Director
Program and Events Coordinator
Simone DeFacendis
Faculty
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream.
Director, Undergraduate Programs and Student Experience
Professor, Teaching Stream.
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream.
Distinguished Professor of Global Justice.
Lecturer.
Assistant Professor.
Assistant Professor.
Professor & George Ignatieff Chair, Department of Political Science
Trudeau Centre Fellows
Jae Hyun is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto. His dissertation project examines the ongoing civil war in Myanmar to understand why some non-state armed groups establish large businesses while continuing to fight the state during civil wars. Jae Hyun is also interested in the political legacies of wartime violence in post-war societies.
Francisca Granda
Francisca is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at UofT. She has a broad interest in the political economy of inequality and development particularly in Latin American contexts. Francisca proposed Doctoral research is driven by a desire to understand the relationships between grassroots organizations and local governments in fomenting the well-being of rural communities in the Highlands of Bolivia and Ecuador. She wants to use her research to inform development projects in Latin America. Francisca is fluent in Spanish and English, understands French, and is learning Kichwa.
Gabrielle Lim is a Doctoral Fellow at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, researching the intersection of technology, security, and global governance. Her work examines how emerging technologies in outer- and cyberspace shape international relations, impact state-society relations, and affect users. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
Advisory Board
- Mr. Andrew Cohen (Chair of the PCJ Advisory Board), author and journalist
- Mr. Timothy S.B. Danson, lawyer
- Dr. John English, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo
- Mr. Timothy Lang, President & CEO, Youth Employment Services (YES)
- Mr. Michael A. Levine, Chairman, Westwood Creative Artists, former partner of Goodmans, LLP
- Ms. Delia Opekokew, LLD, Cree lawyer and writer
- Ms. Kerry Paterson, Deputy Emergencies Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
- Mr. Chris Snyder, Co-founder & Chairman, ECC Group
- Ms. Tara Sutton, journalist and filmmaker