MARCEL BOYER
http://www.iedm.org/main/main.p

Marcel Boyer is one of Canada’s best known economists. He is the Senior Economist and President of the Montreal Economic Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie Mellon University and teaches at the economics department of the University of Montreal. He sits on the board of the Quebec agency for public-private partnerships. Mr. Boyer is the recipient of numerous scientific distinctions. In 2002, he obtained the Marcel Vincent Prize awarded by the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) for the exceptional quality of his work in social science. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and has served as president of the Canadian Economic.

ELIZABETH BRUBAKER
http://www.environment.probeinternational.org

Elizabeth Brubaker is the executive director of Environment Probe. Environment Probe works to expose government policies that harm not only Canada’s forests, fisheries, waterways, and other natural resources but also the economy. Brubaker is the author of several books including Liquid Assets: Privatizing and Regulating Canada’s Water Utilities. Brubaker has written and spoken extensively on water – including its pricing, allocation, regulation, and quality. She has also participated in a number of regulatory hearings regarding water, including the Demand-Supply Plan Hearing in the early 1990s (the environmental assessment of Ontario Hydro’s nuclear and hydroelectric expansion plans) and the Walkerton Inquiry, for which she prepared a study on water utility privatization. Brubaker is a member of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, an independent federal agency that provides advice to the government and the public on the integration of environmental conservation and economic development.

TERENCE CORCORAN
http://www.financialpost.com/

Terence Corcoran, editor of the Financial Post, is one of Canada’s leading business writers andeditors. He joined the Post after 10 years as a columnist with The Globe and Mail. As a journalist, Mr. Corcoran has been writing on business and economic policy matters for most of the past 35 years, bringing a free-market perspective to Canadian economic and political affairs. He won awards for news reporting in 1976 and editorial writing in 1984. He was co-author of the best selling book Public Money Private Greed. A graduate of Carleton University School of Journalism, Mr. Corcoran began his business writing career with Canadian Press in his native Montreal.

DR. ROBERT A. PASTOR
The School of International Service

Robert Pastor is Vice President of International Affairs and Professor of International Relations at American University. He directs AU’s expanding international programs and activities, reflecting the University’s commitment to become the nation’s premier global university. Dr. Pastor has established two new institutions that draw together teaching, research, and service on key global themes for the 21st century – democracy and integration. The Center for North American Studies educates and conducts research about Canada, Mexico, and the United States with the aim of understanding and building a North American Community. Dr. Pastor is the author or editor of sixteen books. He has been a foreign policy advisor to each of the Democratic Presidential Candidates since 1976 and was Chair of the Working Group on North America for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. President Bill Clinton nominated him to be Ambassador to Panama, and he served as the Senior Advisor to the Carter-Nunn-Powell Mission to restore constitutional government in Haiti in 1994. He is the Vice Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America, and he is also Executive Director of the Commission on Federal Election Reform.

ERIK R. PETERSON
http://csis.org/program/global-water-futures

Erik Peterson is director of A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council, a strategic advisory service specifically designed for the world’s top CEOs and business-minded thought leaders. He joined in the firm in February 2010. He is also a senior adviser at CSIS, the Washington-based bipartisan, nonprofit think tank on foreign policy and national security issues. Formerly (1998–2010), he was senior vice president at CSIS. He also held the CSIS William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, an endowed chair named in honor of Merrill Lynch chairman emeritus Bill Schreyer. From 2003 to 2010, Peterson served as director of the CSIS Global Strategy Institute—a “think tank within a think tank”—which he established in 2003 to assess long-range trends. Previously, he was director of studies at CSIS (1992–2003), in which capacity, he oversaw and coordinated programs, projects, and publications across the organization. Before joining CSIS, Peterson was director of research at Kissinger Associates, the international consulting firm chaired by former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger.