Steven Weber (UC Berkeley) is a specialist in international relations. Trained in history and international development at Washington University, and medicine and political science at Stanford, Weber joined the Berkeley faculty in 1989. In 1992 he served as special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He has…
DetailsMark Starowicz is executive director of CBC’s Documentary Programming. In a radio and television career spanning over three decades at CBC he created some of Canada’s most influential current affairs and documentary programs. On radio he produced As It Happens and created Sunday Morning. On television he was the architect and executive producer of The…
DetailsDavid Frum is a Canadian American journalist active in both the American and Canadian political arenas. He has been a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a contributing editor to National Review, a columnist for the National Post and Forbes magazine, and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph in Great Britain and to…
DetailsPaul Cadario is Senior Manager of Trust Fund Quality Assurance and Compliance at the World Bank. He oversees compliance and quality assurance for external funds managed and disbursed by the World Bank as a trustee for governments, foundations, NGOs, and private partners. Paul has been with the World Bank since 1975 where he has worked…
DetailsRachel Lomax is a British economist and a former government official who served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, sitting on the Monetary Policy Committee. She has experience in the public and private sectors, plus a deep knowledge of the operations of the UK government and financial system. As the World Bank’s first…
Details“Polar Imperative, Shelagh Grant’s riveting history of adventure, sovereignty, and environment around the Arctic Ocean, is a comprehensive account of the interplay of politics, economics, institutions and culture that few ever experienced first-hand. Her well-told chronicle deftly documents the back story on diplomatic and military events well before the 24-hour news cycle. As climate change…