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The Honourable Dean Allison M.P. and Chair of the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee, House of Commons, Government of Canada Dean Allison was elected as the first MP for the new riding of Niagara West- Glanbrook on June 28, 2004, and was re-elected with resounding majorities in the 2006 and 2008 general elections. A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University with a degree in Economics, Dean established himself in the Hamilton and Niagara area through accumulating businesses and working for a major franchise organization. He served his community as President of the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital Foundation, as President of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, a Director of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and board member of Junior Achievement in Niagara. Allison is also a founding member of the Dave Thomas Adoption Foundation in Canada and the Belarus’ Children of Chernobyl program that brings children affected by the Chernobyl disaster to Canada. Presently, Dean serves as Chair of both the House of Commons Liaison Committee, and Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. In 2010, he was appointed to the Conservative Caucus Advisory Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Dean has also served as the Chair for the Human Resources Skills Development and Status of Persons with Disabilities as well as having been Vice Chair of the Ontario Conservative Caucus and been on the executive of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Commonwealth Association. Dean is a strong advocate for his constituents and works tirelessly on their behalf. Through his efforts hundreds of individuals and numerous businesses have seen a positive result. He is well respected throughout the communities of Niagara West-Glanbrook and can often be found at many of the various events and meetings throughout the riding. Mr. Andrew Bauer Economic Analyst Revenue Watch Institute Andrew is an economic analyst at the Revenue Watch Institute. Prior to joining, he served on Canada's G7/8 and G-20 teams as an international economist at the Department of Finance, where he provided economic policy advice and participated in the planning and execution of the G8 and G-20 Summits as well as preparatory finance ministerials during Canada's host year. He has held positions in government, nonprofits and the private sector, having worked for Debt Relief International, UNICEF-Canada, Transparency International-Kenya, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ-Ghana), among others. At Revenue Watch, Andrew focuses on economic technical assistance and research to improve natural resource revenue management. His work includes advising governments and civil society on macroeconomic management, governance and accountability mechanisms, and local content in the extractives. Andrew holds an M.Sc. in Economics for Development from Oxford University, where he won a thesis distinction for his work on the monetary transmission mechanism in Tanzania. He also received a B.A. in Economics and International Development Studies from McGill University. Never at rest, Andrew still likes to go home for a regular dose of Montreal bagels and to cheer on the Canadiens. Cadman Atta Mills Economic Advisor to the President of Ghana Cadman Atta Mills is the Economic Advisor to the President of Ghana, the Convener of Ghana's Economic Advisory Council, a member of the Board of Directors of the Ghana National Petroleum Company, a key institution in Ghana. Previously, Mr. Mills worked in the World Bank for 20 years on international development issues. While in the World Bank, he had taken various positions such as Advisor to the Vice President (Africa Region), Sector Manager for 13 Central and Western African Countries, Resident Representative and Acting Director for Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, Senior Economist in different units, and training officer in the World Bank Institute (WBI). Before joining the Bank, he lectured for 14 years in the United Nation's African Institute for Development and Planning (IDEP). Mr. Mills graduated from Brandeis University in 1967 in Economics, and got his Ph.D (economics) from Boston College in 1972. Mr. Mills has many publications, primarily within the context of IDEP and the WBI. He has also been very active in the development debate in Africa, on topics like Structural Adjustment, Trade and Competitiveness, and Socio-Economic Indicators. He specializes in the Political-Economy of Policy Reform and in Macroeconomic Policy Analysis. Fantu Cheru Senior Research Fellow Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden Research Director from 2007-2011 and Emeritus Professor of African and Development Studies at American University in Washington, DC. Previously, Dr. Cheru served as a member of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Panel on Mobilizing International Support for the New Partnership for African Development (2005-2007) as well as Convener of the Global Economic Agenda Track of the Helsinki Process on Globalization and Democracy, a joint initiative of the Governments of Finland and Tanzania. Dr. Cheru also served as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Foreign Debt and Structural Adjustment for the UN Commission for Human Rights in Geneva from 1998-2001. In addition, Dr. Cheru has served both as an advisor and consultant to a number of governments and donor institutions including the UN Economic Commission for Africa, UNDP, UN-Habitat, SIDA, DANIDA, NORAD, among others. Mr. Jacobus Kamfer (Jakkie) Cilliers Executive Director The Institute for Security Studies Dr. Jacobus Kamfer (Jakkie) Cilliers is the Executive Director of the Institute for Security Studies. He has a B. Mil (B.A.) from the University of Stellenbosch and a Hons. B.A., M.A. (cum laude) and DLitt et Phil from the University of South Africa (UNISA). Awards include the Bronze Medal from the South African Society for the Advancement of Science and the H Bradlow Research Bursary. He was born in Stellenbosch, South Africa on 16th April 1956. Dr Cilliers co- founded the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in 1990 and played an important role in the transformation of the South African armed forces and the institution of civilian control over the military in the period 1990 to 1996. At present most of Dr Cilliers` interests relate to the emerging security architecture in Africa as reflected in the developments under the banner of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union as well as issues around African futures. Dr Cilliers has presented numerous papers at conferences and seminars and published a number of books on various matters relating to peace and security in Africa and serves on the editorial boards of the African Security Review and the South African Journal of International Affairs. He is a regular commentator on local and international radio and television and has attended a large number of international conferences. He is an Extraordinary Professor in the Centre of Human Rights and the Department of Political Sciences, Faculty Humanities at the University of Pretoria. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Switzerland and as a member of the board of advisers of the Center on International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University, New York. Jennifer Clapp Professor of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo Jennifer Clapp is a Faculty of Environment Chair in Global Environmental Governance, Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Environment, and Professor in the Environment and Resource Studies Department at the University of Waterloo. She is author of a number of books and articles on themes related to the interface between the global economy food and hunger, and the global environment. She has just completed a term as as co-editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics (2008-2012). Her current research focuses on the financialization of food and the incorporation of environmental sustainability norms into global food security governance. Her most recent books include Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (Cornell University Press, 2012), Food (Polity, 2012), Paths to a Green World: the Political Economy of the Global Environment, 2nd edition (co-authored with Peter Dauvergne, MIT Press, 2011), The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities (co-edited with Marc Cohen, WLU Press, 2009), and Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (co- edited with Doris Fuchs, MIT Press, 2009). Right Honourable Joe Clark, PC CC Former Canadian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Joe Clark is a former Canadian Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Minister of Constitutional Affairs, as well as Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, and National Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The author of “Canada: A Nation Too Good to Lose”, Mr. Clark was a founding member of the Pacific Council for International Policy and served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Cyprus. Currently, he is President of Joe Clark and Associates Ltd, a professor in the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University and vice-chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation. Mr. Clark serves on the boards of Triton Logging Inc, Globe Scan Inc, Pearson College of the Pacific, and on the advisory boards of Meridiam Infrastructure, Save The Children Canada, and SOS Children’s Villages Canada, and is active in other Canadian and international organizations. He was the founding chairman of the Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, which co-ordinated the Commonwealth campaign against apartheid. He co-founded the underwater forestry company CSRD in Ghana, and has led international Election Observation teams in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and Lebanon. Mr. Clark is a Companion of the Order of Canada and the first recipient of the Vimy Award. As Minister of Constitutional Affairs in Canada, Mr. Clark led the negotiation of the Charlottetown Accord, which achieved unanimous agreement on major constitutional changes in Canada’s federal government.

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