Venue: Room 507, East 1A Building, Zijingang Campus
Speaker:
Thomas S. Axworthy is a distinguished senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Previously, he served as Senior Policy Advisor and Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In 1984, Dr. Axworthy joined Harvard University as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government.
In 1999, he helped to create the Historica Foundation to improve the teaching and learning of Canadian history, becoming its Executive Director until 2005. To recognize his achievements in heritage education (he initiated the Heritage Minutes), civics, and citizenship, in 2003, he became Chair of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University. In 2009, he became President and CEO of the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation.
He was awarded an honorary LLD from Wilfrid Laurier University (2003) and the Public Affairs Association Award of Distinction on November 26th, 2008 by the Public Affairs Association of Canada.