Marc G. Doucet (2011-2012)
Marc G. Doucet is associate professor at Saint Mary’s University where he teaches i n the department of political science. He earned his PhD from the University of Ottawa in 2000. His areas of research have included international relations theory, radical democracy, and th e alter-globalization movement. His current research draws from recent literatur e on biopower and sovereign power in order to examine contemporary forms of international intervention. He is the co-editor of Security and Global Governmentality: Globalization, Governance and the State and has published articles in Security Dialogue; Theory & Event: Contemporary Political Theory; Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, and Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations.
Contact: marc.doucet@smu.ca
Elizabeth Smythe, (2009-2010)
Elizabeth Smythe grew up in Ontario and received her Ph.D from Carleton University. She is a professor of political science at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta where she has taught international relations and comparative politics since 1989. Her publications and research projects have addressed the negotiation of investment agreements at the WTO and the OECD and transnational movements of resistance to these negotiations and their use of information and communication technology. Current research projects include an examination of the significance of the World Social Forum for networks of resistance to trade agreements and the negotiation of international trade rules and standards for food labelling.
Contact: elizabeth.smythe@concordia.ab.ca
David Black (2008-2009)
David Black's current research interests focus on Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa, with emphases on human security, development assistance, multilateral diplomacy and extractive industry investment. He has also written on human rights in Canadian and South African foreign policies, on the role of post-apartheid South Africa in Africa, and on Sport and World Politics. Among his recent publications are an edited section of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (XXVIII, 2007) on 'Canadian Aid Policy in the new Millennium: Paradoxes and Tensions'; A Decade of Human Security: Global Governance and New Multilateralisms, co-edited with Sandra MacLean and Timothy Shaw (Ashgate 2006), and a Special Issue of Third World Quarterly (Vol. 25, 2004) on 'Global Games', co-edited with Janis van der Westhuizen. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) and the Executive Council of the Canadian Consortium on Human Security (CCHS). From 1999-2006 and 2007-8 he was seconded to the Department of International Development Studies as Program Coordinator and Department Chair.
Contact: blackd@dal.ca
Nelson Michaud (2007-2008)
(Ph.D., Laval; post-doctoral studies, Dalhousie University) has been appointed as Director (Teaching and Research) at the École nationale d'administration publique in September 2006. He is full professor of political science and international relations, and was Director of research groups at his School. He has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, chapters in collective works, encyclopaedia articles as well as a number of books, including co-edition with Kim Richard Nossal, Pat James, and Marc O'Reilly. He appears regularly as a speaker and expert commentator in Quebec, Canada, the United States, and Europe. His works and many publications lead him to receive a number of prestigious research grants and, in 2005, the Prix d'excellence en recherche for the entire Université du Québec network, and in 2004, the Prix d'excellence en recherche from his institution. He is member of the boards of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His research interests are in the fields of decision-making processes, and in particular foreign policy decision-making, the international relations of federated entities, the dynamics of bureaucratic policy, the media and foreign policy and political/administrative institutions
(Ph.D., Laval; études post-doctorales, Dalhousie University) est directeur de l'Enseignement et de la recherche à l'École nationale d'administration publique depuis septembre 2006. Professeur titulaire, il y a été auparavant directeur de groupes de recherche. Auteur prolifique, il a publié plusieurs articles dans des revues arbitrées et ses textes ont aussi paru comme chapitres dans des ouvrages collectifs et comme articles encyclopédiques. Il est l'auteur de quelques ouvrages dont certains qu'il a co-dirigés avec Kim Richard Nossal, Pat James et Marc O'Reilly. Il intervient régulièrement à titre de conférencier et de commentateur scientifique au Québec, au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe. Ses travaux et ses nombreuses publications lui ont valu le Prix d'excellence en recherche de son université en 2004 et le Prix d'excellence de l'université du Québec en 2005. Il est membre du conseil d'administration du Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur les processus de prise de décision particulièrement en matière de politique étrangère, les institutions politico-administratives, la dynamique de politique bureaucratique, les relations internationales des entités fédérées et les médias et la politique étrangère.
Contact: nelson.michaud@enap.ca
Claire Turenne-Sjolander (2006-2007)
(Ph.D. Carleton) Claire Turenne-Sjolander is Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research is in the area of Gender and Canadian Foreign Policy and Global Governance. She has edited a number of seminal collections, including On Global Governance: Critical Discourses and Practices with J.F. Thibeault, and Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy with H. Smith, and D. Stienstra.
Contact: c.turenne@uottawa.ca
Stéphane Roussel (UQAM) 2004-2005
Heather Smith (UNBC) 2003-2004
Louis Bélanger (Laval) 2002-2003
Robert Wolfe (Queen's) Founding Administrator 2000-2001
Robert Wolfe is Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. A former Canadian foreign service officer, he has published widely on Canadian foreign policy, trade policy, the policy process, and on international institutions, notably the World Trade Organization. With Louis Bélanger, he presided over the birth of ISA Canada and acted as its administrator before the Association was chartered.
Contact: wolfer@post.queensu.ca
Robert Wolfe Administrateur fondateur (2000-2001)
Robert Wolfe est professeur à la School of Policy Studies de l'Université Queen's, à Kingston, Ontario. Diplomate de carrière, il a beaucoup publié sur la politique étrangère du Canada, la politique de commerce international, le processus d'élaboration de la politique étrangère et les institutions internationales dont l'Organisation mondiale du commerce. Avec Louis Bélanger, il a co-présidé, les travaux qui ont donné naissance à ISA Canada et en a assumé l'administration avant que l'Association soit officiellement reconnue.
