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"Canada and Israel - A Personal Perspective on the Ties
that Bind"
Michael Ignatieff, prominent Canadian author and academic, was
first elected in 2006 as the Member of Parliament for Etobicoke
Lakeshore. Michael currently serves as Deputy Leader of the Liberal
Opposition. Prior to entering politics, Michael earned an international
reputation working as journalist, author and academic in the field
of human rights and international affairs.
He is the former director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights
and Policy at Harvard University and has served as the Chancellor
Jackman Visiting Professor in Human rights Policy at the University
of Toronto and Senior Fellow of the Munk Centre for International
Studies. He is one of the most influential voices in the global
debate on human rights, as well as the distinguished author of
an acclaimed biography of British academic Sir Isaiah Berlin and
such award-winning works as Blood and Belonging and The Rights
Revolution.
 Michael
received a degree in History at the University of Toronto and
a doctorate at Harvard University. He is a former Senior Research
Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and has held teaching posts
at the University of British Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard,
the University of California, the University of London and the
London School of Economics.
He is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction
and the Heinemann Award, and was shortlisted for the prestigious
Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award. Michael
has also been a regular broadcaster and critic on television and
radio.
Michael is married to Zsuzsanna Zsohar, and has two children,
Theo and Sophie.
Aurel Braun
Aurel Braun is Professor of International Relations and Political
Science at the University of Toronto and a specialist
in international law. A Fellow and Senator of Trinity College
at the University of Toronto, Professor Braun is also Research
Associate of both the Centre for Russian and East European Studies
and the Centre for International Studies at the University of
Toronto. He has twice been a Visiting Scholar at the
Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Professor Braun has published numerous books, including The Middle
East in Global Strategy; The Extreme Right: Freedom and
Security At Risk; Dilemmas of Transition and most recently,
NATO-Russia Relations in the 21st Century. He lectures
widely in Canada and the United States, and has
been invited to speak in Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy,
Switzerland, Russia, Austria and Norway.
Professor Braun appears frequently on national television and
radio and contributes often to national newspapers. He has also
been asked to testify several times before parliamentary committees
in Ottawa and participated in the Congressional Program in the
United States under the auspices of the Aspen Institute.
Professor Braun received his Master’s at the University
of Toronto and his doctorate at the London School of Economics.
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