Global Ideas Institute  

2011-12 Mentor Profiles

Mark Anderson | Bev Bradley | Nick Buffo | Hormuz Dadabhoy | Kristen Dahl | Andrew Do | Supriya Joshi | Nessa Kenny | Sara Lee | Mimi Liu | Erik MacKinnon | Robert Meynell | Danielle Pacey | Casey Panning | Richard Park | Rufina Park | Emman Rahman | Jashpreet Saini | Lindsey Spencer | Kerry Sun | Sean Verigin

Sean Verigin is completing the specialist program at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto, with a focus on the political economy of human security. He studies existential threats to human security in the twenty-first century and how societies adapt to disruptive ecological, economic, and technological change. His research is interdisciplinary, drawing on comparative public policy, heterodox economics, and security studies. Sean recently interned at the Asia-Pacific Foundation in Vancouver. He also worked at the Mosaic Institute, where he published reports on Canadian international development policy. These include a “Smart Map” report for the Department of Foreign Affairs and a forthcoming cross-national report for the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation. Sean was shortlisted for the Rhodes Scholarship in 2011 – 2012.