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Rita Abrahamsen
Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
PROFILEProfessor, School of Political Studies, and Coordinator, International Political Economy Network
PROFILEProfessor, School of Political Studies & Research Chair in Taiwan Studies, University of Ottawa
PROFILEDirector, Observatoire de la politique et la sécurité de l’Arctique (OPSA). Lecturer, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa.
PROFILEAssociate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
PROFILEPaul Meyer is Adjunct Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University, a Fellow of the Outer Space Institute, a Director of the Canadian Pugwash Group and a Senior Advisor to ICT4Peace. Prior to assuming his current appointments in 2011, Mr. Meyer had a 35-year career with the Canadian Foreign Service. Mr. Meyer had diplomatic assignments in Oslo, Moscow, Brussels (NATO), Washington, Tokyo and from 2003-2007 in Geneva where he served as Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and to the Conference on Disarmament. At the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade’s HQ, Meyer held a variety of positions including Director General for International Security (1998-2001) and Director General for Security and Intelligence (2007-2010). Throughout his work, Meyer has sought to promote international security by means of creative diplomacy. He currently is teaching a course on diplomacy at SFU’s School for International Studies and is engaged in research and writing on issues of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, outer space security and international cyber security. Paul Meyer became a member of the Canadian Pugwash Group in 2011 and has served as CPG’s Vice-Chair (2013-17) and Chair (2017 -2021).
PROFILEProfessor John Packer is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) at the University of Ottawa. He was appointed the Inaugural Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution in April 2018.
PROFILEBenjamin Zyla, Ph.D. teaches peace and conflict studies at the University of Ottawa where he directs the ‘Peacebuilding and Local Knowledge Network (PLKN) and the Gender, Peace, and Development Research Network (GPD-RN) (as co-director).
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