Event Date: March 17, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Location: room 4004, 120 University Private,Social Sciences Building,
A talk by David Malone, President, International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
Registration is not required. This event will be in English and French.
India is emerging as a great power on the global stage, to a degree outgrowing its earlier focus on its immediate neighbourhood. But what sort of a great power will India be?
David Malone was appointed as president of IDRC in July 1 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Malone served as Canada`s High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal. Other positions he has held include: Assistant Deputy Minister in Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; President, International Peace Academy, New York; Director General of Policy, International Organizations and Global Issues Bureaux, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada; and Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations. He has published extensively on peace and security issues, including several books: Decision Making in the UN Security Council: The Case of Haiti (1999), Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (co-edited with Mats Berdal, 2000), Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy (co-edited with Yuen Foong Khong, 2002), From Reaction to Conflict Prevention: Opportunities for the UN System (co edited with Fen Osler Hampson, 2002), The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century (2004), The International Struggle for Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980-2005 (2006), and Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict (co-edited with Markus Bouillon and Ben Rowswell, 2007). He is currently writing a book on Indian foreign policy.