 2002, it has grown to more than 700 members in 80 countries and has organized a number of international conferences and events on corruption and good governance. From 1993 to 2008, John Williams was a Member of Parliament representing Edmonton-St. Albert, Alberta and was Chair of the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons from 1993 to 2006. He is currently Member of the Board and Executive of the Parliamentary Centre, as well as member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Corruption, among others, Mr.Williams is the author of several publications including "Strengthening Government & Parliamentary Accountability in Victoria" (Australia) (2007).