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Stephen Gallagher is the Program Chair of the Canadian International Council’s Montreal Branch. His areas of research interest include: Canadian Refugee Policy, Comparative Asylum Policy, and Comparative Migration Policy. Dr. Gallagher studies comparative asylum policy and specifically, Canada’s extended refugee policy system and the emerging ‘Common European Asylum System’. These policy areas are analyzed from a migration management perspective. A core theme is that international migratory flows have profound implications for state sovereignty, national security and national identity in Canada […]

Terry Terriff is Arthur J. Child Chair in American Security Policy at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary and Interim Head, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary. He has published articles on military change in the US Marine Corps and European militaries (including NATO military transformation) as well he is researching on change in the US Army and the US military more widely. He is currently writing, with two European colleagues, a monograph […]

Dr. Markus W. Gehring is Lead Counsel for Trade, Investment and Competition Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL). Dr Gehring has published on various aspects of trade and European and climate change law. His other legal research interests focus on the constitutional dimensions of European and international trade law, and sustainable development law at the intersection of international economic, environmental and social development law. Media Experience: Dr. Gehring has media outreach experience and invites media requests […]

Elke Winter is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa. Her research examines the relationship between social inequality, boundary construction, and pluralist inclusion in ethnically diverse societies. Her research research aims to understand the dynamics of unequal group relations, processes of ethnicization, and pluralist nation-building from a historical and comparative perspective. She is particularly interested in the ways in which (previously constructed) ethnic diversity is integrated normatively into discourses and policies of immigration and citizenship. Her new book […]

Helge Dedek is interested in and has published in the areas of (European and German) private law, in particular the law of obligations, (comparative) legal history, comparative law, legal theory, legal education, and Roman law. He is currently on a research leave which he is spending in Bonn, Germany, as a fellow of the Käte Hamburger Advanced Studies Centre “Law as Culture”, Bonn, Germany (http://recht-als-kultur.de).   Research Interests: European legal history; (European) private law; European legal history; Comparative law; German […]

Phil Triadafilopoulos is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where he is Acting Director of the Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies. He conducts research in the areas of immigration and citizenship policy in Europe and North America. He is especially interested in political debates over the accommodation of new religious minorities in industrialized liberal democracies (especially as regards Muslim religious communities in […]

George Ross is ad personam Jean Monnet Chair at the Université de Montréal, iserves as Morris Hillquit Professor emeritus at Brandeis University, and is a faculty associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. His research interests include the political economy of the European Union, EU elites and institutions, European politics and industrial relations, globalization, and social structures. He recently co-edited What`s Left of the Left, a book on European elites and the crisis of European […]

Patrik Marier’s research focuses broadly on the impact of changing demographic structures on reforms to the welfare state in comparative contexts. His earlier work examined the politics of pension reform in a number of countries including Sweden, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Dr. Marier’s current research looks more broadly at the impact of aging populations on a number of public policy fields including education, health care, and labour policy across comparative cases. With Dolores Pushkar (Department of Psychology, Concordia), […]

Owing to his training and experience in business, economics and international relations, Patrick Leblond’s expertise concerns questions relating to global economic governance and international and comparative political economy, more specifically those that deal with international finance and money, international economic integration as well as business-government relations. His regional expertise focuses on Europe and North America. Media Experience: Dr. Leblond has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries Research Interests: International political economy, Global economic […]

Paul Bowles is  Professor of Economics and International Studies , Past-President of the Canadian Society for the Study of International Development and a Honorary Professor at Hebei University, China, as well as an Adjunct Professor of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. He specializes in Globalization, Regionalism, Economic Growth and Development in the Asia-Pacific region, and is also interested in the History of Economic Thought, Currency Issues, and China’s Political Economy. Currently he is researching China’s exchange rate and currency […]

Achim Hurrelmann is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies (CES) at Carleton University. He is cross-appointed to the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS). Professor Hurrelmann’s research focuses on the politics of the European Union, with a particular emphasis on questions of democracy and legitimacy in the EU, multilevel governance, and European integration theory. His work has appeared in journals such as Political Studies, European Political Science Review, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics. Media experience: […]

Armand de Mestral is Emeritus Professor and Jean Monnet Professor of Law at McGill University in Montreal. His current research interest focuses on the law of international economic integration. He has served on WTO and NAFTA dispute settlement and arbitration tribunals and was made member of the Order of Canada in December 2007. Media Experience: Dr. de Mestral has more than 30 years of experience engaging with a wide variety of media especially in TV and Radio and welcomes media […]

Martha O’Brien’s primary research looks at European Union law and international taxation, including tax treaties, EU fundamental freedoms, state aid and tax harmonization within the EU. Professor O’Brien also works on aspects of EU-Canada trade, including: direct investment, trade in services, the free movement of capital, inter-provincial trade in Canada, and comparative federalism. Research Interests: Law of the European Union, International Taxation, Canadian taxation of individuals and corporations, International Investment Law, Taxation and Constitutional Law, Tax Policy, International Trade Law, and CETA

Paul Schure works on financial intermediation, banking, venture capital, microeconomics, firm behaviour, industrial organisation, and European economics. Before joining the University of Victoria, he worked as a consultant in the Chief Economist’s Department at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. Dr. Schure was secretary/treasurer of the European Community Studies Association-Canada (ECSA-C) between 2004 and 2010 and he is co-organizer for the ECSA-C biennial conferences of 2008 and 2010. Research Interests: Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Firm behaviour, Financial Intermediation, and Banking Venture Capital

James Meadowcroft is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He is an expert on environment and sustainable development. Currently, Dr. Meadowcroft is working on a project analyzing how finance ministries can contribute in the search of a green and sustainable development. Research Interests: Environment and Sustainable development

Axel van der Berg’s main empirical research deals with the question whether and how different configurations of social protection and labour market policy undermine or strengthen economic efficiency. His theoretical interests range from the debates about the status of rational choice theory and its cultural-institutional alternatives within the social sciences, flawed attempts to integrate ‘agency’ and ‘structure’ in social science explanatory models, and fads and fashions in contemporary, especially self-declared ‘critical’ social theory. Research Interests: Economic sociology, Welfare states and […]