Barbara Martin has over 30 years of experience in Canada’s department of foreign affairs. Over the course of her career, Ms. Martin worked on a diverse range of international policy areas including security, peacekeeping, development, economic relations, human rights and Canada’s relations with the US. She also has extensive experience with respect to Canada’s multilateral engagement in the UN, ASEAN, G8, G20, NATO and NORAD. In 2013, she co-chaired the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group during Russia’s G20 Presidency.

She was Director General for the Middle East and North Africa during the tumultuous period of the Arab Spring. And, having worked on Canada’s engagement in Afghanistan in the early years immediately following 9/11, she was later Director General of the Afghanistan Task Force during the lead up to Canada’s withdrawal from Kandahar. She has also worked in various capacities in the Privy Council Office, including in the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat, and the Security and Intelligence Secretariat.

Abroad, Ms. Martin has served in Canada’s embassy in Manila, Philippines (during the People Power Revolution), as well as in Canada’s Delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France where, among other responsibilities, she addressed energy, environment and development issues.

She is a graduate of Queen’s University, with an MPA from the School of Policy Studies, as well as a BA Hons and a BEd. She spent one year of her undergraduate degree at St. Andrew’s University, Scotland. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI). In addition, she has served as an elected Councillor in the Municipality of Chelsea, Quebec. 

Dr. Colin Magee is the Senior Evaluator, and Concepts and Doctrine Developer at the Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and Security, at the Canadian Defence Academy. Dr. Magee retired from the Canadian Armed Forces as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2020, with close to four decades of command, staff, concept development and teaching experience in Canadian and international civilian and Professional Military Educational institutions, as well as practical experience in planning, commanding and conducting operations. 

Dr. Magee received his PhD in Management (Organizational Leadership in Complex Environments) from the University of Guelph, and holds master’s degrees, in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Master’s of Military Arts and Sciences, from the US Army Command and General Staff College. 

Dr Magee has taught courses in the Theories of War, Leadership, Ethics, Strategic and Operational Planning, Organisational Behaviour, Defence and Security Policy, at the graduate level at academic and professional military institutions. He has also extensively developed and taught courses at the Canadian Forces College, US Army Command and General Staff College, and the Australian Command and Staff College in subjects related to senior officer professional and academic development

Dr. Magee has a number of operational deployments to Cyprus, Somalia and Afghanistan. In addition, he has served with NATO, the US Army, Australian Defence Force and as the Deputy Military Advisor at the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations. His professional and academic backgrounds resulted in co-authoring a number of Canadian, Australian, American and United Nations policy documents, concepts and manuals, as well as academic works.    

A deeply interdisciplinary professional with two decades of experience, Malumir has spent the most recent decade delivering both formal and informal leadership with increasing responsibility on high visibility portfolios in three orders of public service in Canada. From negotiating the terms of a multi-billion dollar funding agreement, to overseeing a $2 billion infrastructure program, and leading a team through several organizational transformations, Malumir's modus operandi has been to deliver exemplary people-centered leadership with wise stewardship.

In addition to her Master of Public Administration from Queen's University and Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning from Ryerson University, Malumir also spent a decade in multidisciplinary fulltime work experience which helped to inform her broad and inclusive perspective, including experience in media, the education sector and frontline customer service. Malumir is also a small business owner, a mixed settler and neurodivergent. Malumir identifies as she and her. 

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Eugene Lang is Director (Acting) of The School of Policy Studies.  He teaches the core courses MPA 802 (Applied Policy Analysis) and MPA 810 (Introduction to Public Administration), as well as the elective course MPA 876 (Instruments and Institutions of Public Finance). 

For several years Eugene coached the School of Policy Studies team to the National Public Administration Case Competition, including to a gold medal in 2024.  In 2025 he was appointed National Co-Chair of the Case Competition.

Eugene is dedicated to enriching the student experience and supporting students in and outside of the classroom.  In 2023 he was named a Queen’s University Champion for Mental Health by the Campus Wellness Project.  In 2025 he was awarded the John G. Freeman Award For Faculty Excellence, from The Society of Graduate and Professional Students. 

Eugene began his career in the federal government and worked in both the public service and in Cabinet Minister’s offices, serving as Policy Advisor to the Solicitor General of Canada; Senior Policy Advisor (Economic) to the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada; Senior Economist, Finance Canada; Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State (Finance); Chief of Staff to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Chief of Staff to the Minister of National Defence. 

He has also worked for twenty years in the private sector, first at Bell Canada Enterprises and subsequently as a consultant advising domestic and multinational companies and business associations on public policy and advocacy.

A Senior Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Trinity College, University of Toronto; Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute;  and Fellow of the Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University, Eugene was previously Visiting Fellow at the Munk School of International Studies, University of Toronto, and BMO Visiting Fellow, Glendon School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Glendon College, York University.  At Glendon College, he taught in the Master of Public and International Affairs program and served as Interim Co-Director of the School.

Eugene is the co-author of two books, including The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar, a national best-seller which won the Writer’s Trust Cohen Award for political writing, was short-listed for the Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy, was named one of the Globe and Mail’s top one hundred books of the year, and was the basis for a documentary film produced by Global Television. 

His writings have appeared in various edited books as well as Policy Options, Policy Network, International Politics and Society, International Journal, Policy Perspectives (Canadian Global Affairs Institute), The Global Exchange, Walrus and The Conversation.  He has also published hundreds of columns in all of Canada’s major newspapers and contributes op eds regularly to The Globe and Mail. 

Eugene has spoken at various universities and think tanks in Canada and abroad and has testified as an expert witness to federal government commissions and inquiries.  He has appeared as a commentator on CBC radio and television, CTV, Global Television/Radio, BNN-Bloomberg, numerous podcasts and is quoted regularly in print media.

Educated at the University of Western Ontario (B.A., M.A., political science), Queen’s University (M.P.A.) and the London School of Economics (M.Sc. International Political Economy), where he studied as a Chevening Scholar, Eugene lives in Ottawa with his wife and children.

Professor Wenjue L. Knutsen is one of Canada’s leading academics who studies nonprofit organizations and public policy. She is jointly appointed in three departments at Queen’s: the Smith School of Business, the Faculty of Health Sciences – School of Nursing, and the School of Policy Studies. She holds a doctorate (Ph.D.) in public administration from one of the leading public administration programs in the United States, the Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. She also holds a Masters in Public Administration (M.P.A.) from Wayne State University.

Professor Knutsen’s research spans issues of management, health care, public policy, and public administration, all in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She has studied issues about government-nonprofit collaboration, as well as the effectiveness of applying business managerial strategies in the nonprofit sector. She is currently studying how to lead social change through business means and how to address the lack of financial independence of the social sector through social innovations. Her research implicates issues with social enterprises, social finance, social enterprise ethics, and social enterprise legal structures.  

Professor Knutsen is a co-editor of the country’s leading nonprofit management textbook: Management of Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations in Canada (5^th edition). Her work has appeared in top academic journals such as Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, as well as in books and journals published around the world. She is also currently an editorial board member for Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. She has presented her academic work throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Israel and China.

She was awarded the Felice Davidson Perlmutter Award in 2016 for her research contributions by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, America’s leading academic organization for nonprofit scholars.

Professor Knutsen is frequently invited by media, government, and industry to provide her perspectives about nonprofit organizations, whether in the news or at an event or conference.

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Bahman Kashi is a Term Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queen’s University and the founder and an economist with Limestone Analytics. Before Limestone, he worked for eight years as a consultant in the areas of economic impact assessment, public investment management, economic analysis of development projects, and evaluation of social programs.

Dr. Kashi has worked on capacity building and technical advisory projects in Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Haiti, Malaysia, Canada, United States, Cyprus, Ghana, Lesotho, Indonesia, and Switzerland. His research interests include economics of energy, transport, and telecommunication markets; private sector engagement and innovative finance; integration of environmental and social impacts into cost-benefit analysis, monitoring and evaluation; and institutional aspects of impact analysis.

Dr. Kashi has held numerous professional positions under multi-year technical contracts, including the Research Director for USAID’s Learning, Evaluation, and Analysis Project (LEAP) III (2018 - 2022) and a Senior Advisor to the Economic Analysis division of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) (2018 - 2021).

Morah Fenning is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University. She first joined the School as the Ontario Public Service Amethyst Fellow for 2015 and 2016. She was previously Assistant Deputy Minister of the Tourism Planning and Operations Division, responsible for developing the Ministry's tourism agencies and attractions as catalysts for regional economic development and as internationally-recognized travel destinations. She oversaw the provincial relationship with its tourism agencies and attractions, ensuring good governance and accountability as well as investments in capital infrastructure.

Morah was also with Ontario – Open for Business, where she designed and delivered a best-in-class government modernization agenda to support the adoption of leading practices in regulatory reform and service improvements across all ministries. She also led a transformational policy reform of the child welfare system as the Executive Director of the Child Welfare Secretariat. As Director of the Drive Clean Office, Morah oversaw the Province’s outsourced vehicle emissions testing program, while leading the ministry’s review of its inspection, investigation and enforcement functions. She also led the Ministry of Transportation’s Licensing and Control Branch, and prior to that, was the project manager for the Ontario Advisory Group on Safe Driving. Morah started her career in correctional services, working in the criminal justice system for more than a decade.

Morah has an Honours B.A. from the University of Waterloo, a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from York University and has completed the Executive Program at the Queen’s University School of Business. In 2018, she was selected to participate in Cultural Intelligence learning and experiential study tours in England and Malaysia with senior leaders from across the commonwealth. She retired in 2019 and enjoys teaching the next generation of public servants.

Don Drummond is the Stauffer-Dunning Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. In 2011-12, he served as Chair for the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services. Its final report, released in February 2012, contained nearly four hundred recommendations to provide Ontarians with excellent and affordable public services. 

Mr. Drummond previously held a series of progressively more senior positions in the areas of economic analysis and forecasting, fiscal policy and tax policy during almost 23 years with Finance Canada. His last three positions were respectively Assistant Deputy Minister of Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of Tax Policy & Legislation and most recently, Associate Deputy Minister. In the latter position he was responsible for economic analysis, fiscal policy, tax policy, social policy and federal-provincial relations and coordinated the planning of the annual federal budgets.

He subsequently was Senior Vice President and Chief Economist for the TD Bank (2000-2010), where he took the lead with TD Economics’ work in analyzing and forecasting economic performance in Canada and abroad.  For Canada, this work was conducted at the city, provincial, industrial and national levels. TD Economics also analyzes the key policies which influence economic performance, including monetary and fiscal policies. He is a graduate of the University of Victoria and holds an M.A. (Economics) from Queen’s University.  He has honorary doctorates from Queen’s and the University of Victoria and is a member of the Order of Ontario. 

Mr. Drummond is currently Chair, Canadian Centre for the Study of Living Standards; Fellow-in-Residence, C.D. Howe Institute and; member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices.