Welcome to Harvard University Club of Ottawa (HUCO)
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Melanie Adrian (Ph.D. GSAS ’07) Melanie Adrian is an alumnus of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, having graduated with a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology and the Study of Religion. This degree builds on a B.A from the University of Waterloo, an M.A from Essex University, and an A.M from Harvard University. She recently joined the Department of Law at Carleton University as an Assistant Professor. Melanie has been actively involved in promoting mediation as a viable alternative to the judicial system with Community Justice Initiatives (Waterloo 1994-1997), to increasing the visibility of industrial accidents in Asia with Documentation for Action Groups in Asia (Hong Kong 1995), and to working on issues of local justice within the communities in which she resides (age 13-present). Melanie was the first executive editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal (Cambridge: Harvard Law School) who was not a law student at the time of her tenure. She was elected president of Harvard’s largest graduate student association, the 3,000-member GSAS Graduate Student Council. She was working on promoting human rights programs with the Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs before starting her doctoral studies at Harvard. On a theoretical level, Melanie’s interests focus on the religious rights of minority peoples. Her forthcoming book, Risking Religious Freedom: France, the Veil and the Right to Act on Faith, critically examines the tensions which arise when a general religious right is applied in a specific context and what this application signifies for national identity and cultural norms. One of the driving questions of this project is: how should states integrate or accommodate religiously distinct peoples while maintaining a healthy balance between international and national rights and respect for national values? Ryan Androsoff (MPP, HKS ’10) Ryan Androsoff has a decade of experience working with public officials, political leaders and international organizations as a policy and strategy advisor, communications consultant, and grassroots organizer. Ryan currently works for the Government of Canada as the Senior Policy Advisor for Web 2.0 in the Chief Information Officer Branch of the Treasury Board Secretariat. Between 2004 and 2006, Ryan was at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) where he served as an advisor to Canada’s Minister of International Cooperation with responsibility for issues related to Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Agriculture, Trade, and Western Canada. In 2006 Ryan became a Junior Professional Associate at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. where he worked on initiatives to promote results-based management in international development. Ryan is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he earned a Master in Public Policy degree. His research at Harvard focused on “Government 2.0” and collaborative governance reforms and he specifically examined the implications for governments of using social media and other on-line collaboration tools. Ryan also has a Honours degree in Public Affairs and Policy Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Christopher Baird (AB, HU ’94) Christopher is Senior Director, Client Engagement Sector, Acquisitions Branch at Public Works and Government Services Canada where he is responsible for management and facilitation of communications to the Branch’s client department and agencies, the management and evolution of the Branch’s client governance initiatives, and the management of the Branch’s relationship with DND. Previously, he managed PWGSC’s Information Technology Branch’s national Telecommunications Program which delivers a portfolio of telecommunications services and solutions to government departments and agencies on a full cost recovery basis, with objective of delivering robust, enterprise class services while reducing the GC’s spend in the telecommunications space through meeting the needs of an aggregated demand for services. Christopher so held challenges roles of strategic services manager and client relationship manager, both within ITSB, where he managed client accounts, horizontal planning, governance and product portfolio management initiatives in the IT and telecommunications domain. Before entering the public service, Christopher was a consultant with a government relations firm, responsible for working with clients across a range of policy areas including energy, transportation, the environment, with a major focus on servicing the financial institutions sector. He experience included a four month period working in the firm’s Brussels office where Christopher consulted on client issues and challenges within the European public policy space. Born and raised in Ottawa, Christopher holds BA in Biology from Harvard University (1994) and an MBA with a focus on high technology from the University of Ottawa (1998). He was a four-year member of the varsity Harvard Hockey team, helping it reach the national championship tournament for two consecutive years. After graduating from Harvard, he spent a year in Reims, France playing professional hockey in the Champagne region. Christopher has served as the HUCO Schools Committee Chairperson for nine years and volunteers in his local community as a coach for both soccer and hockey. David Baird (OPM, HBS ’02) David Baird is a Harvard Business School alumnus and an advanced technology entrepreneur with over thirty years worldwide experience in security and system engineering. He holds dual Bachelor degrees in Electrical/Electronic Engineering plus Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Economics from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, as well as a Masters of Systems Engineering (M.Sc.EE) from the University of New Brunswick in Canada. David worked for leading companies in the aerospace, data communications, system engineering and IT consulting fields in a variety of Armed Forces projects involving defense and security-related applications. In 1982, David co-founded Integrated Security Solutions (ISS), a full-service company which developed, sold, installed and serviced sophisticated large-scale security systems for government, commercial and industrial buildings. He served first as Vice-President, Engineering, developing sophisticated hardware and software security products; then, as a Vice-President, Sales & Marketing. As President and CEO from 1997 to 2002, he led ISS to become a major success in North America and internationally with sales/service offices located in Canada, the US, the UK and Singapore. ISS clients included DND bases and HQ, the RCMP, the NYSE including the design, installation and support of the NYSE’s main complex of buildings in Wall Street in New York and the NYSE facilities in Europe and Asia, the World Trade Centre in Moscow and other buildings and facilities located throughout the world. David sold ISS to a large multi-national company in 2002, which operated successfully as part of GE Security and currently United Technologies. David is currently active in a wide range of entrepreneurial and business activities. His current business interests include the Internet/Web 2.0 and software and technology ventures. James Baxter (Research Fellow ’08) James Baxter is an award-winning journalist on domestic and international affairs, with a strong knowledge of trade and economics, energy and climate change, and federal-provincial relations. As a research fellow at the Harvard University Nieman Foundation for Journalism, he focused in three areas: the economic and legal ramifications of climate change and energy security; national security and privacy; and emerging technologies and the future of the news industry. As an Editorial Writer with the Edmonton Journal, he wrote opinion essays almost daily on an array of topics, including politics at all levels, public finances, leadership, climate change, energy exploration and security, health care, defence policy, Canada-U.S. foreign policy; arts and culture, Prairie life, and sports. Education: Research Fellow, Harvard University (2007-08): One of 15 international Nieman fellows, concentrated studies at HKS, HLS, HBS and MIT. M.P.S. and B.A. Syracuse University, dual degree (Newspaper Journalism & International Relations). Ron Cohen (AB, HU ’64) Since 1993, Ronald Cohen has been National Chair of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, which administers broadcast codes in the areas of broadcast ethics, journalistic ethics, ethno-cultural portrayal, and violence on television. A Harvard graduate (Class of 1964), lawyer and film producer by background, Mr. Cohen taught on the McGill Faculty of Law and served as Senior Counsel to the Quebec Police Commission’s televised Commission of Inquiry into Organized Crime. He is currently also Board Chair of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. His donation of a superb collection of the writings of L.M. Montgomery to the National Library forms the backbone of their Montgomery collection and was a large part of the 2008 exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables. He is also the Past President of the Friends of Library and Archives Canada. In 1992 he was the recipient of the 125th Anniversary of Confederation Medal. Ronald Cohen is the author of the highly praised 3-volume Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, published in London in 2006. He often speaks about Churchill, regularly answers queries from around the world on Churchillian bibliographical issues, and is a frequent contributor to Finest Hour, the quarterly publication of the International Churchill Society. In 2010, Ronald Cohen was honoured to deliver the Annual Address of the Sir Winston Churchill societies of Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton, which is the only such society formed in the lifetime of Sir Winston. Penny Collenette (JFK Sr. Fellow, CBG2004) Lawyer with extensive business and political experience, well-known speaker in corporate and government. Currently holds two appointments at the University of Ottawa (Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law and Executive in Residence at the Telfer School of Management) where she specializes in issues relating to public and corporate governance, ethics and corporate responsibility. Designed a course at the Faculty of Law entitled Whistleblowing: The Busy Intersection of Law and Ethics . Expert witness in ethics at the Oliphant Commission. Organized a symposium concerning a legal analysis of the right to water. Prof. Penny Collenette was a Senior Fellow at the Centre of Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2002-04). Penny has also held the position of Education Advisor to the Institute of Corporate Directors in Toronto and she was a Director of Holt Renfrew Ltd. for 6 years. Previously, she was Director of Appointments, Prime Minister’s Office (1993-1997) followed by four years as Vice President, Chairman’s Office, George Weston Ltd.; member of the Advisory Council of the Prosperity Fund, a community endowed fund for long term care institutions; Vice President, of Harvard University Club; fund-raiser, particularly for groups supporting women (Legal, Education and Action Fund for Women) and those who live with disabilities (Ottawa’s Citizen Advocacy). Awards & honours: The Honour Society, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa (2010), International Alliance of Women: 100 women in the world who make a difference (2008), Women’s Executive Network: Top 100 Powerful Women in Canada (2005), Maclean’s magazine list of 50 most influential Canadians (2002); Chatelaine: 50 most influential Women in Canada (1993); Lectured at Keio University in Tokyo as Opinion Leader invited by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kimberly Ellard (EE, HKS ’00) Kimberly Ellard is an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s public sector executive courses (Regulatory Management of Enforcement Agencies). She is a lawyer who holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences in political science from the University of Ottawa as well as a law degree. After passing the Ontario Bar Admission course, Kimberly opened a storefront legal practice specializing in real estate and family law (primarily focused on lower income clients). In addition to representing clients from Interval House (women’s abuse shelter) and volunteering at Women’s Place, Kimberly actively participated in Legal Aid programs, was a member of the Legal Aid Area Committee, and gave volunteer sessions and presentations on family law. She has volunteered with various organizations including local school councils (fighting inner city school closures), United Way Campaign and the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa. Since 1991, Kimberly has worked for the federal government, becoming a subject matter expert in all facets of lawmaking, from initial policy development through to steering bills through Parliament and their subsequent enactment, administration and enforcement. She has held various directors positions, gravitating to special projects requiring Cabinet, Prime Ministerial and Parliamentary approvals. She currently represents federal transportation interests in the negotiation of Aboriginal Agreements. David Flavell (HKS ’82) Dave is a recently retired executive from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat where he managed various teams focusing on organization development and strategic HR management. Prior to joining the federal Public Service in 1987, Dave was a senior manager with the Government of British Columbia. Dave began his career at the municipal level with the Town of Hampstead, Quebec. Dave spent his last year of government service on assignment to the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada where he was responsible for organizing the first federal summit on executive health. Dave holds a B.A. from McGill (1973), a M.A. from Toronto (1974) and a M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School (1982). Joseph K. Ingram (Parent, Leigh Anne Ingram, GSE ‘00) Joseph Ingram is an experienced international executive in leadership, governance and international development. During a thirty-year career at the World Bank, he served in senior management positions, including three years as the Bank’s Special Representative to the World Trade Organization and the UN agencies based in Geneva, including the WHO, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the ILO, UNCTAD, UNIDO and UNHCR. He focused on helping these agencies build consensus on development policy issues, including globalization, poverty alleviation and global-income disparities. Mr. Ingram also served for four years as Director of the World Bank’s Office in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina; carrying out the Bank-financed program to support reconstruction and Development; and coordinating the donor community on development issues, as a member of the multi-donor task force in the post-conflict situation. In Washington, Mr. Ingram was Deputy Director of the World Bank Institute for four years, working closely with senior management to expand the Bank’s training institution from a narrow economic to a broader focus. The knowledge-sharing emphasis covered social, political and governance issues. This led to increased collaboration with institutions in client countries, particularly in emerging economies in Eastern Europe and Africa, as well as new partnerships in Europe, the US and Canada. Mr. Ingram also managed the establishment of the World Bank’s Global Distance Learning Network, a satellite-based learning platform for dissemination of development knowledge globally, which transformed the Bank’s capacity to acquire and impart knowledge. His work in the field included serving as Director of the Bank’s Office in Cameroon for four years and Deputy Director in Nigeria. As a Bank official based in Washington, he also helped develop and manage economic reform programs in Burkina Faso, Senegal and the former Yugoslavia. Over the course of his career, Mr. Ingram has lectured and participated in conferences at Oxford, the London School of Economics, McMaster University, the University of Toronto, Queen’s, France’s International Institute of Public Administration, the Universities of Geneva and of St. Gallen, IMD in Lausanne, the Bled School of Management in Slovenia, the University of Sarajevo, and the Universities of Bologna and Siena. He is on the editorial board of the World Bank publication ¨Development Outreach¨ and, in 2006, was the guest contributing editor to a special edition on human rights and development. In addition to human rights, his work has focused on international trade, growth and employment issues, structural reforms, training and knowledge transfer, international public goods management, and post-conflict reconstruction and development. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Ingram represented the IDRC as Regional Representative for the Middle East and North Africa, based in Beirut. He also taught at a private college for two years in the Ivory Coast as a volunteer for the Canadian University Service Overseas. After retiring from the World Bank in 2006, Mr. Ingram worked as a development consultant on human rights for the World Bank, the UN High Commission for Human Rights, and for the Canadian government. He also served as a senior advisor to the WTO on trade and development issues in francophone Africa and the Middle East. In August of this year, Mr. Ingram returned to Ottawa as President and CEO of The North-South Institute, an independent think tank devoted to economic and social development in the world’s poorest countries. He also recently published a number of articles and scholarly papers on issues related to post-conflict development and counter-insurgency in Afghanistan. Mr. Ingram holds a Master’s degree in political economy and studied at McMaster University in Canada and the Harvard Business School. He is fluent in French and Italian and has a working knowledge of Spanish. James Junke (MPA, Kennedy, ’86) James Junke is Director, Human Rights and Governance Policy Division in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, since August 2009. He is a career foreign service officer whose previous assignments in Ottawa include Director, Non Proliferation and Disarmament (2006-2009), Director Asia, International Assessments Staff, Privy Council Office (2003-2006), Director, South Asia (1999-2003), Director, United States General Relations (1991-1994). Postings abroad have been to Thailand, Lebanon, Pakistan and Italy. Education: Honours BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Voluntary sector: previously a volunteer at the Ottawa Civic Hospital; annual volunteer in the Government of Canada Charitable Campaign; regular blood donor. Peter Kieran (MBA, HBS ’71) Peter Kieran is the President of CPCS Transcom. Since 1990, Peter has been working with international financial institutions, as well numerous African governments, to develop new approaches to the reform and privatization of transportation systems. He has played a key role in developing the policies and practices used to concession railways and ports in Africa. He has provided policy direction to national governments in over 25 countries on infrastructure and is currently a member of the Canadian Advisory Board on Infrastructure. Peter has been responsible for leading large multi-disciplinary teams leading to the successful privatization of more than ten state-owned railways and ports, the majority on the African continent. His clients include the Government of Canada, the World Bank, the United Nations and the governments of several developing countries. His current initiative is to stress the importance and the economic and financial feasibility of urban mass transit systems for Africa’s large and rapidly growing cities. In this regard he is leading the CPCS team that is assisting the Lagos State Government to implement the first major PPP commuter rail project in Sub-Saharan Africa – the Lagos Blue Line. Earlier in his career Mr. Kieran worked for IBM and McKinsey Consulting. He holds an Engineering degree from the University of Toronto an MBA from Harvard University. Alain Paul Martin (OPM, HBS ’99) Author of Harnessing the Power of Intelligence, Counterintelligence & Surprise Events, Alain Martin is President of The professional development Institute (PDI), where he coaches team leaders and executives in governance, principled negotiation, strategy, risk, project management and leadership. His clients include E.ON, Textron's Bell Helicopter, Boeing, Bombardier, EDC, GE, Ontario Power, bio-technology companies and governments. He was a Faculty Member at the University of Quebec in the graduate management program; has advised the Director General of UNESCO, and has served as executive member of the non-partisan Committee of the Prime Minister of Canada on Government Reform. He held managerial positions in operations research and systems development at Du Pont, Domtar, CBC News and Bombardier. Alain has also managed international projects including telecommunications, airport security and the strategic turnaround of Desjardins Assurance Générales. Alain Martin is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School where he studied entrepreneurship in the OPM Program (1997-99). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Concordia University. He was trained in advanced technology in Lille (France), management of change at MIT, team building and people skills at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and principle-based negotiation and mediation at the Harvard Law School. Alain is the Principal Architect of Harvard University Global System™ – a practical framework to reduce complexity, comprising management tools and road maps on issue analysis, interest-based negotiation, strategy, risk and project management. Alain is President of Harvard University Club and Past President of Harvard Business School Club in Canada's National Capital area (2005-2009). His upcoming book The Seven Critical Success Factors of Great Leaders will be published in 2012. Alain windsurfs, hikes and runs marathons including Boston’s. Martha McDougall (LLM, HLS ’95) Mid-career lawyer specialized in public and administrative laws, human rights (international and domestic), as well as corrections, refugee/immigration and military laws. Manager of both lawyers and non-lawyers. Taught law inside and outside of government. Currently a Department of Justice lawyer at the National Parole Board since 2005 responsible for all areas of administrative and federal statutory law (parole, corrections) and corporate counsel (privacy, access to information, electronic imaging). Department of Justice (2005): Completed and won international human rights communication; wrote legal opinions on international human rights and prisoners, on domestic prison law. Canadian Forces Grievance Board (2000-05). Immigration and Refugee Board (1996-2000). Faculty of Law Member: Université nationale du Rwanda (on leave from work 1998-99). Pro Bono Lawyer: Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Sri Lanka (1995). Manager: Immigration and Refugee Board (1988-94). Lands Offic, Department of Indian Affairs (1987-88). Education: Masters Degree in Law, Harvard Law School. Civil Law Degree, University of Ottawa (1980-84). Université de Nantes, France (1978-79) Essays on French Literature. B.A. in History and Philosophy, Trent University (1976-78) Published in the Book Review of Canadian Military Law and in the Canadian Military Journal. Executive Member of the Military Law Section, Canadian Bar Association (2004-08) Kyle McRobie (MBA, HBS, ’82) Kyle McRobie is a graduate of the Harvard Business School. She also holds a B.A. in French from Dartmouth College and studied for a year in France on a Rotary Fellowship. She has worked for both the private and public sectors - for Goldman Sachs in New York and Merrill Lynch in Toronto prior to joining the Executive Interchange Program with the Federal Government of Canada. She held senior positions with Investment Canada and the Privy Council Office and launched her own consulting firm in 1993 to provide advisory services to the Federal Government of Canada in trade and investment development. Kyle was elected President of the Harvard University Club of Ottawa in 1991, following a term as Treasurer and Vice-President. Continuing her interest in education, she has served on the Board of MacDonald-Cartier Academy, as a long-time volunteer for Ashbury College, and coached community soccer. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and lives in Ottawa with her husband and three children. Alayna Miller (AB, HU ’03) Alayna is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario (Law, 06) and Harvard University (English, 03). Prior to joining Sevigny Westdal LLP, Alayna articled and practised with a boutique litigation firm in Ottawa. She is now focused exclusively on the areas of labour and employment law. Alayna is on the executive of the Ontario Bar Association – Young Lawyers’ Division East, where she assists in the realization of continuing legal education programs, social events and community volunteer projects. She devotes much of her spare time to coaching with the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club in which she draws upon her experiences as a decorated long jumper and sprint hurdler at the collegiate level. Alayna also does her best to maintain her interests in dance and literature. |
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