Centre for Global Challenges explained
| Centre for Global Challenges |
| Abbreviation: | CGC |
| Formation: | March 24, 2010 |
| Type: | Public policy think tank |
| Headquarters: | Glendon Campus, 2270 Bayview |
| Location: | Toronto, Ontario |
| Leader Title: | Director |
| Leader Name: | Alex Himelfarb |
| Website: | http://globalchallenges.ca/ |
The Centre for Global Challenges is a bilingual and non-partisan public policy forum associated with the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs. The CGC promotes public discussion of key issues. It seeks to bring together thought leaders – practitioners and scholars, policy makers and researchers – to explore the Canadian implications of key challenges like harnessing the global economy, adapting health and social architecture for the knowledge economy and the new demography, accommodating religion, diversity and common citizenship, and improving public institutions.
Governance
Alex Himelfarb is the Director of the Centre and Alexandre Brassard is the Coordinator.
The Centre is also guided by the Advisory Committee of the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs.[1] Current committee members include: Chaviva Hošek (chairperson), Rosalie Abella, Kim Campbell, Mel Cappe, David Collenette, Kenneth Courtis, Paule Doré, Graham Fraser, Paul Genest, Roger Gibbins, Chantal Hébert, Roy L. Heenan, Claude Lamoureux, Ian H. Macdonald, Peter J. Meekison, Michael Meighen, L. Jacques Ménard, André Pratte, Paul S. Rouleau, Jean-Louis Roy and Paul Wells.[2]
References
- News: Nobel Prize winner to speak at Centre for Global Challenges conference. February 16, 2010. Yfile . March 25, 2010.
- News: Canada's Silent Transformation. March 1, 2010. The Mark News. March 25, 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100410055601/http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1029-canada-s-silent-transformation. April 10, 2010.
- News: http://www.yorku.ca/mediar/archive/Release.php?Release=1842. March 1, 2010. Newswire Canada . March 17, 2010.
- News: Our place in the post-recessionary world. March 25, 2010. CanadaWorld . March 26, 2010.
- News: Glendon lance son nouveau Centre sur les défis mondiaux avec une conférence de George Akerlof - AUFC. March 25, 2010. AUFC. March 26, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706165318/http://www.aufc.ca/134-nouvelles/Glendon_lance_son_nouveau_Centre_sur_les_defis_mondiaux_avec_une_conference_de_George_Akerlof.html. July 6, 2011. dead.
- News: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=13365. March 25, 2010. YFile . October 2, 2009.
- Web site: Glendon's New Centre for Global Challenges Welcomes Nobel Prize Winner and Top International Economists to Inaugural Conference . Kemeny . Marika . 9 March 2010. Gledon . 17 June 2016.
- News: Le vieillissement: Prochaine menace pour l'économie. March 30, 2010. L'Express . March 30, 2010.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The Glendon School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) - the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA).
- Web site: Advisory Committee - Glendon College School of Public and International Affairs. York University, Glendon College. 4 April 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091127071408/http://www.glendon.yorku.ca/gspia/english/school/advisory_committee.php. 27 November 2009.
