Junior Fellow Pillar 3 – International Competencies

Speakers

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  Rosemary McCarney Senior Fellow and Diplomat in Residence at Massey College
  

  Rosemary McCarney

  Senior Fellow and Diplomat in Residence at Massey College

  Rosemary McCarney is an award-winning humanitarian, business leader, author, recognized public speaker and media commentator. Her extensive career in law, business, academia, the not-for-profit sector, and diplomacy has taken her to over 100 countries. She was the first Executive Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute, has practiced law in the US and Canada, and has held executive positions in the technology sector and in civil society. In 2005, she became the CEO of Plan Canada International, one of the oldest and largest charities in Canada.

  In 2015, she was appointed Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. On her return to Canada, she joined Trinity College as the inaugural Pearson Sabia Visiting Scholar in International Relations and was appointed the Graham Massey Senior Distinguished Fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy. Rosemary is the James Coutts Distinguished Visitor at Trinity College and lectures in the International Relations Faculty in Multilateral Diplomacy and Global Governance and Global Health Security. She is a Senior Fellow of the Graham Centre for Contemporary History as well as the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.

  She is a passionate multilateralist, a committed advocate for human rights and human rights defenders and for the power of diplomacy, consensus building and interdisciplinary perspectives to address the challenges of our time. Her award-winning series of children’s books, intended to make social justice and human rights issues accessible to young readers, have been translated and published around the world.

• Ben Rowswell President and Research Director, Canadian International Council
  Ben Rowswell

  President and Research Director, Canadian International Council

  Hon. Ben Rowswell, President and Research Director of the Canadian International Council since November 2018. Ben served as Canada’s Ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 to 2017. This capped a 25 year career as a professional diplomat including assignments in Canada’s embassies to Egypt, to the United States, and in Canada’s Permanent Mission to the UN. He served Canada’s first diplomatic envoy to Baghdad, Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein from 2003 to 2005, as Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan and as head of the NATO Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar between 2008 and 2010.As a practitioner of international relations, Ben’s thematic interest has been in human rights and democracy. As Ambassador to Venezuela, Ben was an outspoken advocate of the restoration of the popular sovereignty of Venezuelans after the suspension of constitutional order in early 2017. These experiences abroad awakened an interest in the role of citizens in our own democracy. In Ottawa, Ben supported the Cabinet process as a member of the Privy Council Office during the tenures of Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper, experiences that exposed him to the far-reaching impact that public opinion has on decision-making at the highest levels of government. Ben brings that passion for the role of individual citizens to the CIC, a platform for everyday Canadians to participate in the national conversation about our nation’s role in the world.