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Organizing Committee

MICHAELE ROBERTSON was educated at the University of Toronto and McMaster University in Hamilton and is completing her fortieth year working in schools. She is the current Principal of The University of Toronto Schools (UTS). Her previous appointments were at Hillfield-Strathallan College, where she was Academic Director, and at Upper Canada College, where she was Head of the Upper School and a lead on the UCC Creativity Project. She is a founding member of Licensed to Learn, a charitable organization in Toronto, which trains and certifies peer tutors at the middle school and high school levels. Michaele has also served as the Chair of the St. Peter’s Hospital Board in Hamilton and is a sought-after speaker and consultant in the areas of strategic planning, technology and education and creativity.

JANICE GROSS STEIN is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management
in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk School of Global Aff airs at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent publications include Networks of Knowledge: Innovation in International Learning (2000); The Cult of Efficiency (2001); Street Protests and Fantasy Parks (2001), and Canada by Mondrian (2006). She is the co-author, with Eugene Lang, of the prize-winning The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar. She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She has received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Alberta, the University of Cape Breton, and McMaster University. She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.

JOSEPH WONG is Associate Professor of Political Science and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Health and Development. He is also the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Aff airs. Wong is the author of many academic articles and several books, including Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea and (forthcoming) Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of the Asian Developmental State, both published by Cornell University Press. Professor Wong has been a visiting scholar at major institutions in the US (Harvard), Taiwan, Korea and the UK (Oxford); has worked extensively with the World Bank and the UN; and has advised governments on matters of public policy in Asia, the Americas and Europe. Wong’s current research focuses on poverty and health, as well as state management of disease and epidemics. Wong was educated at McGill and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

EILEEN LAM is the Associate Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs.