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DR. DOUGLAS BLAND is Professor and Chair of the Defence Management Studies Program in the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University.  His research is concentrated in the fields of defence policy making and management at national and international levels, the organization and functioning of defence ministries, and civil-military relations.  He has published books, articles, and reports and lectured in these fields in Canada, the United States, Europe, and South Africa. From 1999-2001 he was a visiting lecturer at the Center For Hemispheric Defense Studies, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Bland retired from the Canadian Armed Forces as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1990 after more than 30 years of service.  He held command appointments in Canada and Europe and staff positions also in Europe and at the Canadian National Defence Headquarters.  In his final years of service, Dr. Bland was Senior Staff Officer for Curriculum Development at the National Defence College of Canada.
Dr. Bland has completed numerous reports in defence organization and civil-military relations for the Auditor General of Canada, the Department of National Defence, the Department of Foreign Affairs and other departments and agencies in Canada.  He has taught defence policy and civil-military relations at The Royal Military College of Canada, at Kingston and lectures regularly at the Canadian Forces College and other defence institutions.  Dr. Bland was a technical adviser to the government of Canada Commission of Inquiry Into The Deployment of The Canadian Forces to Somalia. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Canadian Military Journal and the American journal Armed Forces & Society. In 2003, he was appointed as advisor to ADM (Materiel) Defence Industry Advisory Committee.
Dr. Bland is a graduate of the Canadian Army Staff College, the NATO Defence College at Rome, and holds a doctorate from Queen's University.  He was a 1992-93 NATO Fellow.  Among other works, he wrote, in 1987, The Administration of Defence Policy in Canada 1947-84, and in 1995, Chiefs of Defence: Government And The Unified Command of The Canadian Armed Forces. 

DR. UGURHAN G. BERKOK is Assoc. Professor of Econ. at the Royal Military College and Adjunct Assoc. Prof. at Queen’s University. (BA Econ. from Bosphorus Univ., Turkey, MA Quantitative Econ. from Univ. East Anglia, UK and PhD in Economics from Queen’s Univ.) His teaching positions have included Laval, McGill, Montreal, UQAM, Concordia and Sussex in the UK. His current teaching interests cover game theory, public economics, health economics, defence and national security economics. His current research interests are defence procurement offsets as signal-jamming, peacekeeping and collective action, force generation, interagency coordination, and political incentives of terrorism insurance. He is currently the Director of the Master’s program in Security & Defence Management and Policy at the Royal Military College of Canada where he is also the Director of the Institute for Defence Resources Management. 

VICE ADMIRAL (RETIRED) PETER CAIRNS served in the Canadian Navy for 39 years, retiring in 1994.  His sea commands included the submarine Onondaga, the destroyers Fraser and Margaree, the 1st Submarine Squadron and the 5th Destroyer Squadron.  In his senior appointments he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations to the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT), the Commander of Maritime Forces Pacific and the Commander of Maritime Command.  In 1997 he was appointed President of the Shipbuilding Association of Canada.  He serves also as President of the Canadian Institute of Marine Engineers, the Chairman of the Germanischer Lloyd Canadian Committee, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Ocean Technology and the Defence Industry Advisory Committee.  Admiral Cairns is a Commander of the Order of Military Merit. 

MR. STEVE DURRELL, P.Eng, President of Irving Shipbuilding Inc. and Fleetway Inc. Steve Durrell was born in Farmington Maine. In 1984 he graduated from the Maine Maritime Academy where he completed his Bachelor of Science (Marine Engineering). Steve has enjoyed a successful career with the shipbuilding group for over 24 years. Steve started his career with Irving as an engineer at Saint John Shipbuilding in the Canadian Patrol Frigate Program. In 1994 he came to Halifax in the role of Ship Manager and has most recently been leading Irving Shipbuilding Inc.’s Commercial Group. In August of 2008 he took on the role of President and is currently responsible for all operations at Irving Shipbuilding Inc. and Fleetway Inc. On a personal note, he and his wife Karen have two sons.  

LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROSS FETTERLY is the 8 Wing Trenton Administration Officer.  He was posted to Trenton this summer from the Air Staff where he was the Section Head in Director Air Comptrollership and Business Management (D Air CBM) responsible for financial management of the Air Force Budget and for Cost Analysis in the Air Staff.  He has previously been the Section Head in Director Strategic Finance and Costing (DSFC) within Assistant Deputy Minister (Finance and Corporate Services) responsible for costing analysis of all capital projects and major departmental initiatives, as well as the Section Head in Director Budget responsible for Economics.
LCol Fetterly completed a tour in February 2009 as the Chief CJ8 at COMKAF HQ, the NATO Base HQ at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.  In this position he was responsible for Finance, Procurement and Contracting.  While deployed he wrote the paper entitled Methodology for Estimating the Fiscal Impact of the Costs Incurred by the Government of Canada in Support of the Mission in Afghanistan with staff from the Parliamentary Budget Office.
LCol Ross Fetterly is a PhD candidate at RMC (War Studies) and in the process of completing his PhD Dissertation on transforming defence procurement to meet the demands of government policy.  He has a Master of Administration (MAdmin) from the University of Regina in Public Policy, a Master of Arts (MA) in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) and Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) from McGill University.  His PhD fields of study are Defence Economics, Canadian Defence Policy and Defence Cost Analysis.

COMMODORE PATRICK FINN joined the Canadian Forces in 1979 and graduated from the Royal Military College in 1984 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. On completion of his initial training in various ships and training establishments in Victoria and Halifax, he reported for service in the submarines HMCS OKANAGAN and HMCS OJIBWA prior to being transferred to the Canadian Forces Fleet School Halifax as officer in charge of Submarine Training. In 1991 he completed a Master's Degree in Business Administration at Saint Mary's University. That same year he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and joined the commissioning crew of HMCS TORONTO. In 1994 he moved to Ottawa and worked in the Canadian Patrol Frigate project office, and in 1995 he attended the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College. On completion of Staff College he was promoted to Commander and posted back to Ottawa where he spent the next three years as Staff Officer to the Chief of Defence Staff. In 1999 he assumed the duties of Task Group Technical Officer for the Atlantic Fleet, and in July 2001 he assumed Command of the Canadian Forces Naval Engineering School. He was promoted to Captain(Navy) in 2003 and posted to National Defence Headquarters as the Director Maritime Fleet Management. In May 2004 he was appointed Project Manager for the Joint Support Ship. He was subsequently sent to London, England to complete a fellowship in international studies at the Royal College of Defence Studies, and on returning to Canada in early 2008 assumed the responsibilities of Project Manager for the Canadian Surface Combatant Project. He was promoted to the rank of Commodore in January 2009. In addition to his Project Manager responsibilities Commodore Finn was appointed Director of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy, a reflection of his extensive project management experience in major shipbuilding projects. The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy is a high priority Government initiative which aims to craft a long-term, sustainable strategy to support the renewal of the federal fleet.

DR. MICHAEL A. HENNESSY a Professor of History and War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, and Dean of Continuing Studies. He is the former Deputy Project Director of the Canadian Forces Leadership Institute, and remains a Research Fellow of the Institute. Dr. Hennessy served as the founding project director and editor of the Canadian Military Journal/Revue militaire canadienne. He remains a member of the editorial board of CMJ, and is a member of the editorial boards of the Canadian Army Journal, The Canadian Historical Association journal, and the journal Defence Studies. The Journal of the Joint Services Command and Staff College (UK). His teaching fields include war technology, intelligence, foreign policy, naval procurement and national shipbuilding policy and low intensity conflict. His scholarly articles range from Canadian naval and maritime history, intelligence, strategy during the Vietnam War, Canadian foreign and defence policy and special operations forces. His publications include Strategy In Vietnam: The Marines and Revolutionary War in I Corps, 1965-1971, (Praeger, 1997), and “Operation Assurance: Planning a multinational operation for Rwanda/Zaire,” Canadian Military Journal (Spring 2001), and with B.J.C. McKercher, The Operational Art: Developments in the Theory of War, (Praeger, 1996), and War in the Twentieth Century. Reflections at Century’s End, (Praeger, 2003).

DR. STEFAN MARKOWSKI studied mathematical economics at the University of Warsaw.  He graduated with a Masters thesis in transport economics in 1966. In 1967, he moved to London to take up a lectureship in economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he also completed his economics doctorate in 1974.  In 1975, he joined the Centre for Environmental Studies in London as a Senior Scientific Office and later Principal SO specialising in urban and land economics.  In 1980, after a secondment to the Department of the Environment, he joined the Faculty of the Built Environment, South Bank Polytechnic (now University) as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Estate Management.  He also began his long standing association with a firm of land and urban economists, Roger Tym and Partners.  As an academic researcher and professional consultant, he completed several land, housing, transport and employment studies in the UK.  In 1986-87, he came to Australia on a two-year sabbatical to join the Bureau of Industry Economics (BIE) in Canberra as a Principal Economist to lead a project on technological change in Australian manufacturing industry.  He returned to Australia in 1988 as a permanent resident to take up a position at The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA).  Since 1989, Dr Markowski has also worked as a consultant with ACIL (Australia) and Unisearch.  His current teaching interests in the School of Business, UNSW@ADFA include: strategic procurement, logistics engineering and operations management, defence technology management, and defence economics and management. His research focuses on private military companies, small arms proliferation, defence procurement industry policies and trade, and international mobility of factors of production. He has published widely across all these and related areas. 

MR. MALCOLM MCLAREN is President of Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. Allied, located on the North Shore of Vancouver Harbour, is the second largest private shipyard group on Canada’s West Coast. Malcolm commenced his career in the shipyard as a summer student and has hands-on experience in a variety of tasks; storesman, docking crew and welder. After obtaining a diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Malcolm McLaren entered into the administrative side of the shipyard and has performed a wide range of duties with ever increasing responsibilities – designer, estimator, project manager and union negotiator. As a key member of the senior management group, he has been responsible for bidding and production of new ships up to 110 m long and major refits and repairs for both commercial and government sectors. As part owner and director of Allied, Mr. McLaren must often “bet the farm” when setting the bid price for major government or private sector projects. Malcolm is a member of S.N.A.M.E and Lloyd’s Canadian Committee. He is a director of the Shipbuilding Association of Canada, past Chair of the North Shore Waterfront Industrial Association and past Vice-Chair of BID-BC (Business Industrial Development-British Columbia). Mr. McLaren has and continues to serve on various committees and with associations in support of Canadian shipbuilding and favourable political support for industry.

VICE ADMIRAL JOSE SANJURJO JUL entered the Naval Academy in 1965, was commissioned as LTJG in 1970 and was posted to different units in the Fleet. In 1973 attended the School of Communications, Electronics and Electricity. The same year he was posted in Norfolk (US) as member of the Team in charge of the transfer of the US Destroyers FRAM Class to the Spanish Navy. 1977 selected to attend the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Armas Navales and graduated with a Bachelor in Engineering. In 1981 posted to the FFG-7/Carrier Program as Test/Trial Coordinator. During assignment paid frequent visits to different shipyards, industries and government facilities in the United States. 1988 posted in NAVSEA (Arlington, VA) as Engagement Manager of the NATO AAW Team. 1991 posted in the DGA (Direction General D´Armament Paris) as Director of the British/ Franco/Spanish Team responsible for the definition of a local area AAW System (FAMS & PAMS). 1993 posted as Head of the Missile Department in the Logistics Support Division (Madrid). 1994 posted in the F-100 Program Office. 2001 appointed F-100 Program Manager. 2004 promoted to Rear Admiral and appointed as Subdirector of Maintenance. 2007 promoted to ViceAdmiral and appointed as Director of New Constructions. 2009 appointed member fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain. Academics Naval Academy. Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Armas Navales (Engineering Degree) Doctor Degree in Engineering. Doctoral Thesis on Missile Defense School of Communications, Electricity and Electronics Defense System Management College (Fort Belvoir) Joint Executive Management (Centro Superior de la Defensa) Course for Promotion to Rear Admiral (Centro Superior de la Defensa) Condecorations Naval Cross First Class Naval Cross Second Class Naval Cross Cavalier of the Royal Military Order of San Hermenegildo Cross of the Royal Military Order of San Hermenegildo USN Commendation Medal. 

MR. JOHN F. SCHANK (M.S., Operations Research, University of Pennsylvania) joined RAND in 1972. He has been involved in a wide range of analysis that has included industrial base analyses, cost analyses, and studies of manpower, personnel, training, and logistic issues at both the service and joint level. He has led or co-led numerous projects for the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence. Among his larger, more influential studies were a project on sustaining the U.S. capability to design nuclear submarines, which resulted in the addition of more than $9 million to the Navy’s submarine design budget to begin work on the next class early, an analysis of alternatives (AoA) on transit of special forces through littoral areas, and an AoA on the next-generation sea-based strategic deterrent. His other recent studies have dealt with increasing aircraft carrier forward presence, sustaining key skills in the UK naval industry, workload- and workforce-management practices in U.S. Navy shipyards, and relating littoral combat ship performance to mission package inventories, home ports, and installation sites. He has authored or coauthored close to 100 documents for RAND.

MS. MAGGIE SHEPHERD is Associate Vice-Principal of the Royal Military College of Canada since 2007, Ms. Margaret Shepherd served five years as the College’s Director of Academic Services. She has taught courses in organizational behaviour and theory, HR management, labour relations and Operations management at the RMCC and Queen’s University (Kingston). She holds degrees from Université Laval in Quebec and the Royal Military College of Canada.

DR. WIM SMIT is Associate Professor of Science, Tech­nology and Society (STS), at the School of Management and Governance of the Univer­sity of Twente, the Netherlands. After receiving his PhD in Physics (1973), he went into STS studies. He has published on such issues as Assessment and Dynamics of (Military) Technological Develop­ments, Assessment of Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Proliferation, and on Societal Risk Assess­ment. His publications on Military Technology include ‘Military Technologies and Politics’ in Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (2006), ‘Science, Technology and the Military’ in International Encyclopaedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences (2001), 'Science, Technology, and the Military: Relations in Transition'­, in Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (1995). He co-authored ‘Naval Shipbuilding in Europe’ in The Restructuring of the European Defence Industry, Dynamics of Change (2001) and Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation (1983).
His current research interest is in co-evolutionary patterns in the relation between naval technical change and either sustaining or disruptive developments in way of war fighting. 

DR. BINYAM (BEN) SOLOMON Senior Defence Scientist, Centre for Operational Research and Analysis-Defence R&D Canada and Team Leader, Defence Economics Team. Mr. Solomon joined the public service in 1990 as a research analyst with the Time Series Analysis Division of Statistics Canada (SC) and later as a Statistician for the transportation division. He is currently Senior Defence Scientist, Centre for Operational Research and Analysis-Defence R&D Canada and Team Leader, Defence Economics Team, at National Defence Headquarters. He has previously worked for the Assistant Deputy Minister Finance as Chief Economist and head of the Defence Economics Research and Analysis section as well as the Policy group where he conducted a multi-lateral study on Allied military training in Canada, attrition and recruitment modeling and forecasting; and an interdepartmental and intergovernmental project on the economic consequences of infrastructure reduction on the national, provincial and local economies. Mr. Solomon has also conducted various studies on peacekeeping economics including a case study on the United Nation mission in Haiti. Mr. Solomon holds a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Ottawa and a Ph D in Defence Economics from the University of York, United Kingdom. He has also completed courses in Defence Resource Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and Peacekeeping Management and Command Course from the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Nova Scotia. He is an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University and RMC and co-Director of the Institute for Defence Resource Management (IDRM). 

REAR ADMIRAL (Retired) BRYN WEADON who was born in Barton-on-Sea, England in 1957 immigrated to Canada in 1965. He enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1974 to attend Military College and graduated from the Collège Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean with a degree in Business Administration in 1979. Rear Admiral Weadon has served as the Supply Officer of HMCS NIPIGON, the First Canadian Submarine Squadron and HMCS ALGONQUIN.  He was the Senior Logistics Officer for Maritime Forces Atlantic, Canada’s East Coast Navy, and the Commander Canadian Forces Recruiting Group, responsible for all Canadian Forces recruiting activities. Rear Admiral Weadon was a Section Head in the Directorate of Costing Services at National Defence Headquarters, Comptroller for the Navy, and the Director General Financial Management and Senior Full-time Financial Officer for the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces. He was promoted to his present rank in April 2006 and assumed his current position as Assistant Deputy Minister Finance and Corporate Services and Senior Finance Officer for National Defence in February 2007.  Rear Admiral Weadon was awarded his designation as a Certified Management Accountant in 1986 and Professional Logistics Designation in 2000.  He currently serves as a National Director of the Logistics Institute.  He is a graduate of both the Advanced Military Studies Course and National Security Studies Courses. 

DR. STUART YOUNG joined the Royal Navy in 1977 as a Marine Engineer Officer and was educated to Masters-level at the Royal Naval Engineering College in Plymouth. In addition to range of operational appointments at sea, he has undertaken a number of acquisition-related posts in the Ministry of Defence. These included three years as the Defence Equipment Marine Engineer with the Defence Staff at the British Embassy in Washington, where he was responsible for liaison with the US Department of Defence on a number of key warship programmes. He was also the Electric Ship Programme Manager in the Defence Procurement Agency with direct responsibility for a major UK-French technology development programme. This subsequently led to the selection of innovative technologies for the propulsion systems in the new Type 45 Destroyer and the Future Carrier. More recently he was a key member of the team developing the Defence Logistics Organisation’s strategic plan for achieving defence logistics transformation. This was followed by a period as Business Manager for the Defence Electronic Commerce Service, a Public-Private Partnership between the MoD and Capgemini to provide a range of e-business services to the MoD. In his final appointment in the Royal Navy he worked in the Defence Management and Leadership Centre at Shrivenham, where he was responsible for senior management development programmes, with particular emphasis on the development of acquisition skills to meet the requirements of the Defence Acquisition Change Programme. Following his retirement from the Royal Navy in April 2008, Stuart joined Cranfield University as the Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence Acquisition, where he has a particular interest in the relationship between the MoD and Industry across the supply chain and the application of Through-Life Capability Management to major acquisition programmes. Stuart is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He is married, with two expensive children, both at university. In his spare time he is a keen dinghy sailor and dabbles in photography.