William W. Keller
Author, inter alis, of Arm in Arm: The Political Economy of the Global Arms Trade. Basic/Harper Collins Canada, 1995; The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover: Rise and Fall of a Domestic Intelligence State, Princeton University Press, 1989; editor of China’s Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007; Crisis and…
Paul Blustein
Distinguished journalist; senior fellow, Brookings Institution. Author of And the Money Kept Rolling in (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina, Public Affairs, 2006; and The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF, Public Affairs, 2001.Barbara McDougall
Mrs. McDougall is an advisor at Aird & Berlis, counseling clients on matters of international business development, corporate governance and government relations. Barbara McDougall was a Member of Parliament for nine years and held several cabinet posts, including: Finance (Minister of State), Privatization, Employment and Immigration, and finally External Affairs. She is a graduate of…
David M. Malone
David Malone is a Canadian author, diplomat, and expert on international affairs. Currently, he is the United Nations Under-Secretary General, Rector of the United Nations University and has previously served as president of the International Peace Institute and the International Development Reach Centre. He is a former president of the International Peace Institute and former president…
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can be done About It
In The Bottom Billion, Collier sees 980 million people around the globe living in “trapped countries clearly heading towards a black hole.” Many of these people are in Africa, but there are large pockets of severe poverty in such places as Bolivia, Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, Laos, North Korea, Myanmar, Yemen, and elsewhere. Collier asserts…