Speakers
Dr Brunet-Jailly is a political scientist, specializing in comparative and urban politics, at the University of Victoria. At UVic’s School of Public Administration he is Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban and Border Region Policy, Director of the European Studies minor and of the European Union Centre for Excellence. He is also co-director of the Local Government Institute, and the editor of Journal of Borderland Studies.
Dr Gilbert is the Director of the Canadian Studies Program at University College, University of Toronto, and a member of the Graduate Program in the Department of Geography.Her research deals with questions relating to citizenship, mobility, borders, security, and militaries. One current project is the changing politics of the Canada-US border, examining the ways that border risks--economic and social--are being used to discipline behaviour and promote new forms of citizenship practice.
Dr Hale is a member of the Political Science Department at the University of Lethbridge. He has an extensive background in public policy and business-government relations, having worked for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (1978-79), the Canadian Organization of Small Business (1979-1987) and the Small Business Branch of the Ontario Government's Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology (1988-90). He was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec.
Christopher Sands is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he directs the Hudson Initiative on North American Competitiveness. He is also a fellow with the Border Policy Research Institute and the G. Robert Ross Distinguished Professor in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University; and a Professorial Lecturer in Canadian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.