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Dr. Warren Mabee (Ph.D. 2001, Toronto) is Professor of Geography and Planning at Queen's University, with cross-appointment to the School of Policy Studies and the School of Environmental Studies.  He has held two research chairs including the Stauffer-Dunning Chair in Public Policy and the Canada Research Chair in Renewable Energy Development and Implementation.  His international research programme focuses on the interface between policy and technology in the area of renewable energy and fuels, addressing issues that bridge the gap between researchers and decision-makers using tools such as life cycle assessment, geographic information systems and agent-based logistical models.  His past work experiences include stints at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Energy Agency.

Research Interests

• Renewable energy and environmental policy
• Energy systems
• Net-zero transitions

Recent Publications

• Arif E, Sharan A, Mabee W. 2025. An analysis of the compatibility between popular carbon footprint calculators and the Canadian National Inventory Report.  Sustainability 17(14). 10.3390/su17146629

• Kiehbadroudinezhad M, Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha H, Mabee W, Nanda S, Afshari H, Saeedi M, Rathgeber B, Benis K. 2025. Thermochemical pathways coupled with carbon capture for valorizing animal manure: a review. Biofuel Research Journal 12(2):2373-2397. 10.18331/BRJ2025.12.2.2

• Mabee WE, Nanda R, Zaman S, Walker B. 2023. Circular economy and the role of policy in informing sustainable biomass use. Canadian Journal of Plant Science 103(3):S7.

• DeLoyde C, Mabee W. 2023. Ecosystem service values as an ecological indicator for land management decisions: A case study in southern Ontario, Canada. Ecological Indicators 151: 110344. 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110344

• Mabee W, Liu Y. 2023. Normalizing Canada-China relations through development diplomacy: a case study of Canadian legacies from the first IFAD-funded international development-aid project in China, 1981-1988. Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 10.1080/02255189.2022.2161489

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Eugene Lang is Director (Acting) of the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, where he teaches in the Master of Public Administration program.  He is a Senior Fellow with the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Trinity College, University of Toronto; Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute; and Special Advisor (Policy), Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries.

Lang served in the federal government for many years, including as Chief of Staff to two Ministers of National Defence in the early 2000s. He was heavily involved in defence and foreign policy decisions during that period, including Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan, Ballistic Missile Defence, the Iraq War, the 2005 Defence White Paper and defence funding increases. An award-winning author and professor, Lang has published extensively over the past twenty years on defence policy and funding, national security and Canadian foreign relations.  He is co-author (with Janice Stein) of The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar, a frequent commentator in both Canadian and foreign media, and a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail. Lang was educated at the University of Western Ontario, Queen’s University and the London School of Economics, where he studied as a Chevening Scholar.

Research Interests

• Defence Policy, Funding and Economics

• National Security Policy

• Canadian Foreign Policy

Recent Publications

• "Can Canada Have Both Guns and Butter?  Carney Shows us, Yes we Can", Globe and Mail, June 11, 2015

• “AWOL: "Great Defence Spending Plan, Carney, It Would be a Shame if Ottawa Bureaucracy Got in the Way".  Globe and Mail, July 22, 2025

• “AWOL: Canada’s National Security Policy, Governance and Culture”, in Norman Hillmer, Philippe Legasse and Vincent Rigby eds., Canada Among Nations: 21st Century National Security, Palgrave, 2024.

• (co-author Andrew Graham) “Global Pandemics and National Security: Will the Federal Government Have Your Back?”, in Kathy Brock and Geoffrey Hale eds., Managing Federalism Through Pandemic, University of Toronto Press, 2023.

• (co-author Janice Stein) “Chretien’s Afghanistan Policy: Sound Decisions Do Not Always Produce Good Outcomes”, in Jack Cunningham and John Meehan eds., Chretien’s World: Canadian Foreign Policy, 1993-2003, University of British Columbia Press, 2025.

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugene-lang-34253118/

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Catarina Caria is a foreign affairs analyst, seasoned public speaker and invited lecturer, with a strong emphasis on European and Transatlantic Affairs, Security & Defence. She's the host of #UniãoDeFacto, a @Sábado Podcast and a regular analyst/columnist on mainstream media. She is also an adviser to the Portuguese government and a former Fulbright Scholar. Prior to joining the non-governmental sector, working as the programme manager for Europe & MENA at the Institute for Economics & Peace - the world’s leading think tank on peace metrics - Catarina worked with the United States Department of State and UK FCDO in public affairs, trade & investment, strategic communications and outreach - dealing with a plethora of issues ranging from regulatory and trade compliance, cybersecurity & defense, startups & SMEs, education, D&I and sustainability. Catarina is on the advisory board of multiple national and international organisations and she's the youngest appointed member of the strategic council of CIP - the largest confederation of businesses in Portugal - shaping foreign direct investment attractiveness and competitiveness in the country. In 2023 she was nominated as a Young Leader to join an official Portuguese delegation to New Delhi 🇮🇳 at the invitation of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Catarina holds a Master’s Degree in Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies and a Bachelor’s in Political Science and International Affairs.

Research Interests

• Security and Defence
• Transatlantic and European Affairs
• Women, Peace and Security

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catarina-caria-48156b150/

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Anessa L. Kimball (prof/they/iel) is a professor of political science in international relations at Université Laval, Québec, Canada, where they have been on faculty for nearly two decades. Since 2019, Kimball has directed the Canadian Defence and Security Network, a federally funded partnership research network. Their research combines rational institutional design and collective action approaches with different statistical methods and machine-coded (interview and international agreement) content analysis to examine how states resolve strategic problems (distribution, commitment, uncertainty) through the design of informal defence and security arrangements alongside NATO and issues of defence burden sharing, procurement, and international cooperation. Kimball’s research has been published in academic journals as well as on both university and scholarly press. Professor Kimball has served as the co-organiser and co-host of the Annual Rencontre Université-Défense at Université Laval since 2018 and has organised multiple academic conferences and workshops over the years. Kimball’s 2023 book on NATO burden sharing offered the first solo-authored book-length contribution by a non-male identifying scholar statistically examining the subject and their current research explores international security organisations as public policy agents.

Research Interests

• Bargaining & security/defence cooperation
• Defence economics and public policy
• International security and foreign affairs

Recent Publications

• A. Kimball & C. Picard. 2025. “Trudeau’s minority governments performance on national defence electoral promises: an international politics perspective,” eds. Birch, L. et al. Assessing Justin Trudeau’s minority governments (2019-2025): Navigating through 697 promises in times of crisis, Presses UL.

• A. Kimball & P. Ouellette. 2025. “An international politics perspective on Trudeau’s foreign policy and international trade promises,” Eds. Birch, L. et al. Assessing Justin Trudeau’s minority governments (2019-2025): Navigating through 697 promises in times of crisis, Presses ULaval.

• Kimball, A. 2024. “Reconceptualising burdens – NATO Centres of Excellence: Club goods, informal institutions, and partner contributions,” Defence Studies, 24(4): 559-600. Open access.

• Kimball, A. 2023. “Current and Future Challenges to Canada-US Defense Cooperation – North America, the Transatlantic, and beyond,” Politique américaine, special issue, « Le Canada face aux États-Unis: Interdépendance asymétrique - Politiques économiques - Géopolitique et sécurité » 41(2): 62-81.

• Kimball, A. 2023. Beyond 2% - NATO partners, institutions & burden management: Concepts, risks & models, 247 pages, Palgrave-Macmillan, Series: Canada & International Affairs, ISBN: 9783031221576.

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• Website: https://www.fss.ulaval.ca/notre-faculte/repertoire-du-personnel/anessa-kimball
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/profkimball.bsky.social
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anessa-l-kimball-ph-d-854a674/

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Tod retired from the Canadian Armed Forces after serving thirty-seven years as an infantry officer with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. His last position was commandant of the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, Ontario. He served overseas on multiple operational deployments in the former-Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and the Republic of South Korea. 

He is now a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr Allan English. His dissertation will seek to examine the interactions between leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Minister’s Monitoring Committee on Change as, together, they sought to implement the myriad recommendations resultant from the Somalia Affair. This will have implications on our understanding of the Canadian civil-military relationship, cultural transformation in large organizations, and change management – particularly as demonstrated by directed change by political authorities.

Research Interests

• Canadian Military History
• Civil-Military Relations
• Military Cultural Transformation

Recent Publications

• Crisis to Catalyst: The Strategic Effects of the Somali Affair on the Canadian Armed Forces, Centre for International and Defence Policy Occasional Paper Series 70 (Kingston, ON: CIDP), December 2024. https://www.queensu.ca/cidp/sites/cidpwww/files/uploaded_files/OP%2070%…
• From the Boers to the Taliban: How Canadian Attitudes Towards War Have Changed, JADEX Papers 3, (Ottawa, ON: National Defence), 2011. JADEX Papers 3 (publications.gc.ca)
• “Creating Combat Leaders in the Canadian Corps: The Experiences of Lieutenant-Colonel Agar Adamson” in Andrew Godfroy Editor, Great War Commands: Historical Perspective on Canadian Army Leadership, 1914-1918, (Kingston ON: Canadian Defence Academy Press) 2010. pp 201-238. D2-259-2-2010-eng.pdf (publications.gc.ca)
• “Leading from the Front: Lieutenant-Colonel Cameron “Cammie” Ware” in Colonel Bernd Horn Editor, Intrepid Warriors: Perspectives on Canadian Military Leaders, Toronto, ON: The Dundurn Group, 2007, pp. 199-221. D2-202 2007E (publications.gc.ca)

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todstrickland/

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Tehya Blake (she/her/elle) is a bilingual PhD student in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. She is supervised by Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky and is working on research related to women, peace and security (WPS) and conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). She is affiliated with the Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA/RAS), Women in International Security – Canada (WIIS-C), and Women in Defence and Security (WiDS).

Prior to beginning her doctoral degree, Tehya was a policy analyst with the Department of National Defence in Ottawa. She completed her M.A. at Queen’s University (2024) where she received the G.G. Baron Van der Feltz Award for the best master’s research paper in International Relations, and her B.A. (Hons) at St. Francis Xavier University (2023) where she received the Dr. John B. Stewart for best overall performance in Political Science.

Research Interests:

• Women, Peace and Security (WPS)
• International Relations
• NATO

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EJ Kelvin is a second-year Concurrent Education student at Queen’s University pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Studies with a History minor, alongside a Bachelor of Education in the Intermediate/Senior stream. Her research interests center on international relations, defence policy, and the intersection of governance, equity, and education.

Beyond the classroom, EJ serves as the Undergraduate Student Trustee on the Queen’s University Board of Trustees, representing the voice of undergraduate students in university governance and policy discussions. Previously, she was Chief Operating Officer of the Ontario Student Trustees’ Association, managing operations for a organization representing over two million students, and an Intern in the Office of the Rector, where she advanced projects focused on accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

EJ is excited to join the Centre for International and Defence Policy, where she looks forward to learning from leading researchers and gaining deeper insight into Canada’s role in global security and international affairs.

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