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Barbara Jackman’s legal career has centered on championing the rights of the less fortunate, particularly those of immigrants and refugees. She earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Windsor in 1972 before completing her law degree at the University of Toronto in 1976 and being called to the Bar in 1978. She has had a successful career as a litigator, including as counsel in cases involving immigration and refugee issues that have appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada. As a...
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Jean-Louis Roy is an academic, journalist and diplomat who has been editor-in-chief of Le Devoir (1981-1986), Delegate General for Quebec in Paris (1986-1990), and secretary general of Agence intergouvernementale de la francophonie, the forerunner of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (1990-1998). From 2002 to 2007, he was president of Rights and Democracy, and in 2008, he founded Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Watch, which monitors how well United Nation member states comply wi...
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Throughout his extensive career in counselling, psychology and education, Jeffrey Kottler has sought to enlighten and educate both therapists and the public in order to foster mental health, creativity and understanding.  He studied at Oakland University, Harvard University, and the University of Stockholm, receiving his master’s degree in counseling at Wayne State University and his doctoral degree in counseling psychology from the University of Virginia. Mr. Kottler has worked as a teac...
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Claire Deschênes is an engineer and Laval University professor who is a world renowned researcher in hydraulic turbine technology. She was awarded bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Laval University before earning a doctorate at the Institut national polytechnique in Grenoble. In 1989, she became the first female professor of engineering at Laval University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering. There she founded the Hydraulic Machines Laboratory (LAMH), today a glob...
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Gisèle Lalonde graduated from the École normale at the University of Ottawa in 1951, and became a pioneer in the field of education in Francophone Ontario. Initially a teacher, she rose through the ranks to be appointed to management roles within Franco-Ontarian schools, and later to positions and committees of increasing importance, first locally and then provincially and nationally. A Franco-Ontarian high school in Orleans bears her name in recognition of her unique contribution to education ...
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As the daughter of Colombia’s ambassador to UNESCO, Ingrid Bétancourt grew up between Paris and Bogota. She attended the Institut d’études politiques in Paris during the 1980s before marrying and then giving birth to two children, Mélanie and Lorenzo. She returned to Colombia and was elected as a liberal parliamentarian in 1994, before becoming a senator within the new Green party she founded, Oxígeno Verde. With great courage, she ceaselessly denounced corruption and pursued her vision of soci...
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Sally J. Daub graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in chemical engineering in 1998 before going on to earn a law degree from Dalhousie University. She began her career as a patent attorney at Smart & Biggar, a Toronto law firm. She then moved to Nortel Networks, where she specialized in IP licensing, strategy, and corporate development. In 1996, she joined ATI Technologies as general patent counsel before being named vice president and chief legal counsel in 2000. Then in 2...
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Professor Marie Battiste is a Mi'kmaw educator from the Potlotek First Nation, Nova Scotia and full professor at the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the founding academic director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre (AERC) at the University of Saskatchewan, a founding board member of the Canadian Council on Learning, and a former co-director of the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre. She currently heads a SSHRC-funded research hub called...
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Chairman of Institut Mérieux Born in Lyon in 1938, Alain Mérieux followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who were eminent researchers in the health sciences. His education in both pharmacology and business gave him the unique ability to understand the importance of higher education and research while effectively managing a range of successful foundations and companies in France and abroad. In 1963, he founded a company specializing in biodiagnostics and continued his father’s...
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A graduate of the University of Montreal and the University of London, Robert Décary practiced law in Montreal and then in Gatineau for two decades while serving in the federal public service, including as special assistant to the Secretary of State for External Affairs and as co-director of research for the Task Force on Canadian Unity (Pepin-Robarts report). During the 1980s, he provided political and legal analyses for influential Quebec newspapers Le Devoir and La Presse, as well as on tel...
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