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John Kirton (Lead Instructor), john.kirton@utoronto.ca
John Kirton is the director of the G8 Research Group, established at the University of Toronto in 1987. In 1992-93, he served as a Special Projects Officer in Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, devising a strategy for Canada's G7 participation. He has conducted media analyses of the G7/G8 Summits on behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He served on the Foreign Policy Committee of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, an advisory body to the Prime Minister of Canada, and participated in the preparations for the 1995 Halifax Summit. He was a member of the Canadian Government's International Trade Advisory Committee from 1995 to 1997.

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Nicholas Bayne, nicholas.bayne@ukgateway.net

Sir Nicholas Bayne, KCMG, is a Fellow at the International Trade Policy Unit of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also teaches at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University. As a British diplomat, he was High Commissioner to Canada from 1992 to 1996, Economic Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1988 to 1992, and Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 1985 to 1988.

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Daniel Benjamin, dbenjami@csis.org
Daniel Benjamin is a senior fellow in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS in January 2001, he was Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace. From 1994 to1999, he served on the National Security Council staff. In 1998-1999, he was director for transnational threats. His principal responsibilities were in the area of counterterrorism and included coordinating U.S. counterterrorism policy, programs, and budgets within the federal government. From 1994 to 1997, he was a special assistant to the president and National Security Council director for speechwriting.

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Andre Thomas Belelieu, ABelelieu@csis.org

Andre Belelieu is a Research Associate in the CSIS Americas Program, where he focuses on homeland security issues, including border cooperation between Canada and the United States and the development of the Department of Homeland Security, terrorism in the Western Hemisphere, Canadian and U.S. politics, Canada-U.S. defense relations, and North American economic integration.

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Robert Fauver

Robert Fauver is a former senior advisor to the U.S. Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs. From 1995 to 1999, he served as the National Intelligence Officer for Economics on the National Intelligence Council. Previously he was Counsellor to the Undersecretary for International Affairs at the Treasury Department and Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Economic Policy; in this capacity, Mr. Fauver was the President's personal representative (sherpa) responsible for overseeing preparations for the G7 Economic Summit process in 1993 and 1994.

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Michael Fratianni , fratiann@indiana.edu

Michael Fratianni is W. George Pinnell Professor and Chair of the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Graduate School of Business of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana (USA). Taught also at the Catholic University of Louvain, the Università Cattolica of Milan, the Università Sapienza of Rome, Marquette University, and Free University of Berlin. Economic adviser to the European Commission in Brussels (1976-79), senior staff economist with the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers (1981-82); adviser to the Italian government (Treasury, Budget, Istituto di Studi per la Programmazione Economica, Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi), the governments of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Vietnam, and consultant with several private-sector firms. Recipient of the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic for scientific achievements (1982); the Pio Manzu´ Center Gold Medal (1982); Scanno prize in economics (1991); and the St. Vincent prize in economics (1992). Managing editor of OER and a member of the review board of several economics journals. Author of 19 books and approximately 100 articles dealing with macroeconomics, monetary economics, international finance and public choice. Click here for more information on Michael Fratianni.

Jeffrey Hart, hartj@indiana.edu

Jeffrey Hart is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has taught international politics and international political economy since 1981. His first teaching position was at Princeton University from 1973 to 1980. He was a professional staff member of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties from 1980 to 1981. Professor Hart worked at the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress in 1985­86 and helped to write "International Competition in Services" (1987). He was visiting scholar at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 1987­89. His major publications include The New International Economic Order (1983), Interdependence in the Post-Multilateral Era (1985), Rival Capitalists (1992), Globalization and Governance (1999), Coping with Globalization (2000), and Responding to Globalization (2000), The Politics of International Economic Relations (6th edition, 2002), Technology, Television and Competition (2004), and scholarly articles in World Politics, International Organization, the British Journal of Political Science, New Political Economy, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

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Saori N. Katada, skatada@usc.edu

Professor Katada's researchrevolves around North-South issues, particularly the ways in which relationsamong developed countries influence the political economy of development.Her special interests include international financial and monetary relations,foreign aid, and foreign investments that involve both the United Statesand Japan, as well as other countries in Asia and Latin America. Her mostrecent work focuses on the study of regionalism. She is also interestedin the integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Sheteaches courses on Japanese foreign policy, international political economy,North-South relations and development, as well as Pacific Rim issues.

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Ella Kokotsis, ekokotsis@hotmail.com

Ella Kokotsis is Director of Analytical Studies for the University of Toronto's G8 Research Group. She joined the Research Group in 1994 as a policy analyst and research co-ordinator. In this position, she has attended various G7/G8 Summits and prepared commissioned policy options papers for the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

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Professor Antonia Maioni, ekokotsis@hotmail.com

Antonia Maioni is the Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and is an associate professor of political science and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University. She has published extensively in the field of comparative politics, with a particular focus on health policy. She is the author of Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada (Princeton University Press, 1998), and has written on a number of related topics such as market incentives and public opinion in health care reform, federalism and social policy-making, and the welfare state in Canada.

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David Malone

David Malone became president of the International Peace Academy on November 1, 1998, on leave from the Government of Canada. A career Canadian Foreign Service officer and occasional scholar, 1994 and 1998 he was successively Director General of the Policy, International Organizations and Global Issues Bureaus of the Canadian Foreign and Trade Ministry. During this period he also acquired a D.Phil. from Oxford University with a thesis on decision making in the UN Security Council.

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Dr. Hanns W. Maull, maull@uni-trier.de

Hanns W.Maull holds the Chair for Foreign Policy and International Relations at the University of Trier. He studied Political Science, Modern History and Communications in Munich and London. His previous positions include Research Fellowships at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London (1973-1974) and the Sussex European Research Centre of Sussex University (1975-1976).

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Victoria Panova
Victoria Panova is a doctoral candidate in the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia at Moscow State University of International Relations. She lectures on the English language, in particular on political translation and diplomatic correspondence, and on the history of international relations at Moscow State University of International Relations. Her areas of research is the G8 and its role in conflict management and she is author of Multilateral Mechanisms of Co-operation of the Major Industrial Powers (Group of Eight), 1975­2002 (in press).

Kimon Valaskakis, kimonv@hotmail.com

Dr. Valaskakis was until the end of August 1999 the Canadian Ambassador to the OECD. Appointed in 1995 by the Canadian Prime Minister, he sat ex officio on the Board of Governors of the OECD and was the plenipotentiary representative of Canada there. The OECD is a permanent intergovernmental conference and policy analysis unit involving 29 member states and employing 2000 professionals. In 1999 Valaskakis was also chairman of the Board of the OECD Development Centre a subsidiary body of OECD.

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