public sector leadership and governance - Faculty of Social Sciences

University of Ottawa
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Centre on Public Management and Policy
Prospectus for Certificate Program in
Public Sector Leadership and
Governance
Odell House
Odell House, a restored
19 th century residence,
is home to the University of
Ottawa’s Centre on Public
Management
and Policy, part of the
Graduate School of
Public and International
Affairs. The Centre offers
professional development
programs, undertakes
research and fosters candid
conversations focused
on improving public
management in Canada.
Cohort VI: September 2012 to June 2014
Today, more than ever, Canada needs strong public sector leadership to meet the challenges
of governance in a constantly changing society and economy, driven by globalisation and
technological advances. The public sector leaders of tomorrow will need greater depth and breadth
of experience and perspective, and more diverse skill sets. They will be called upon to shape
transformative change in both what government does and how it does it, in a context of severe
fiscal constraints; as well, rising public expectations about accountability and transparency will
demand greater effectiveness and efficiency in the design and delivery of programs and services.

In September 2012, up to 24 participants will begin a 20-month journey of learning and
discovery at the University of Ottawa’s Odell House, home of the Centre on Public Management
and Policy. By the time they receive their Certificate in Public Sector Leadership and Governance
in June 2014, participants will have:
• gained a broad understanding of fundamental
principles, sound practices and current issues and
challenges in public management and policy
• met with a wide cross-section of top practitioners
and thought leaders from the federal public service
and other public sector organizations, as well as the
worlds of politics, business, civil society, and the
universities, for candid dialogue on their experience
and lessons learned;
• compared perspectives with counterparts and
experts across Canada and abroad through three
one-week study tours;
• probed and deepened their mastery of the personal
and interpersonal dimensions of high-level
leadership; and
• forged life-long bonds of trust and friendship with
first-rate colleagues.
The Certificate Program is targeted to exceptional middlelevel
executives. While participants are primarily from the federal
public service, executives from Crown corporations, provincial or
municipal public services, or the private sector will also benefit
from the Program, and will enrich its value for all participants.
The Certificate Program is organized into three modules:
public sector management; governance; and Canada in the world.
Each module includes a particular emphasis on assessing evidence
in shaping advice and action.
We begin with a late August Orientation Session to help
participants transition into the program, learn about expectations
and begin to form relationships with colleagues. A four-day
October boot camp follows, divided into two 2-day sessions on
basic concepts and principles of Canadian public management
and governance. This will ensure that everyone shares a common
base of knowledge on which to build more sophisticated concepts
and debates. This introductory session will also include exercises to
clarify each participant’s leadership practice as a basis for setting
individual development goals.
The Program concerns itself throughout with the
key areas of executive competencies identified
by the federal Treasury Board Secretariat and
the Public Service Commission of Canada :
values and ethics, strategic thinking, engagement,
and management excellence. The aim is to assist
participants to prepare themselves to assume greater
responsibility at the levels of Assistant Deputy
Minister or Director General, or their equivalents.

The time commitment for participants is about three
days per month over the Program’s 20 months, as
follows:
• Four sessions (normally one and one-half days each in
duration) for each of the three five-month modules at Odell
House plus five sessions during the boot camp and wrap-up
stages. This totals at least 25 days.
• A one-week study tour, either in Canada or abroad, during
each module.
• Other events (such as action learning sessions) not exceeding
10 days in total.
• About one additional day per month for reading and
assignments.
We request that nominations be
submitted by July 30, 2012 so that the
participants and Program staff have
the opportunity to meet during the
summer and prepare for the Program
launch in the autumn.
The Program modules are offered bilingually in English and French,
with participants and presenters alike speaking or writing in the official
language of their choice.
The two-year cost for the Program is $32,000, payable in two installments of
$16,000 by April 2013 and April 2014. Travel costs are paid by the sponsoring
organization. The three study tours are likely to cost between $7,000 and
$10,000 in total.
To facilitate the participation of qualified candidates residing outside the
National Capital Region (NCR), the Program will reimburse normal travel costs
of up to $10,000 for attendance at the regular sessions in Ottawa.
Participants from the federal public service are normally recommended by
their relevant Deputy Minister or Assistant Deputy Minister from among their
most promising EX 3 and EX 2 leaders. Participants from provincial/territorial
administrations or the private or non-profit sectors are usually recommended
by the equivalent appropriate senior official in their organization.
APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO:
James Lahey
Director, Centre on Public Management
and Policy
University of Ottawa
Odell House, 180 Waller Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9B9
Tel: 613 562-5800, Ext. 3755
E-mail: james.lahey@uOttawa.ca
QUESTIONS MAY ALSO BE DIRECTED TO
613-562-5800 FOR:
• Anna Jahn Ext. 3889
• John McKennirey Ext. 3876
• Reilly Kaunisviita Ext. 3879

Meeting the Need for
Public Sector Executive Development
Public Management in the Modern State
Canada, as every advanced nation, depends importantly on
government policies, programs and services for the effective
functioning of its economy and society. While there are always
differences of view and shifting policies regarding the nature and
extent of government activities, these differences play out within
a broad scope of responsibilities
Few senior managers which is common to all advanced
nations: from national defence
will take up their roles and security to education and the
with all the requisite social safety nets; from financial
and economic regulation to
knowledge and skills. administration of justice.
To deliver on these essential functions, governments in
the modern state face very significant organizational and
management challenges. Meeting these challenges falls to the
senior ranks of the public service; and their ability to do so has a
critical impact on a nation’s overall performance.
Management Cadre Challenges Today
The Canadian government (like most western governments) is
facing difficult fiscal constraints due to the global financial crisis
which must be met by substantial spending reductions and
controls on programs and administration. This is coupled with
the policy challenge to promote economic growth in a context of
global and domestic deficit and debt reduction.
The coming generation of federal government executives must
meet these challenges while they master the demands of new jobs
at higher levels. As experienced senior managers retire in large
numbers, there is a need for many managers to assume senior
positions today without the benefit of a wide experience which
would have been more common for the previous generation.
The demographic question is only part of even wider challenges
faced by public sector executives today. Rapid and far reaching
changes in the structure of the national and global economies,
in technology and business practices, in demography and
immigration, and in shifting global politics and centres of
power, must be met by changes in what governments do and
how they operate.
As managers move to senior executive positions, they must
deal with a much broader range of realities, often beyond their
previous experience: relations with the political level and with
Parliament, national fiscal and financial affairs, the functioning
of Cabinet, the legislative process, international relations, large
scale IT systems, and people management involving hundreds
and thousands rather than small teams. They must also
understand the interrelationships between their organization
and the government as a whole, involving many other
departments and agencies with different areas of
specialization, other levels of government, and other
countries and international organizations, as well as
the private sector.
Few senior managers will take up their roles with all
the requisite knowledge and skills. Most will need to
fill in more than one gap in their formation. All will
need to learn how to think and operate on a horizontal
plane, looking at the immediate and the long term
simultaneously, and making “strategic” more than a
buzz word. Executives must continue to learn and
grow even more intensively in senior positions than
they did on the way up.

Background to the Certificate Program
In January 2007, the University of Ottawa launched its Certificate
Program in Public Sector Leadership and Governance. The Program
was designed specifically to address these challenges. Since then,
more than 100 participants in five cohorts have
undertaken the Program. Further cohorts will be
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launched each autumn.
Program Objectives
The Program has ambitious objectives, not
only in terms of imparting new knowledge,
but in developing new skills, providing new
tools, and, ultimately, promoting a process of
personal growth aimed at realizing the leadership
potential of each participant. The Program aims
to accelerate the development of promising
practitioners in preparation for assuming greater
responsibilities in the coming years.
Specifically, our goals are:
• To deepen participants’ understanding of leading thought and
practice in the areas of public sector management, governance,
and Canada in the world, paying attention throughout to the
sound use of evidence in determining advice and action;
• To broaden participants’ exposure to diverse ways of thinking
and acting as leaders in the increasingly accountable, networked
and global environment in which they must operate;
and Policy itself is housed in historic Odell House ideally suited
for informal discussion (under the “Chatham House rule”
intended to encourage direct and frank conversation and ensure
confidentiality). Participants work in groups of up to 24 who stay
together for the 20 month duration of the Program.
Whether a seasoned or newly-minted executive, this Program delivers on its
promise. One of its many attractive features is learning from experts and senior
leaders, both past and present. Equally beneficial is the building of relationships
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Veronica McGuire, Executive Director
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
participant in cohort IV
and the sharing of insights with peers from across the public service.
The Program uses a variety of approaches and methods:
• personal contact and dialogue with outstanding leaders in
government, politics, the media, the private sector and academe
(see Annex A for examples from the past three years);
• exercises that challenge the participants to learn and practice new
skills and knowledge on their own;
• debate and dialogue within the group as participants learn to learn
from each other;
• To develop participants’ leadership practice, including their
capacity for self-directed and group learning, problem-solving,
and personal resilience; and
• To connect participants across all the Cohorts, and with thought
leaders in the University and the wider world.
Program Design
A. Approaches and Methods
We take experienced senior mangers out of their hectic offices
for a day and a half per month, and place them in the neutral
space of the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs. The Centre for Public Management
• travel and first-hand contact with people, cultures and institutions
that play an important role in the world around us;
• readings on a wide range of topics and exposure to new sources of
information; and
• coaching and focusing on the personal side of leadership.
Perhaps the most important design feature of the Program is the
act of sharing the learning journey with fellow travelers. The group
dynamics within each cohort contribute enormously to the overall
impact of the executive development experience. The different
background, expertise and perspectives which each participant
brings, as well as the different organizations from which they come,
their different management styles and experience within the public
service, become critical sources of mutual learning and support.

Participants also gain an invaluable asset in the bonds of trust and
open communication that form among a group of colleagues from
across the breadth of the system and which will continue long
after their graduation and enrich their careers.
B. Orientation and Boot camp
The program is a challenging 20-month journey in personal
change and growth. We have learned that it is important to
take care to orient the participants to the program. Thus, the
Program’s first event in late August is an Orientation session
similar in format to the learning sessions to come. Participants
are welcomed, introduced to each other, briefed on the program
and invited to reflect on and work with the concept of a personal
leadership practice as a means to assess and track their own
development.
Because participants come to the Program
with widely varying familiarity with
the basics of governance and public
management in Canada, a four-day boot
camp is offered in two 2-day sessions in
October before participants begin the first
module. These focused sessions will provide
an overview of Parliament, Cabinet, the
roles and relations between the federal and
provincial/ territorial governments, the role
of the courts, machinery of government, the
policy process, legislation and regulations,
setting the fiscal plan, determining
expenditure budgets, public accounts and
accountability. This session will also provide
participants with the opportunity to receive
feedback on their first self-assessment of
their leadership practice, and to begin to set
individual and group development goals for
the Program.
C. Modules and Themes
The Program is organized into three modules:
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One: Public Sector Management (November 2012 to April
2013) – A synthesis of policy intent and sound practice
in the fundamental public management areas of people
management, financial management, management
of information and technology, values and ethics, and
accountability.
Two: Governance (May to December 2013) – Topics covered
include the political context of democratic governance,
relations between political figures and senior public
servants, the importance of public trust, how Cabinet
decision-making works, the roles of central agencies,
federal-provincial/territorial relations, and comparisons with
governance in provinces, private sector corporations and
not-for-profit organizations.
Three: Canada in the World (January to May 2014) – A
probing consideration of Canada’s place in the world and
the impact of international realities on public management
and leadership, looking in turn at Canada’s place in North
America, its relations with Asia, Europe and Latin America, its
multilateral roles, defense, global security, and international
development.
The program is an enriching experience, combining a nicely balanced combination of practical
and theoretical elements that allowed me to better understand the challenges facing executives
in the Federal Public Service in the coming years, as well as to help me deal with the day-today
issues that confront all of us in this turbulent environment. An unexpected benefit was
going on this journey in a group that developed quickly into a cohesive and supportive network
that will outlive the formal course.
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Tony Giles, Director General
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
participant in cohort IV
Two crosscutting themes are worked into each of the modules
to deepen participants’ appreciation of the themes themselves
and their relevance in the context of the module topics. These
themes are:
• Personal and Leadership Development – Successful leadership
has a critical emotional and interpersonal dimension. We
emphasize the idea of developing participants’ leadership
practice – that set of experience, competencies, ethos and
energy that defines them as leaders. Thus the Program has
participants taking part in several “action learning” sessions
during which they will have the opportunity to probe pressing
management or leadership challenges, in the roles of both

presenter and advisor, under the supervision of experienced
coaches. Individual coaching (up to six hours per participant)
will also be offered. This aspect allows participants to
concentrate on identifying individual areas for improvement as
leaders, and on developing strategies for making progress.
• Sound Use of Evidence – An examination of the nature of
evidence and the practice of risk management in formulating
policy and applying legislation, including the interplay of policy
analysis, research, public opinion, and political leadership.
Applications in the fields of science and regulation, economic
and social policy, and intelligence will be explored.
For Cohort VI, each module will include four group sessions
covering a Wednesday evening and all day Thursday, three to four
weeks apart (except during the month of a study tour).
D. Study Tours
Complementing each module is a one-week study tour (plus travel
time). For the first module, there will be a visit to London and
another European capital in April 2013 to explore approaches to
redesigning public services and the public service in the UK and
another European country. Destinations for modules two and
three will focus on Canada (likely the Alberta oil sands or Windsor/
Detroit border and the Port of Vancouver), and major multilateral
institutions such as the UN, IMF and World Bank and think tanks on
international affairs (located in Washington and New York).
Program Requirements
The Program is designed to inspire and develop exceptional
mid-career public service executives, or executives from other
sectors to take on expanded leadership roles in the future.
Effective leaders are continuous learners. Accordingly, the Program
demands active engagement of the participants to:
• prepare by completing assigned readings;
• participate actively in the sessions, action learning, and the
study tours;
• share responsibility for group presentations in connection with
study tours;
• maintain a learning journal throughout the Program; and
• submit an original individual case study (about 10 to 15 pages
in length) by early 2014, on a topic agreed with the Program
Director – participants will be expected to select the topic early
in the Program and to prepare the paper in stages for review and
feedback. Written work and group presentations will be shared
with all participants.
The Program culminates in a Certificate conferred by the Graduate
School of Public and International Affairs. It does not result in
formal academic credits.
E. Wrap up
The Certificate Program concludes with two final
sessions designed to review and consolidate the
learnings of the program, from all three modules,
the cross-cutting themes, the personal and group
coaching, and reflections on the participants’
developing leadership practices. In addition we
will explore how these learnings can be applied
in the workplace through group discussion of a
number of Case Studies prepared by participants
during the latter part of the Program based on
actual management experiences.

Program Staff
James Lahey – Jim has overall responsibility for
the Certificate Program. He is a Visiting Research
Professor at the University of Ottawa, and
Director of the Centre on Public Management
and Policy. From 1973 until early 2009, Jim
worked in the federal public service. Over
his last ten years in government, Jim served
successively as Associate Deputy Minister
in Human Resources Development Canada,
Associate Secretary in the Treasury Board
Secretariat, Associate Deputy Minister in Indian
and Northern Affairs, and Deputy Secretary
to the Cabinet (Public Service Renewal) in the
Privy Council Office. Jim is also Chair of the
Departmental Audit Committee at Agriculture
and Agri-Food Canada, and a member of the
National Statistics Council.
David Zussman – David is currently
Director of the Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs. He has held the
Jarislowsky Chair in Public Sector Management
at the University of Ottawa since 2005. He
served as President of the Public Policy Forum
(1995 to 2003), Executive Vice President of
Ekos Research (2003 to 2005), Dean of the
Faculty of Management at the University of
Ottawa (1988 to 1992), and Assistant Secretary
to the Cabinet (Machinery) at the Privy Council
Office (1994 to 1995).
John McKennirey – John is a Senior Fellow
working closely with Jim on designing and
delivering the Certificate Program. He left the
federal public service in 2009 after serving
as Assistant Deputy Minister for Lands and
Economic Development in Indian and Northern
Affairs (INAC), and for Labour and Homelessness
in Human Resources Development Canada
(HRDC). In addition to various executive
positions in Foreign Affairs and International
Trade, Canada Revenue Agency, HRDC and
INAC, John served four years as first Executive
Director of the NAFTA Labor Commission based
in Dallas, Texas.
Program Resources
Anna Jahn – Anna is the Manager for the
Certificate Program and responsible for other
courses at the Centre on Public Management
and Policy. She worked as Marketing and
Communication Officer at the Faculty of
Social Science at the University of Ottawa.
Before joining the University, Anna was a
Program Manager at The European School
of Management and Technology in Berlin,
Germany.
Reilly Kaunisviita – Reilly is the Administrative
Assistant at the Centre on Public Management
and Policy. She recently graduated with her
Bachelor’s degree from the University of
Ottawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences, in Public
Administration. She has been working at the
Centre since July 2008.
The Program invites current and former distinguished senior
federal officials and other experts to address the participants.
We also call on professors and senior fellows associated with the
University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International
Affairs (GSPIA), and other parts of the University. Annex A provides
examples of the exceptional speakers who have shared their
insights with Cohorts II, III, IV and V over the past three years.
The Certificate Program is based at Odell House, a restored
nineteenth century residence located at 180 Waller Street, close
to the Rideau Canal and the new Social Sciences Building (120
University Avenue), which houses the Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs. Program events will take place mainly at
Odell House.
The Program provides a dedicated website where participants
can access Program agendas and presentations, as well as reading
materials and other resources.

How to Apply
Prospective participants should normally meet the following criteria:
• Currently occupy a leadership role in the federal public service (EX-3
and EX-2 levels), or an equivalent position in a provincial or municipal
government, or the private or not-for-profit sectors;
• Feel a strong desire to assume a greater leadership role in the Canadian
public sector (or related functions);
• Have a degree from a recognized degree-granting institution in Canada
or abroad;
• Be recommended by the relevant Deputy Minister, or Assistant Deputy
Minister, or equivalent;
• Be willing to commit to complete the Program assignments, attend the
sessions, and participate actively; and
• Be functionally bilingual, especially with a reasonable level of oral
comprehension of both English and French.
The two-year cost for the Program is $32,000 which covers tuition,
instructional materials, on-site meals for Ottawa sessions, and coaching.
Sponsoring organizations also need to cover participants’ travel and
accommodation costs for the study tours. Participants not based in the
National Capital Region will be responsible for similar costs when attending
the regular sessions, but will be assisted by reimbursement of normal travel
and accommodation costs of up to $10,000.
APPLICATIONS SHOULD INCLUDE:
• a letter explaining the
applicant’s reasons for wishing
to participate in the Program,
• a letter of support from the
relevant Deputy Minister or
Assistant Deputy Minister, or
equivalent where appropriate,
• two other letters of reference,
• a current curriculum vitae, and
• details of previous postsecondary
degrees or courses.
We request that applications for
Cohort VI (beginning in September
2012) be submitted by July 30, 2012.

Annex A
Examples of Distinguished Leaders and Scholars that
have addressed Cohorts II, III, IV or V between September 2009 and May 2012
Distinguished Leaders
Since September 2009, these have included:
• Michael Adams – Founding President, Environics Research
• William Baker – Deputy Minister, Public Safety Canada (retired)
• David Beatty – Conway Professor of Strategy, Rotman School of
Business, University of Toronto; formerly Founding Managing
Director, Canadian Coalition for Good Governance
• Marie Bernard-Meunier – formerly Canadian Ambassador to the
Netherlands and then to Germany
• Margaret Biggs – President, Canadian International
Development Agency
• Margaret Bloodworth- former senior public servant who was
most recently Associate Secretary to the Cabinet and National
Security Advisor to the Prime Minister (2006-2008).
• Mel Cappe – President, Institute for Research in Public Policy
(retired); formerly Secretary to the Cabinet and Clerk of the Privy
Council
• Claude Carrière – Associate Deputy Minister, Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada
• Susan Cartwright – Special Advisor to the Privy Council Office,
Public Service Modernization Act (retired)
• Janice Charette – Associate Secretary to the Cabinet and Deputy
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs; formerly Deputy Minister
of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
• Ian Clark – Professor, School of Public Policy and Governance,
University of Toronto
• Andrew Cohen – Assistant Professor, Carleton University School
of Journalism and Communication, and journalist
• Keith Coulter – formerly Commissioner of Corrections
• Claire Dansereau – Deputy Minister, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• Michelle D’Auray – Secretary of the Treasury Board
• Richard Dicerni – Deputy Minister, Industry Canada
• Christine Donoghue – Executive Director, Policy Horizons
Canada, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
• Cassie Doyle – Consul General of Canada, San Francisco; formerly
Deputy Minister, Natural Resources Canada
• Don Drummond – Matthews Fellow and Distinguished Visiting
Scholar, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University; formerly
Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial
Group
• Richard Fadden – Director, Canadian Security Intelligence
Service
• Graham Flack – Associate Deputy Minister, Public Safety Canada
• Liseanne Forand – President, Shared Services Canada
• Daniel Gagnier – Consultations Daniel Gagnier; formerly Chief of
Staff to the Premier of Quebec
• Dan Gardner – Journalist, Author, and Lecturer
• Ian Glen – Chair of the Board, Canadian Air Transportation
Security Agency; formerly Chairman, National Parole Board
• John Graham – Patterson Creek Consulting; formerly Senior
Associate, Institute on Governance
• Ian Green – formerly Deputy Minister, Health Canada
• François Guimont – Deputy Minister, Public Works and
Government Services Canada
• Jim Judd – formerly Director, Canadian Security Intelligence
Service
• André Juneau – Director, Institute of Intergovernmental Affairs,
Queen’s University; formerly Deputy Minister, Infrastructure
Canada
• Michael Keenan – Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy at
Environment Canada
• Avrim Lazar – formerly President, Canadian Forest Products
Association
• Dr. Les Levin – Head, Medical Advisory Secretariat, Health Quality
Ontario
• Kevin Lynch – Vice-Chair, BMO Financial Group; formerly
Secretary to the Cabinet and Clerk of the Privy Council

• Kevin Malone – formerly Cabinet Secretary, Government of New
Brunswick
• Richard Manicom – Consultant in IT Project Governance
• Bill Matthews – Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management
Sector, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
• Jim Mitchell – Founding Partner, Sussex Circle
• Marie-Lucie Morin – Executive Director for Canada, World Bank;
formerly National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and
Associate Secretary to the Cabinet
• Michael Nelson – Audit Committee Chair, Office of the Public
Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada
• William Pentney – Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, Priorities
and Plans, Privy Council Office
• Dan Perrins – Executive-in-Residence, Johnson-Shoyama School
of Public Policy, University of Regina; formerly Cabinet Secretary,
Government of Saskatchewan
• William Pristanski – Principal, Prospectus Associates
• Morris Rosenberg – Deputy Minister, Foreign Affairs and
International Trade
• Tim Sargent – Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Economic
and Regional Development Policy, Privy Council Office
• Sheridan Scott – Senior Partner, Bennett Jones LLP; formerly
Commissioner, Competition Bureau
• Ian Shugart – Deputy Minister, Human Resources and Skills
Development Canada
• Jeffrey Simpson – Globe and Mail columnist and noted author,
as well as Senior Fellow at the University of Ottawa Graduate
School of Public and International Affairs
• John Sims – formerly Deputy Minister, Justice Canada and
Deputy Attorney General
• Monte Solberg – Senior Advisor, Fleishman-Hillard; formerly
Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
• Carole Swan – formerly President, Canadian Food Inspection
Agency
• John Weekes – Senior Business Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP;
formerly Canadian Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
• Michael Wernick – Deputy Minister, Aboriginal Affairs and
Northern Development Canada
• Jodi White – Senior Fellow at the Norman Patterson School of
International Affairs at Carleton University; formerly President,
Public Policy Forum
• John Wiersema – Formerly Deputy Auditor General of Canada
• Joe Wild – Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Machinery of
Government, Privy Council Office
• Ian Wilson – formerly Librarian and Archivist of Canada
• Yuen Pau Woo – President and CEO, Asia-Pacific Foundation of
Canada
• Wayne Wouters – Secretary to the Cabinet and Clerk of the Privy
Council
• Robert Wright – formerly Canadian Ambassador to Japan and
then to China
• Neil Yeates – Deputy Minister, Citizenship and Immigration
Canada
University of Ottawa Professors and Senior
Fellows
The following have shared their knowledge and experience with
participants:
• Robert Asselin – Robert is Assistant Director of the GSPIA. Prior
to that, he held several senior governmental positions such as
Advisor and Speechwriter to the Prime Minister of Canada, Policy
Advisor to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, as well as
Chief of Staff to the Associate Minister of National Defence.
• Gordon Betcherman - Gordon Betcherman is Professor in the
School of International Development and Global Studies as
well as the GSPIA. Dr. Betcherman joined the University of
Ottawa after 11 years at the World Bank, most recently as Sector
Manager and Lead Economist in the Human Development
Sector, Europe and Central Asia Region.
• Patrick Fafard – An Assistant Professor at the GSPIA, Patrick has
worked as Director General of Strategic Policy and Research at
the federal Department of Intergovernmental Affairs, and in the
Saskatchewan Department of Health.
• Robert Fowler – Robert Fowler has had a distinguished career
as a Canadian diplomat and public servant. In addition to
having served as Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations
(1995-2000) and to Italy (2000-2006), he also served as foreign

policy advisor to three Prime Ministers. He was also the Deputy
Minister of National Defence (1989-1995) and the Prime
Minister’s Personal Representative for Africa.
• Richard French – Richard holds the CN Paul M. Tellier Chair
on Business and Public Policy at the GSPIA. Richard French
previously served as vice-chairman (telecommunications) of the
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
(CRTC). He taught at McGill University before entering provincial
politics in Quebec, which lead him to serve as a Member of the
National Assembly as well as Minister of Communications. He
also worked in the private sector, serving as vice-president of
Bell Canada and CEO of Tata Communications in India.
• Greg Fyffe – A Senior Fellow at the GSPIA, Greg served in several
Assistant Deputy Minister roles in the federal government as
well as Chief of Staff to various federal Ministers. Prior to his
retirement in 2008, Greg was Assistant Secretary, Intelligence
Assessment at the Privy Council Office.
• Ralph Heintzman – An Adjunct Research Professor at the GSPIA,
Ralph served in the federal public service for over thirty years,
including positions as Assistant Secretary at the Treasury Board
Secretariat. In 2006, he was awarded the Vanier Medal by the
Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
• Luc Juillet – Luc is Jean-Luc Pépin Research Chair on Canadian
Government. He recently co-authored a book on the merit
principle in the public service, Defending a Contested Ideal: Merit
and the Public Service Commission 1908-2008.
• Michael Kergin – Michael, also a Senior Fellow at the GSPIA
and long-serving leader in the Canadian Foreign Service, was
Ambassador to the United States from 2000 to 2005, and Foreign
Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister. He is currently Special
Advisor on Border Management to the Premier of Ontario.
• André Laliberté - André is a Professor at the School of Political
Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is a graduate of UQAM
(1991), and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the
University of British Columbia in 1999. André has written on the
issue of identity and the relations between state and religion in
the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.
• Claude Laverdure – During his long career in the Canadian
Foreign Service, Claude served as Ambassador to France,
Belgium and Haiti. From 2000 to 2003 he was Foreign Policy
Advisor to the Prime Minister. He is currently a Senior Fellow
at the GSPIA, and Vice-President of the Canadian Ditchley
Foundation.
• Patrick Leblond – Before joining the GSPIA as Assistant Professor,
Patrick was Assistant Professor of international business at HEC
Montréal and Director of the Réseau économie internationale
(REI) at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de
l’Université de Montréal (CERIUM).
• Gilles Paquet – Gilles has spent over forty years as a scholar,
prolific writer, teacher and senior university administrator,
divided more or less equally between the University of Ottawa
and Carleton University. He was President of the Royal Society of
Canada from 2003 to 2005.
• Roland Paris - Roland is holding the University Research Chair
in International Security and Governance at the University
of Ottawa; he is the founding Director of the Centre for
International Policy Studies, and Associate Professor at the
GSPIA. His research interests are in the fields of international
security, international governance and foreign policy.
• Barry Stemshorn – A long-time federal public servant,
most notably in the regulatory field, Barry was Assistant
Deputy Minister for the Environmental Protection Service at
Environment Canada from 2000 to 2006. He is now a Senior
Fellow at the GSPIA.
• Thomas Townsend – Thomas is a Senior Fellow at the GSPIA. He
served for many years as a federal public servant, most notably
as Executive Director of the Policy Research Initiative, and as an
executive in Human Resources and Skills Development Canada,
and in the Correctional Service of Canada.
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