Robert P. Cameron

A former Canadian Ambassador. He served as Director-General of International Security Affairs in the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa and as representative of the department on the Canada-U.S. Permanent Joint Board on Defence.

Charles A. Kupchan

Charles A. Kupchan will be representing the United States. Dr. Kupchan is the Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations and an associate professor of international relations at Georgetown University. He is the former Director for European Affairs on the U.S. National Security Council. He is also the author of three works…

Phillip Knightley

Phillip Knightley, renowned British author and journalist. As a two-time winner of the British Journalist of the Year Award and winner of the Overseas Press Club of America Award for the best book on foreign affairs in 1975 (The First Casualty), Mr. Knightley is well versed in world politics. He is also the author of…

Allan Gotlieb

Allan Gotlieb, a former Canadian Ambassador to the United States. Mr. Gotlieb has written widely on international law and diplomacy. He is the former Under Secretary of State for External Affairs and head of the department’s Legal Bureau. Currently, Mr. Gotlieb serves on the governing council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London,…

Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor, well-known and widely respected Canadian author and foreign relations journalist, with expertise as a reporter who has worked in the trenches of some fifty countries, covered the Vietnam, Arab-Israeli and Nigerian wars, and written five books. These include the best-selling China Hands: The Globe and Mail in Peking (Editor), and Radical Tories: The…

James H. Taylor

Returned this year as jury chair; Chancellor Emeritus of McMaster University and former Undersecretary of State for External Affairs and International Trade Canada; was Canadian Ambassador to Japan; other postings include Vietnam, India, Moscow, Paris; former Ambassador and permanent representative of the OECD and NATO.