2011 List of Participants

UK - Canada

CHAIRMAN

Lord Hannay of Chiswick GCMG CH

Co-Chairman, All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security, former UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN

RAPPORTEUR

Professor Paul Cornish

Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies, University of Bath. Former Carrington Professor of International Security and Head, International Security Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House

UK MINISTER OPENING THE COLLOQUIUM

Rt. Hon. Lord Howell of Guildford

Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office

UK ADVISERS TO THE 2011 COLLOQUIUM

Mr Nicolas Maclean CMG

Chief Executive MWM (Strategy), former Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Mr Paul Schulte

Non-Resident Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Visiting Senior Research Fellow Centre for Science and Security Studies, Department of War Studies, Kings College, University of London

CANADIAN ADVISER TO THE 2011 COLLOQUIUM

Dr J. Andrew Grant

Assistant Professor, Queen’s University

SPEAKERS: MANSION HOUSE DINNER 1 DECEMBER

Rt. Hon. David Wootton

Lord Mayor of London

HE Mr. Kamalesh Sharma

Commonwealth Secretary-General

Mr David Craig

President, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Thomson Reuters

Mr Bob Dechert MP

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

SPEAKERS: COLLOQUIUM DINNER 2 DECEMBER

Mr Peter Watkins CBE

Director General, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

BRITISH SPEAKERS

In order of presentation

Professor Sir Adam Roberts KCMG

President, The British Academy, and Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford, former Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Rt. Hon. Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG, KBE, PC

Leader of Liberal Democrats 1988-99, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzogovina 2002-2006

Ms Monique Villa

Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG

Chairman, Global Compact Foundation

Mr Francesc Vendrell CMG

Former UN Assistant Secretary-General and EU Special Representative for Afghanistan

Sir John Holmes GCVO, KBE, CMG

Director, The Ditchley Foundation, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, former UK Ambassador to France and Portugal, and former Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

Mr Brendan Gormley

Chief Executive, Disasters Emergency Committee

Mr Michael Bailey

Senior Policy Adviser on Humanitarian and Security Issues, Oxfam

Rt. Hon. Lord Hurd of Westwell CH, CBE

Former UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

OTHER BRITISH PARTICIPANTS

Ms Rushanara Ali MP

Shadow Minister for International Development

Mr Chris Austin

Head of Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department, DFID

Sir Andrew Burns KCMG

Hon. President Canada-UK Colloquia and former British High Commissioner to Canada

Mr Anthony Cary CMG

Executive Director, Queen’s Blyth Worldwide and former British High Commissioner to Canada

Mr Peter Chenery

Hon. Treasurer CUKC

Dr. Ian Collard

Head, North America Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Professor David Cope

Director, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, CUKC Council Member

Mr Nuradin Dirie

Independent Analyst specialising in the Horn of Africa with particular interest in Somalia.

Ms Lyse Doucet

BBC Presenter

Mr George Edmonds-Brown

Executive Secretary, CUKC

Baroness Falkner of Margravine

Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesman

Mr Kevin Farrell

Political Officer, British High Commission, Ottawa

Mr Brian Ingle

Head of the Disaster Management Unit, Plan International - UK

Dr Geraldine Kenney-Wallace FRSC

Chair, Chi3 Photonics, CUKC Council Member

Dr Randolph Kent

Director, Humanitarian Futures Programme, King’s College, London

Mr William Horsley

Chairman, Association of European Journalists (UK)

Mr Roderick Johnson MNI

Chief Coastguard, HM Coast Guards

Rt. Hon. Dr Denis MacShane MP

Member of Parliament for Rotherham

Dr Ayesha Nathoo

University of Cambridge

Ms Emily Paddon

University of Oxford

Mr Philip Peacock

Chairman, Canada-UK Colloquia

Mr Dave Ramscar

Chief Fire Officer, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue

Ms Jane Reeves

Senior Vice President, Global Government Affairs Coordinator, Thomson Reuters

Major-General Sir Sebastian Roberts KCVO, OBE

Senior Army Representative at the Royal College of Defence Studies 2007 - 2010.

Mr Andrew Rosindell MP

Member of Parliament for Romford, Member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee

Ms Carla Thomas

North America Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Ms Anikka Weerasinghe

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, UK Branch

Mr Robert Wilton

Head of Policy/Political Affairs, International Civilian Office, Kosovo

CANADIAN SPEAKERS

In order of presentation

Dr Roland Paris

University Research Chair in International Security and Governance, University of Ottawa

HE Ms Elissa A. Golberg

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the Office of the United Nations at Geneva and to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and until recently Director General, Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START), Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Mr Doug Saunders;

European Bureau Chief & International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail

Mr Nolan Watson

President & CEO – Sandstorm Gold & Sandstorm Metals & Energy;
President – Nations Cry.

The Honourable Senator Hugh D. Segal OC

Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism, member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, and member of the Eminent Persons Group of the Commonwealth Secretariat

Ms Dorothée Gizenga

Executive Director, Diamond Development Initiative International

Ms Carolyn McAskie OC

Fellow at the University of Ottawa and former United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Peacebuilding Support

OTHER CANADIAN PARTICIPANTS

Dr Christopher Berzins

Deputy Director for Northern Europe, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Mr Claude Boucher

Deputy High Commissioner of Canada

HE Mr Gordon Campbell

High Commissioner of Canada

Ms W.R. Nadège Compaoré

Graduate student, Queen’s University

Dr Mel Cappe

University of Toronto and Chairman of the Canadian Advisory Committee

Colonel Robert Chamberlain MSC, CD

Director Peacekeeping Policy, Department of National Defence, Ottawa

Mr Chris Cornish

Conference Co-ordinator, Queen’s University

Dr Robert Fowler

Former Permanent Representative of Canada to the UN and former special envoy of the Secretary-General to Niger

Dr Louise Fréchette

Former Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations

Mr Kumar Gupta

Head of Advocacy, Political Affairs & Public Diplomacy, Canadian High Commission

Ms Samantha Jenkins

Dalhousie University

Mr Anatoly Levshin

Graduate student, University of Oxford

Colonel M. D. Makulowich MD, CD

Army Advisor to the Canadian Defence and Liaison Staff, London

The Honourable John McKay PC, M.P

Liberal Member of Parliament for the Riding of Scarborough – Guildwood

Ms Leslie E Norton

Director General International Humanitarian Assistance, Canadian International Development Agency

Dr Kim Richard Nossal

Director, Centre for International & Defence Studies, Queen’s University

Ms Susan Ormiston

CBC Television

Professor Tony Penikett

Tony Penikett Negotiations Inc., former Premier of the Yukon

Mr Scott Proudfoot

Minister Counsellor Political Affairs & Public Diplomacy, Canadian High Commission

Sandra Rossiter

First Secretary (Political), Canadian High Commission

Mr Ben Rowswell

Former Representative of Canada in Kandahar

Dr Jennifer Welsh

Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Commodore Kelly Williams, OMM, MSM, CD, MBA

Canada’s Defence Advisor to the United Kingdom

Dr Robert Wolfe

Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University and Canadian Coordinator

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