CHAIRMAN
Sir Colin SheDherd
Former Chairman of Canadian Parliamentary Group
Member of British Committee, Canada United Kingdom Colloquia
RAPPORTEUR
Professor Peter Cole
Professor of Journalism and Head of the Department of Journalism at the University of Central
Lancashire, Preston
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Mr Alan John Donnelly MEP
European Parliament Member for Tyne and Wear and President of the EP Delegation for
Relations with the US Congress
Sir Nicholas Bavne KCMG and Lady Bayne
Honorary President of the British Committee, Canada United Kingdom
Colloquia
BRITISH SPEAKERS
Professor Robin Manse11
Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy, University
of Sussex
Dr Tom Rowbotham
Director of Technology Strategy, BT Laboratories
Mr Hugh Drayton
Marketing Director, Telegraph Group
Dr Sally Dench
Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Studies, University of Sussex
Sir John Daniel
Vice-Chancellor, Open University
Dr David Morrison & Mr Michael Svennivep
Research Directors, Institute of Communications Studies, University
of Leeds
Mr Colin Muid
Deputy Director, Central IT Unit, Cabinet Office
CANADIAN SPEAKERS
Professor Vincent Mosco
Professor of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
Dr Peter Nicholson and Mrs Nicholson
Executive Vice-President (Corporate Strategy), Bell Canada Enterprises
Mme Guvlaine Saucier
Chair, Board of Directors, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Dr Gordon Betcherman
Director of the Work Network of the Canadian Policy Research Networks
and Executive, Director of the Human Resource Group at Ekos Research
Associates
Professor Rena Unitis
Professor and Dean of Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Mr Andrew Reddick
President, Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Professor Les Pal
Professor of Public Policy and Administration Carleton University
OTHER BRITISH PARTICIPANTS
Professor David Keith Adams
Chairman of the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University
Deputy Chair, British Committee, Canada United Kingdom Colloquia
Mr Moray Angs
Information Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Mr Geoffrey Bacon
Chairman, British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia
Dr Robert Boyce
Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Treasurer, British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia British
Committee
Mr John Bridgeman
Director General, Office of Fair Trading
Member of British Committee, Canada United Kingdom Colloquia
Mr Terence Dominic Curran
British Consul General, Toronto and Director of Trade Promotion and
Investment, Canada
Mr Roy Dibble
Director, General Services, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Baroness Fookes of Plvmouth in the County of Devon DBE
Member of the House of Lords and former Deputy Speaker in the House
of Commons, Member of British Committee, Canada United Kingdom Colloquia
Ms Robin Erica Ford
Department of Trade & Industry and, until recently, seconded as Senior
LegalAdviser to OFTEL
Professor Brian Fender CMG and Mrs Fender
Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England
Dr Robert Garson
Head of Department and Director of the David Bruce Centre for American
Studies, Keele University
Mr John Griffith
Editor of the Liverpool Echo
Mr Alan Hird and Mrs Veronica Ann Lupton Hird
Executive Secretary of the British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom
Colloquia
Dr Peter Lyon
Academic Secretary of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Hon Vice-President, British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia
Mr Steve McGookin
News Editor, Electronic Publishing and Media Correspondent , The Financial
Times
Mr Alan Penrith
Canada Desk Officer, North America Department, Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
Mr Philip John Priestley, CBE
Head of North America Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Elizabeth Conway Symons)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
mairs
Mr Graham Walker
Editor of The World Today, the monthly magazine of the Royal Institute
of International Affairs - Chatham House
Mr Simon Webley
Director, British North America Research Association
Member of British Committee, Canada United Kingdom Colloquia
Mr Peter Westmacott
Director, Americas, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Mr Sam Younger
Managing Director, BBC World Service
OTHER CANADIAN PARTICIPANTS
Ms Alison Andrukov
PhD candidate at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario
Dr Keith G. Banting and Mrs Banting
Director of the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston,
Ontario
Mr & Mrs Jacques Bilodeau
Deputy High Commissioner, Canadian High Commission, London
Ms Debra Davis
Counsellor (Public Affairs), Canadian High Commission, London
Mr Michael Dawson
Northern Europe Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Professor Derrick de Kerckhove
Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto
Ms Vivien Hughes
Academic Relations Unit, Canadian High Commission, London
Mr Gilles Landry
Minister (Political and Public Affairs), Canadian High Commission,
London
Mr Tom MacDonald
Minister (Economic/Commercial), Canadian High Commission, London
The Hon Roy MacLaren PC and Mrs MacLaren
Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Mrs Trina McQueen
President and General Manager of Discovery Channel
Professor Michael D. Mehta
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Environmental Policy Unit of Queen’s University,
and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies with the School of
Environmental Studies at Queen’s
Professor John Meisel
Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Queen’s
University
R. Victor Rabinovitch
Heritage Canada
Professor Richard Schultz
Professor of Political Science and former Director of the Centre for
the Study of Regulated, Industries at McGill University
Mr Hugh Segal
Resident Fellow at the School of Policy StudiesQueen’s University,
Kingston, Ontario
Ms Laura Talbot-Allen
Secretary General and Chief Operating Officer of the Canadian Radio-Television
and Telecommunications Commission
Dr Robert Wolfe
School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSION COMPETITION WINNERS
Jennifer Gristock
Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Lynne Nikolychuk
Interdisciplinary Institute of Management, London School of Economics
