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Jinelle Piereder is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, specializing in conflict and security. Supervised by Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, Jinelle works within the Ideological Conflict Project based at the Balsillie School, and focuses on ideological conflict within global governance and public policy-making. Using approaches and tools from complexity science, including Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM) …
Cynthia Cristina Leal Garza is studying the PhD in Global Governance at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is undertaking this study as a result of the High-Level Training Program for the Federal Public Administration Scholarship (2017-2021) that she was awarded by the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) thanks …
Dr. Maissaa Almustafa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Glendon Political Science at York University, Toronto, working on the Whole-COMM, a research project on migrant integration in Europe and Canada, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020. Dr. Almustafa is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, where she …
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events
University of Waterloo
Hari KC is a doctoral candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University. His dissertation examines labour migration governance with a focus on Nepali women migrant workers in the Gulf countries. Born and raised in the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal, Hari’s professional background comprises work in diverse areas, …
Scott Janzwood’s research examines the ways that scientists and policymakers collaborate to address global catastrophic risks (GCRs) such as climate change, infectious disease outbreaks and near-Earth object (NEO) impacts. His research explores the intervening role of deep uncertainty and the approaches used by experts and decision makers to manage it. His dissertation focuses on the issues of …
Lucy Hinton is a Aspiration 2030 Postdoctoral Fellow.
A specialist in conflict transformation processes, strategy development and program design, with a particular focus on theories of change integrating socio-political processes and media activities, Frances Fortune has worked with several national and international NGOs in Africa. Being situated with civil society in West Africa, and living in Sierra Leone for the past 30 years, enabled Frances …
Lucie Edwards retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs in December 2009. Her last assignment in a 33 year career with DFAIT was as Chief Strategist and Head of the Office for Transformation. To mark her retirement, she was awarded the Department’s Lifetime Achievement Award of Excellence for 2009. She had previously served in Ottawa as Assistant Deputy …