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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT : BRIDGING THE WORLDS OF THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE AN EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM INTERNAAT MCGILL UNIVERSITTIONALY, MONTREAL, QUEBEC DEVELOCT. 27>31, 2014OPMENT : BRIDGING THE WORLDS OF THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE AN EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL, QUEBEC OCT. 27>31, 2014 Program Material non-governmental organizations, foundations and within the private sector. And if that weren’t enough, like-minded people increasingly create their own opportunities by creating organizations such the Nobel Prize winning Doctors Without Borders. This unique combination of genuine interest and unprecedented opportunities is both promising at the same time that it can be overwhelming. Where does one start? How does one start? Or, perhaps even more importantly, is this really the right choice for everyone? Our Executive Education Certificate, International Development: Bridging the Worlds of Theory, Policy and Practice, was designed to provide people contemplating a career in international development with the foundation they will need to begin to answer these questions. Completing the program will provide you with the tools to navigate an increasingly complex set of opportunities, and at the same time help you to decide what the best path is for you. Philip Oxhorn These are exciting times and we want to help you make Professor of Political Science and Founding Director the most of them! Message from the Director About Our Institute The Institute for the Study of International Development Throughout North America, if not the world, is one of a few select North American epicenters interest in international development has for development research and teaching, generating reached a level not seen since the 1960s. impressive levels of original research, establishing From high school students (and sometimes new relations with the international development elementary school students as well!) to retirees, community, and training future generations of more and more people want to venture out to researchers, teachers, policymakers and development help make the world a better place. Yet there practitioners. are important differences compared to the 1960s. Mired in the idealism of the early Cold War, engagement in international development Program Details 50 years ago often entailed a very romanticized perspective on both the goals of “development” and the ability of well-meaning Westerners to contribute to its achievement. Today’s idealism is far more pragmatic, if not realistic, recognizing that what can be achieved and the role that Westerners can play in achieving it are often limited by realities we cannot control and the legitimate desire of people in developing The Executive Education program will be held at countries to shape their own destinies. This McGill University, Montréal, from October 27 to same down-to-earth approach has similarly October 31 at: changed the nature of the opportunities to participate. Whereas half a century ago Desautels Faculty of Management state development agencies enjoyed a near McGill University monopoly over such opportunities, it is easy for 1001 Sherbrooke Street Ouest, 6th Floor, people to be overwhelmed by today’s plethora Montréal, Québec, Canada of opportunities that have opened up with the growth of multilateral international agencies, 2 PROGRAM AGENDA Oct. 29 | Day 3 8:30 am Breakfast Oct. 27 | Day 1 9:00 am Module 5 Speaker: Larry Cooley 8:00 am Registration Topic: Consulting Company Perspectives: 8:50 am Welcoming Remarks and Course Overview Key Trends and Organizational Strategies 9:00 am Module 1 10:30 am Break Speaker: Philip Oxhorn 12:00 pm Lunch with Guest Speaker Topic: Civil Society and Development from the Ground Up Guest Speaker: Kathleen DeBoer Topic: OECD Work in International 10:30 am Break Development 12:00 pm Lunch & Participant Introductions 1:00 pm Module 6 1:00 pm Module 2 Speaker: Chief Shawn Atleo Speaker: Sonia Laszlo Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility: The Topic: Measuring Economic Development and Reciprocal Economy Evaluating Impact 2:30 pm Break 2:30 pm Break 4:00 pm End of Day 1 4:00 pm End of Day 3 Oct. 28 | Day 2 Oct. 30 | Day 4 8:15 am Breakfast 8:30 am Breakfast 8:45 am Module 3 9:00 am Module 7 Speaker: Robert Sauder Speaker: Carol Devine Topic: Overview of the Development Topic: Humanitarian Assistance Landscape: History, Challenges and Changing Architecture 10:30 am Break 10:00 am Break 12:00 pm Lunch at McGill Faculty Club 11:30 am Lunch with Guest Speaker 1:00 pm Module 8 Guest Speaker: Jerry Buckland Speaker: Wanda Bedard Topic: Threats and Opportunities from the Topic: NGO Perspective on International Financialization of Development: The Case of Development Agriculture and Microcredit 2:30 pm Break 12:15 pm Module 4 4:00 pm End of Day 4 Speaker: James Muldoon Topic: Multilateral Perspective on International Development Oct. 31 | Day 5 1:30 pm Break 8:30 am Breakfast 3:00 pm End of Day 2 9:00 am Discussion and Wrap Up 12:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm Presentation of Certificates Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow 3 TEACHING TEAM DAY 1 DAY 2 Philp Oxhorn (PhD, Harvard) is a McGill professor of Robert Sauder is the Director of Development Research Political Science and Founding Director of the Institute in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade for the Study of International Development (ISID). His and Development. He has served in the Canadian areas of expertise include democratic development, Government primarily in the areas of International and civil society, anti-corruption, international indigenous Learning policy. He has a particular interest in Africa. His issues, human rights and governance. Dr. Oxhorn Doctoral studies were focused on educational reform in works extensively on research relating to international Africa. development issues in Latin America and Africa. James P. Muldoon Jr. (MA, Miami) is an independent schol- Sonia Laszlo (PhD, U of T) is one of Canadis Associate ar of international affairs and Vice-Chair of the Mosaic In- Professor of Economics at McGill University. Her main stitute, a Canadian “think & do” tank headquartered in research areas include rural development, access to Toronto. His research and writing fo cus on multilateral markets, and the relationship between income, health diplomacy, international organizations, and global gov- and education in economic development. In addition ernance. Mr. Muldoon’s publications include The New to using traditional analytic tools to understand Dynamics of Multilateralism: Diplomacy, International some of the microeconomic dimensions of economic Organizations, and Global Governance (Westview Press, development at the individual and household level, 2010), Multilateral Diplomacy and the United Nations To- she has been increasingly using experimental and day, second edition (Westview Press, 2005) and The Ar- behavioral methods to shed light on important chitecture of Glob al Governance: An Introduction to the questions about economic decision making. Laszlo Study of International Organizations (Westview Press, has focused most of her research on Latin America 2004). He has been a guest lecturer on diplomacy and and the Caribbean. She is a member the Centre international affairs at universities and research centers Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Organizations around the world and has contributed to major newspa- (CIRANO) and the Grupo de Analysis para el pers and academic journals on contemporary interna- Desarrollo. In 2005 she co founded and has since been tional relations and global issues. He is Vice Chair of the an executive member of the Canadian Development Board of Directors of Oolagen Youth Mental Health. He Economics Study Group, which groups academic and lives in Toron to, Canada, with his wife, Reeta Roy, who policy development economists in Canada. is the President and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation. 4 DAY 3 DAY 4 Larry Cooley (MA, Columbia ; MPA, Princeton) is Founder Carol Devine (MSc, University of London) is a and Pres ident of Management Systems International, an humanitarian professional, researcher, writer and 800-person international consulting firm he founded in access to medicines activist. She is strategic Advisor 1981. A specialist in the fields of strategic management and to The Museum of AIDS in Africa and currently organizational development, he has served as advisor to researches the links between global, circumpolar and cabinet and sub-cabinet officials in 11 US Federal Agencies earth health. She was Program Manager for Médecins and more than a dozen foreign countries. For 11 years, Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada and did humanitarian Larry directed the Implementing Policy Change program affairs for MSF in Rwanda, Congo, Southern Sudan and that assisted governments in 40 countries to manage East Timor. She has consulted for The Stephen Lewis various as pects of policy change. More recent assignments Foundation and AIDS-Free World and is a founding include directing a 7 year effort to help rebuild public board member of Dignitas International. She recently administration in Iraq, and a ten-year program funded by published a cultural history book The Antarctic Book the MacArthur and Packard Foundations to develop and of Cooking and Cleaning about a civilian clean up test new tools for scaling up innovative pilot projects.He project she led to Antarctica with The Russian Antarctic served for 15 years as Chairperson of the Development Expedition in 1995/1996. Man agement Network, and received that organization’s National Award for Training Excellence. Wanda Bedard (MBA, HEC Montréal) Bedard is the founder and owner, since 1991, of a business based in Shawn A-In-Chut Atleo is a Hereditary Chief from the Montréal in the sheet metal manufacturing sector. In Ahousaht First Nation. A-in-chut was first elected in 2009 2006, Wanda and eight other women established the as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. He was 60 million girls Foundation to focus on providing access re- elected receiving an overwhelming majority of support to a quality basic education for the most vulnerable from First Nations across Canada in 2012 for a second and marginalized girls in the developing world.