Welcoming Address
Hon. David R. Peterson, PC, QC, C St J, L. d’H, DU, LLD
The Hon. David R. Peterson is a senior partner and Chairman of the Toronto law firm of Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, where he practices corporate/commercial law. He currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Toronto and as director of St. Michael’s Hospital, the Shaw Festival and the Toronto Community Foundation. In 1975 he was elected as a Member of the Ontario Legislature, and became the leader of the Ontario Liberal party in 1982. He served as Premier of the Province between 1985 and 1990, overseeing a very active period of reform and playing a major role in the country’s constitutional discussions. In 1994 the government of France appointed him a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour of France. In 1995 the International Assembly of French-Speaking Parliamentarians presented him with the Ordre de la Pléiade.Keynote Address
Dr Jillian Clare Cohen
Dr Cohen is the Director of the Comparative Program on Health and Society. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and an advisory board member of the Centre for International Health, at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching are focused on drug access issues for the global poor, the comparative politics of international pharmaceutical policy, and ethics and corruption in pharmaceutical systems. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she worked on pharmaceutical policy for UNICEF, the World Bank and the WHO. She has also been a consultant for a myriad of governments, international organizations and aid agencies on pharmaceutical policy issues, on topics like regulation, corruption, and drug access.Introductory Session: What Is Development? Who Are the Players?
Dr Marketa Evans
Dr. Marketa D. Evans is the Executive Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science. The mission of the Munk Centre for International Studies is to foster innovative, interdisciplinary research on global issues, and to make that research accessible and intelligible through a broad and deep program of teaching and public education. Dr. Evans’ current research focuses on global corporate citizenship and the divergent roles of non-state actors in international development.Deborah Turnbull
Deborah Turnbull is the Vice-President, International Trade and Development, of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters. She is also the Chair of the Canadian and African Business Women's Alliance (CAABWA) and the Past Chair of the Board of Partners in Rural Development/Canadian Hunger Foundation. Ms Turnbull is a Professor of Project Management to undergraduate students in the International Development Studies program at the University of Toronto and is the Chair of the Advisory Council to this program. She has worked on over 100 international development projects in more than 60 countries funded by CIDA and the International Financial Institutions.Dr Jean-Jacques Dethier
Dr Jean-Jaques Dethier is Research Manager, Development Economics, at the World Bank. Dr Dethier holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley (1985) and a law degree from the University of Liège, Belgium (1975). He completed the course requirements for the doctorate in political science at the Free University in Berlin, Germany (1976). He specializes in development economics and has worked at the World Bank, ILO, FAO, IFAD, IFPRI and USAID. His recent books include Growth and Empowerment, Making Development Happen, and Governance, Decentralization and Reform in China, India and Russia.Stephen Millar
Stephen Millar is Chief, International Policy and Institutions Division, Department of Finance, Canada.Foreign Aid Panel
Dr Bernie Frolic
Dr Bernie Frolic is currently Professor Emeritus, Political Science, York University and Senior Researcher, Asian Institute, Munk Centre, University of Toronto. Dr Frolic has been involved with China for over 40 years as a student, professor, diplomat and businessperson. He is the Director of the Asian Business and Management Programme.Dr Albert Berry
Dr Albert Berry is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Research Director of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of Toronto’s Center for International Studies. His main research interests, with focus on Latin America, are labour markets and income distribution, agrarian structure, the economics of small and medium enterprise, and the impacts of and international economic integration. Apart from his academic positions at Yale University, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto, he has worked with the Ford Foundation, the Colombian Planning Commission and the World Bank.Andrew Clark
Mr Andrew Clark is Acting Director, Policy and Strategic Planning Division Multilateral Programs Branch, CIDA. Mr Clark has spent considerable time in Dakar, Senegal working as a Junior Professional Officer with the United Nations Development Programme. He has also worked extensively as a researcher with the North-South Institute in Ottawa, his main research area being Canadian development policy with a particular regional focus on Africa. Mr Clark joined CIDA in 1997 working as a policy analyst in Multilateral Programs Branch dealing mostly with international humanitarian assistance issues. Since then, he has held a variety of positions within the organization and authored reports and policy statements addressing issues such as social development and aid effectiveness.Dr Jean-Jacques Dethier
See above (Introductory Session: What is Development? Who are the Players?).Civil Society Panel
Dr Katharine N. Rankin
Dr. Katharine Rankin is Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Her broad research interests include gender and development, social capital, comparative market regulation, financial restructuring, planning history and theory in South and Southeast Asia. She is currently conducting comparative research on the gender politics of development institutions in Nepal and Vietnam.Dr Robert Weller
Dr Robert Weller is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs. His areas of specialization are in Chinese religion and ritual, social and political change, environment, and anthropological theory. His recent book entitled Alternative Civilities: Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan demonstrates the potential for democracy and civil society to grow out of Chinese cultural roots and authoritarian institutions.Dr Monwar Islam
Dr Monwar Islam is a Senior Program Manager at Plan International Canada, focusing Child Protection and Child Rights Promotion. Mr. Islam provides distance supervision and monitoring of development projects funded by Plan Canada, member of Plan, a humanitarian development organization that works with over 1.3 million children, their families and communities in Africa, Asia, Central and South America. Dr Islam has specific experience in implementing various community-based programs including programs addressing people's participation in health and child protection issues. He has worked for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Save the Children Canada and CARE International for more than 11 years in Mongolia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh.Sara Kemp
Sara Kemp is Program Officer for the Asia Pacific Working Group (APWG). The APWG is a network of Canadian civil society organizations involved in human rights, democracy and development in the region. It brings together over 20 international development and humanitarian NGOs, human rights groups, labour unions, church and solidarity groups. The APWG convened the “Voices for Peace: Challenges for Canadian Engagement in Asia and the Pacific” symposium in December 2004 and, more recently, Ms Kemp facilitated the APWG conference “The Canadian Civil Society Response to the Tsunami Crisis: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned,” May 2006.
Health Care Panel
Dr Joe Wong
Dr Joe Wong is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Director of the Asian Institute and holds a Canada Research Chair in Democratization, Health and Development. His research interests are comparative public policy in Asia, with a specific focus on health policy and politics. His current work includes a comparative study of health biotech development strategies and the intersection of public health, industrial and science policies in Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore.Dr David Zakus
David Zakus is Professor in the Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Director of the Centre for International Health. His research interests include community participation, community based health services, international health, effects of globalization, health system reform and HIV/AIDS in China, Cambodia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe and much of Africa.Dr Tanjina Mirza
Dr. Tanjina Mirza is Director of International Programs for Plan Canada, member of Plan, a humanitarian development organization that works with over 1.3 million children, their families and communities in Africa, Asia, Central and South America. Dr Mirza has worked as a public health researcher with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Canberra. From research she moved into NGO programming in International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she managed a UN health program in North Korea and various health projects throughout Asia. She has also worked as a consultant in Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia and UNICEF Bangladesh.Dr Benjamin Loevinsohn
Dr Loevinsohn is a Lead Public Health Specialist at the World Bank which he joined in 1999. He is the Team Leader for health sector activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan and works on health systems issues through out the South Asia region. He also works on monitoring and evaluation. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr Loevinsohn worked as a Health Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (1993-1999), Advisor to the Philippine Department of Health (1990-1993); Technical Officer, UNICEF, Sudan (1987-1989); and Primary Care Physician, Government of Nicaragua (1984-1985). Dr Loevinsohn did his medical training at McMaster University in Canada and studied Public Health at Harvard.
Concluding Remarks
Dr Marketa Evans
See above (Introductory Session: What is Development? Who are the players?).