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Biographies
Thomas S. Axworthy
Thomas S. Axworthy is the President and CEO of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation. He has
had a distinguished career in government, academia, and philanthropy. Early in his career, he served
as Senior Policy Advisor and Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, before leaving
politics to teach. In 1984, Dr. Axworthy went to Harvard University as a Fellow of the Institute of
Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. He was subsequently appointed visiting Mackenzie King
Chair of Canadian Studies. In 1999, Dr. Axworthy helped to create the Historica Foundation to improve
teaching and learning of Canadian history, becoming its executive director until 2005. Dr. Axworthy was invested as an
Officer of the Order of Canada in 2002. In 2003, he became Chair of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, School of
Policy Studies, Queen’s University, pursuing the themes of expanded human rights and responsibilities, democratic
reform, Canadian-American relations, and modern liberalism that characterized his research, teaching and advocacy
career. He is a distinguished senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and a senior fellow at Massey College. Dr.
Axworthy was recently appointed Secretary General of the InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and
Government.
Martin Breum
Martin Breum, Denmark, is an author and a journalist. His most recent publication is When the Ice Melts
– Denmark as a major power in the Arctic, the oil in Greenland and the race for the North Pole: a
journalist’s impression of Arctic affairs from a Danish perspective (in Danish only). In 2009 he headed the
first Danish TV-crew in Antarctica. He presently anchors a daily current affairs program on Danish TV. He
has lived in the USA, two years in Greenland and five in Africa as a correspondent. He was formerly the
Deputy Director of International Media Support, an international NGO offering support for media
communities in countries affected by war. He is currently involved in media development in China and a member of the
Danish National Commission for UNESCO.
Lawson Brigham
Lawson Brigham has been a Distinguished Professor of Geography & Arctic Policy at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks since 2008. He is a former chair of the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment of the Arctic
Council, an intergovernmental forum of the eight Arctic nations, and former vice-chair of the Council’s
working group on Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME). He was also a contributing
author to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.
Captain Brigham has participated in ten Antarctic expeditions and eight icebreaker voyages in the Arctic
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Ocean, and has sailed aboard icebreakers in Alaska, the Great Lakes, the Baltic Sea, the Russian Arctic, and around
Antarctica. He has also served as a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the U.S. Naval War College,
and as a faculty member of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, in the Office of Naval Research Chair in Arctic
Marine Science (1996–97). His research interests for more than three decades have included studies of the Russian
Arctic, ice navigation, sea ice, and satellite remote sensing of the Polar Regions
He received a PhD in polar oceanography from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and an M.S. in management
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Brigham is also a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval War College.
Adam Chamberlain
Adam Chamberlain is a partner with the Canadian national law firm of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. Adam
is an active member of the firm’s northern practice group, Team North, and serves as the National
Leader of the firm’s Climate Change Group. He is active in a number of areas including the firm’s
Environmental, Energy and Aboriginal practices.
He acts as counsel on an array of large infrastructure projects across Canada, including the Arctic.
Adam’s role as an advisor to significant projects is varied and includes advice with respect to issues
ranging from aboriginal consultation to implications of technical project details.
Adam is called to the bar and practices law in Nunavut and Ontario.
Sanjay Chaturvedi
Dr. Sanjay Chaturvedi is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for the Study of Geopolitics,
Department of Political Science & Honorary Director of the Centre for the Study of Mid-West and
Central Asia, Panjab University, Chandigarh. His area of specialization is the theory and practice of
geopolitics; with special reference to Polar Regions and the Indian Ocean Region. He is currently
focusing on the geopolitics of climate change. Chaturvedi has recently been selected as a Fellow of the
India-China Institute (2010-2012) at the New School, New York (USA). He is also an Associate Fellow of
Asia Society, New York. He serves on the international editorial board of leading peer-review journals Geopolitics,
Political Geography and Co-operation and Conflict. He is the founding co-editor of the newly launched flagship journal of
Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG), Journal of Indian Ocean Region and the Regional Editor of The Polar Journal. His
publications in peer-reviewed journals include Polar Regions: A Political Geography (John Wiley & Sons, 1996).
Chaturvedi is a member of the Core Group of Experts on Antarctica and Southern Ocean set up by the Ministry of Earth
Sciences, Government of India, and has been a member of the Indian delegation to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative. He
is also a member of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Social Science Action Group.
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Susan Chatwood
Susan Chatwood is the Executive and Scientific Director of the Institute for Circumpolar Health
Research in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, President of the Canadian Society for Circumpolar
Health and Secretary for the International Union for Circumpolar Health. She is an Assistant Professor
in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from University of
British Columbia, holds a Masters in Epidemiology from McGill University and is conducting her PhD in
the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. Susan has an interest in building
sustainable health research capacity in northern regions and enhancing circumpolar perspectives. She has spent most of
her career in remote and northern communities, working in the clinical setting, public health and research. Her current
projects within the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research have strived to build northern capacity and include the
development of research infrastructure within the Arctic Research Infrastructure Program, development of ethics
guidelines for the Northwest Territories, the establishment of a data center which will include a branch office of
Statistics Canada Regional Data Center, Circumpolar Health Observatory and circumpolar health library. Research
projects promoted are participatory and engage decision makers, northern stakeholders and practitioners with a focus
on health systems, food security, climate change and homelessness.
Ryan Dean
Ryan joined the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation as a Research Assistant and is now a
Researcher and Policy Analyst with the Arctic Security Program. Ryan recently completed a Master of
Arts degree at Queen’s University with a focus on Canadian foreign and defence policy. While there,
Ryan was able to study at the Royal Military College, furthering his knowledge of security studies.
During his undergraduate studies at Carleton University, Ryan held an internship on Parliament Hill.
Cindy Dickson
Cindy Dickson is of Gwitchin and Tlingit descent and is a member of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.
Cindy has worked for the Council of Yukon First Nations for the past twelve years. She is the director of
Circumpolar Relations and the founding director of the Arctic Athabaskan Council (AAC). AAC is an
international Indigenous organization that focuses on environmental issues that may affect the health
and well-being of Athabaskan peoples in the arctic and sub-arctic regions of North America. The Council
of Yukon First Nations is the central political organization for First Nation peoples of the Yukon. It has
been in existence since 1973 and continues to serve the needs of First Nations within the Yukon and most recently the
Mackenzie delta. Currently Ms. Dickson’s work centers on climate change vulnerabilities, adaptation, traditional
knowledge and food security issues in the north.
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Cindy participated in the development of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), a four -year comprehensive
analysis of the impacts and consequences of climate variability and changes across the Arctic region. During the
assessment period, Cindy established the Elder Panel on Climate Change. The Elder Panel was tasked to contribute their
knowledge of climate change observations. Cindy also established the Indigenous Issues Committee (IIC) for the
University of the Arctic. The IIC provides a mechanism for northern indigenous peoples and organizations to participate
at Arctic Council meetings.
Klaus Dodds
Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and Visiting Fellow at St
Cross College, University of Oxford. He is editor of The Geographical Journal and specializes in the
geopolitics of the Polar Regions, popular culture and international politics and the history of
geopolitics/geography. His polar work, initially in and on the Antarctic and more recently the Arctic, is
concerned with the inter-relationship between territory, sovereignty, resources and governance. He is
the author and editor of a number of books including Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture,
Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (2007), and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (2002).
Dodds’ interest in the Arctic Council is twofold. He is interested in what is meant when we identify the 'Arctic' in the
context of governance debates. How that space is defined, understood and indeed challenged is clearly critical in
shaping both the present discourses and practices associated with the Arctic Council and critically in anticipating the
future. Second, he is eager to investigate further how, why and, critically, where debates over the merits (or otherwise)
of an Arctic treaty (with reference to the Antarctic Treaty) were mobilized and even now marginalized.
Else Berit Eikeland
Else Eikeland is the current Norwegian Ambassador to Canada and speaks warmly of the northern
connections between both countries. She joined the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989 as
the Second Secretary, Norwegian Embassy, Manila, Philippines. Since then she has been stationed in
San Francisco, Oslo and London.
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Kirt Kootoo Ejesiak
Kirt Ejesiak is Vice-President of International Affairs of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (Canada). Kirt has
represented Nunavut in many capacities at the regional, national and international level. He has been
chairman on the board of the Iqaluit Museum, served as deputy mayor of the city, and was appointed
vice-chair of Nunavut Trust. Kirt has worked for NTI and Kakivak. He has also worked in the past for ITK,
Pauktuutit and served as President of the Inuit Non-Profit Housing Board in Ottawa. Kirt is currently
working in Iqaluit as the Creative Director and CEO of Uqsiq Communications, a multi-media
communications firm. He is also a managing partner of Gallery by the Red Boat. In 2005, Kirt was
awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to attend the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He completed
his Masters of Public Administration, and in so doing became Nunavut’s first student at Harvard. One of Kirt’s research
areas at Harvard was circumpolar mobility rights for Inuit and he maintains a global perspective on many issues.
Terry Fenge
Based in Ottawa, Dr. Terry Fenge is the Principal of Terry Fenge Consulting Incorporated specializing in
aboriginal rights and interests, environmental affairs, and national international public policy in the
circumpolar Arctic and beyond. Dr. Fenge took the position of Director of Research and later Executive
Director at the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC). From 1985 to 1993 he was Director of
Research and Senior Negotiator for the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut (TFN), the Inuit organization
that negotiated the 1993 Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. From 1996 to 2006 he was Director of
Research and Strategic Council to the Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. He is currently the
Senior Policy Advisor to the Arctic Athabaskan Council. Since 2000 he has also worked with the Nunavut Tunngavik
Incorporated (NTI) to implement the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. In addition he has worked with the Russian
Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) the Inuit Heritage Trust (IHT), and the Circumpolar
Conservation Union (CCU).
Sara French
Sara joined the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation as a Research Assistant and is now the Arctic
Security Program Officer. She recently completed a Master of Arts degree at Queen’s University with a
focus on Canadian foreign policy. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen’s and spent her
first year of studies at the International Study Centre at Hertsmonceux Castle in the United Kingdom.
Sara has worked as a Research Intern at the Department of Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory
Reform in the United Kingdom, while participating in the Hansard Research Scholar’s Programme at
the London School of Economics. She has also interned at the Mission of Canada to the European Union in Brussels.
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Marcos Gomez
Marcos Gomez is currently the Ambassador for Polar and Oceanic Affairs to Spain. A former
ambassador to New Zealand, having joined the diplomatic service in 1990 after serving as an advisor in
the cabinet of Prime Minister. He has been stationed at the Spanish Embassy in Russia, Argentina, at
the United Nations in Geneva.
Piotr Graczyk
Piotr Graczyk is a PhD student at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science of the University of
Warsaw, Poland and researcher at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He holds MA in international
relations with major in security and strategic studies from the University of Warsaw. In 2008 and 2009
he worked as a policy assistant (internship) in the Arctic Council Secretariat in Tromsø. His main
research interests include the role of the Arctic Council in regulating shipping in the northern waters,
Arctic governance structure and its impact on the Arctic states foreign and security policies and
emerging security environment in the Arctic. He is preparing a doctoral thesis on the impact of international institutions
on security in the Arctic. His extensive study on observers within the Arctic Council has been published in “The Yearbook
of Polar Law” in 2011. Piotr is associated with the Geopolitics in the High North programme and serves as an expert on
the Arctic Council at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also a member the Social Science and Polish Polar
Research History Team at the Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His Master’s dissertation
on strategic significance of the Arctic in perspective of the region states’ interests was awarded the highest prize in the
Polish Foreign Minister competition for the best Master’s dissertation in international relations in 2009.
Franklyn Griffiths
Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto, Franklyn Griffiths is Professor Emeritus of
Political Science and George Ignatieff Chair Emeritus of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of
Toronto. His research and policy interests centre on the Arctic region, Russia, and international
security affairs. Among his authored, co-authored and edited publications are Khrushchev and the
Arms Race (1966), Interest Groups in Soviet Politics (1971), “A Northern Foreign Policy” (1979), Politics
of the Northwest Passage (1987), Arctic Alternatives: Civility or Militarism in the Circumpolar North
(1992), Strong and Free: Canada and the New Sovereignty (1997), “Built to Last: Conditionality and What It Can Do for
the Disposition of Russian Weapon-Grade Plutonium” (2002), and “Camels in the Arctic? Climate Change as Inuit See It”
(The Walrus, November 2007). His most recent work is Canada and the Changing Arctic: Sovereignty, Security and
Stewardship (co-author 2011), and “Arctic Security: The Indirect Approach,” in Arctic Security in an Age of Climate
Change (2011). At various times he has been director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the
University of Toronto, senior policy advisor in the Office of the Secretary of State for External Affairs, visiting professor
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at Stanford University, visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (Scott Polar Research Institute), senior research
fellow at the Canadian International Council, visiting professor at the Canadian Forces College, Toronto, and
McNaughton-Vanier Visiting Scholar at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario (2009-2010). Professor Griffiths
retired from the University of Toronto in 2001. In addition to his work on Arctic and international security issues, he is
preparing to write a book on the civilities and incivilities of Western civilization.
Hannu Halinen
Hannu Halinen is the Ambassador for Arctic Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. He is
also Secretary-General of Finland’s Advisory Board for Arctic Affairs and a member of the Arctic Expert
Committee of the Nordic Council.
Morten Hoglund
Morten Hoglund is Chair of the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region. He is also
a Member of Parliament in Norway, representing the Progress Party. In 2009, he was head of the
Norwegian delegation to the Arctic parliamentary cooperation. From 2005-2009 he was head of the
Norwegian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and he was Second Deputy Head of the
Norwegian Delegation for Relations with the European Parliament.
Rob Huebert
Rob Huebert is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of
Calgary. He is also the associate director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He was a
senior research fellow of the Canadian International Council and a fellow with Canadian Defence and
Foreign Affairs Institute. In November 2010, he was appointed as a director to the Canadian Polar
Commission Dr. Huebert has taught at Memorial University, Dalhousie University, and the University of
Manitoba. His area of research interests include: international relations, strategic studies, the Law of the Sea, maritime
affairs, Canadian foreign and defence policy, and circumpolar relations. He publishes on the issue of Canadian Arctic
Security, Maritime Security, and Canadian Defence. His work has appeared in International Journal; Canadian Foreign
Policy; Isuma- Canadian Journal of Policy Research and Canadian Military Journal. He was co-editor of Commercial
Satellite Imagery and United Nations Peacekeeping and Breaking Ice: Canadian Integrated Ocean Management in the
Canadian North. His most recent book, written with Whitney Lackenbauer and Franklyn Griffiths, is Canada and the
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Changing Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship. He also comments on Canadian security and Arctic issues in
both the Canadian and international media.
Peter Ittinuar
Peter Ittinuar was born in Chesterfield Inlet, then in the Northwest Territories, now in Nunavut. His
father was a Special Constable with the R.C.M.P, with the detachment in Chesterfield Inlet.
When a nickel mine opened in nearby Rankin Inlet, Peter and his family moved to Rankin, where his
father worked in the mine, for better wages than the R.C.M.P. could offer. During those years in
Rankin, Peter was subjected to some intelligence tests, along with other Inuit children, brought in by
the Federal Government, to choose 2 or 3 young Inuit children for schooling in the Far South. Peter was one of the 3
chosen, and went to Ottawa to take up residence in a foster home and attending public school at the age of 12.
Peter eventually went on to university, teaching at university, and taking various jobs throughout his life, leading to his
current position as a negotiator for the Negotiations and Reconciliation Division of the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. His
current duties include negotiating claims in the northern part of Ontario.
Peter has been a teacher (Associate Professor), pilot, hunter, trapper, fisherman, CBC journalist, magazine journalist,
film maker, author, worked for the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (the Inuit national organization) and a Member of Parliament.
Infused throughout his careers has been the singular thought of creating a homeland where his people would enjoy a
degree of autonomy, and Peter assisted this road to Nunavut throughout his life.
Anja Jeffrey
Anja Jeffrey is a Danish national and has for the past eight years been involved in circumpolar issues
and is Director of the Centre for the North. Until 2009, she was a career diplomat with the Danish
Foreign Service, and has held postings in the United States and in Canada at the Danish Embassy in
Ottawa as the Deputy Ambassador. From 2007-2009, she was the Arctic Resources Manager at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen travelling in all circumpolar countries and connecting with
governments, communities, businesses and NGOs. Anja also helped organize and negotiate the 2008
Ilulissat Conference in Greenland on the Arctic Ocean. Her last position was with the Standards Council of Canada
where she negotiated the allocation of resources for the standards development system to begin risk assessments and
implementation of codes, standards and related instruments in Canada's North in the light of climate change and
related infrastructure challenges.
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Kyla Kakfwi-Scott
Kyla recently joined BHP Billiton EKATI Diamond Mine as Team Leader - Community Development,
where she is responsible for the implementation of sustainable community development projects. Kyla
also leads the implementation of BHP Billiton's Socio-Economic Agreement with the Government of the
Northwest Territories, as well as its Impact and Benefit Agreements with Aboriginal stakeholders. Kyla
sees a need to increase opportunities for dialogue and cultural understanding in order to live
respectfully amongst each other. To that end, she served for the last two years as the Program
Manager for Dechinta: Bush University & Centre for Research and Learning. This land-based, university accredited
program covers critical Northern issues, from a Northern perspective, taught by elders and academic experts. Kyla is a
Jane Glassco Arctic Fellow, an Advisor to the Small Change Fund, and serves on the Board of United Way NWT.
Paula Kankaanpää
Paula Kankaanpää has been Director of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland since
2000, where she acted also as Vice-Rector in 2006-09. Professor Kankaanpää has long experience on
science and policy interface as worked for the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy, the Arctic
Council, the Barents Council and the Antarctic co-operation in the Finnish Ministry of the Environment
since the beginning of the 1990s. She was a research fellow at the Dickey Center of the Dartmouth
College, USA, in 2010. She is the chair of the Advisory Board of the Finnish Meteorological Institute and a member of the
Arctic Committee of Finland lead by Prime Minister's Office. She chaired the IASC Regional Board in 2000-02 and she
acted as the Deputy Secretary of CAFF Working Group of the Arctic Council in 1999 in Akureyri, Iceland. She made her
PhD about sea ice pressure ridges when working as a research scientist in the Finnish Institute of Marine Research in the
end of 80’s and in University Alaska Fairbanks in 1990.
Timo Koivurova
Timo Koivurova is a Research Professor and Director of the Northern Institute for Environment and
Minority Law, at the Arctic Centre/University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. Increasingly, his
research work addresses the interplay between different levels of environmental law, legal status of
indigenous peoples, law of the sea in the Arctic waters, integrated maritime policy in the EU, the role of
law in mitigating/adapting to climate change, the function and role of the Arctic Council in view of its
future challenges and the possibilities for an Arctic treaty.
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Whitney Lackenbauer
P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ph.D., is associate professor and chair of the department of history at St.
Jerome’s University (University of Waterloo), Waterloo, Ontario, who specializes in Arctic sovereignty
and security issues, Aboriginal-state relations, and Northern history. A former Fulbright Scholar at the
Centre for Canadian Studies at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University,
and Canadian International Council Research Fellow, he is currently co-chairing the Arctic Peoples and
Security Working Group of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation-Munk School of Global Affairs
Arctic Security Program. Whitney’s recent books include Canada and the Changing Arctic: Sovereignty, Security and
Stewardship, (2011), Canada and Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives (2011), The Canadian Forces
and Arctic Sovereignty: Debating Roles, Interests, and Requirements, 1968-1974 (2010), A Commemorative History of
Aboriginal People in the Canadian Military (2010), and Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North (2008), which
won the 2009 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy). His forthcoming books include Canada’s
Rangers: Selected Stories, 1942-2012 and The Canadian Rangers: A Living History.
John Lamb
John Lamb was the founder and, from 1983-1994, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Arms
Control and Disarmament, which with Gordon Foundation support, played a prominent role in
Canada’s early work to establish the Arctic Council. After a period of consulting on Arctic issues
(including co-authoring the original draft of Canada’s northern foreign policy framework, A Northern
Foreign Policy For Canada: Draft Policy Statement), he and his family moved to Iqaluit where for nearly
10 years he served as CEO of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI), director of the Government of
Nunavut’s devolution division and finally as the Government of Nunavut’s Assistant Deputy Minister of Environment.
Semi-retired and living in Nova Scotia since 2008, he continues to assist the Government of Nunavut on devolution and
various other files.
Bridget Larocque
Bridget Larocque, President of the Inuvik Metis Council, holds the current Chairmanship of the NWT
Sport and Recreation Council and the NWT Victim's Assistance Committee. She was a former
Chairperson of the NWT Metis Development Corporation. Ms. Larocque is the Executive Director of
Gwich'in Council International which is a Permanent Participant of the Arctic Council. Bridget Larocque
has 15 years in the field of Social Work throughout the NWT. She was the former Finance and
Administration Officer for the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board. She's has also
worked in areas of industry such as tourism and economic development.
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Erik Vilstrup Lorenzen
Ambassador Erik Vilstrup Lorenzen, began his post as Danish Ambassador to Canada in 2009. Before
this post he served as the Chief Advisor to then Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, on European
Union matters, from 2006-2009. In 2005, Lorenzen worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Head of
Department of EU Policy. In 2003, he was Head of Department of Policy Planning in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. In 2001, Lorenzen was the European Policy Adviser in the Danish Embassy in London
and before that he was posted at the EU-representation in Brussels. Erik Vilstrup Lorenzen has a degree
in political science from the University of Aarhus in Denmark and has studied political science and journalism in the U.S.
Natalia Loukacheva
Dr. Natalia Loukacheva is a Research Associate at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of
Toronto, Adjunct Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Canada), and Visiting
Professor of Polar Law in Iceland. She was the Founding Director of Graduate Polar Law Program and
taught law at the University of Akureyri, Iceland (2008-2010). She holds a Doctor of Juridical Science
(S.J.D.) from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (Canada) (2004) and a Doctor of Philosophy (law)
from the Urals State Law Academy, Russian Federation (1999).
Dr. Loukacheva specializes in international and comparative constitutional law, with research interest in the Arctic. She
has received awards in Canada and abroad, and has been engaged in different initiatives dealing with legal and political
issues in the Arctic (e.g., chairs International Thematic Network group on Legal Issues in the Arctic of the Northern
Research Forum and Arctic governance group of the Arctic Law Thematic Network of the University of the Arctic). She is
the author of The Arctic Promise: Legal and Political Autonomy of Greenland and Nunavut (University of Toronto Press,
2007), the editor of the Polar Law Textbook (Nordic Council of Ministers, Tema Nord 538: 2010), special editor of the
Yearbook of Polar Law (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Vol. 2, 2010), special editor of the Arctic Review on Law and Politics
(Gyldendal Akademisk Publishers, Norway, Vol. 2, 2012), and has numerous publications about the issues of governance
in the North, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, and legal challenges in the Polar Regions.
James Manicom
James Manicom is affiliated with the Asian Institute in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the
University of Toronto and is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
His current research project explores the politics of maritime space in East Asia and the Arctic. His
research interests include East Asian international relations and strategic studies, maritime security,
energy security, nationalism and territorial disputes.
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Erik J. Molenaar
Erik J. Molenaar is senior research associate at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS),
Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of
Tromsø, Norway. After having completed his PhD on ‘Coastal State Jurisdiction over Vessel-Source
Pollution’ (1998) and his tasks as assistant rapporteur to the International Law Association’s
Committee on Coastal State Jurisdiction Relating to Marine Pollution, he broadened his research field
with international fisheries law and the international law relating to the Antarctic and Arctic. In
addition to fundamental research, he has also provided juridical advice to inter alia various Netherlands and Norwegian
Ministries, shipping companies, UNEP, the European Parliament and the European Commission. His research has led to
his participation in various diplomatic conferences and other intergovernmental meetings, including the annual
meetings of several regional fisheries management organizations. Since 2010, his research has a specific focus on
adapting governance and regulation in the marine Arctic to climate change.
Annika E. Nilsson
Annika E. Nilsson has a PhD in environmental science and over 20 years of professional experience as a
science writer. She currently holds a position as Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment
Institute, Stockholm Sweden. Her current research focuses on Arctic environmental change and its
implications for society, including international politics. It includes specifically looking at how rapid
environmental changes affect the political landscape and how developments in the Arctic challenge
many mainstream theories in international relations. She has also studied how international
cooperation influences knowledge production, including a PhD dissertation about the Arctic Climate
Impact Assessment. In addition to the Arctic focus, Nilsson also carries out research on social learning and
communication at the science-policy interface, where current work includes studies on climate and biodiversity policy
development in the context of multilevel governance. As a science writer she has participated in several assessments
about the Arctic, focusing on pollution and on human development.
Innuteq Holm Olsen
Mr. Inuuteq Holm Olsen is the Deputy Minister for the Department of Foreign Affairs of the
Government of Greenland since July 2006 and served as Acting Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
since December 2004. He was the Head of Department from September 2003. Inuuteq Holm Olsen
began his career at the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1996 and has been the Private Secretary to the
Premier from 1997 till 1999. He worked at the Danish Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen and was posted
at the Greenland Representation in Brussels from 2000 till 2003.
Mr. Inuuteq Holm Olsen earned a B.A in Political Science from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1994 and a M.A. in
International Affairs from The George Washington University in 1996.
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Besides having the responsibility of Greenland's foreign affairs he has served as guest lecturer and speaker at several
universities and international conferences on topics related to Greenland and politics in the Arctic. He was an expert
adviser in the joint Danish-Greenlandic Commission on Self-Government regarding foreign affairs 2006 - 2008. He was
also a member of the 2008 Danish Defence Commission representing the Government of Greenland.
Tom Paddon
Born in Labrador, Canada, Tom has more than 20 years of experience building and operating projects in
the north. He was most recently the General Manager of Vale Newfoundland and Labrador, operator
of the Voisey’s Bay mine and concentrator project in northern Labrador.
Tom held several management positions within Vale since joining the company in 1997. During the
early days of the project’s development, Tom played a large part in building the relationships that were
to become critical to the company’s success in the region. Tom was the Manager of Aboriginal Affairs & Labrador
Human Resources for about 10 years and became General Manager of Vale’s Labrador Operations in February of 2007.
In July of 2009, Tom was appointed General Manager of Vale Newfoundland and Labrador.
Tom played a pivotal role in negotiating Impact and Benefit Agreements with Innu Nation and the Nunatsiavut
Government. On behalf of Vale he also led the negotiations to develop a Shipping Agreement with the Labrador Inuit.
When construction began, Tom had the difficult task of turning words written in legal agreements into reality. He
assembled a local team in Labrador that worked tirelessly to address the expectations of aboriginal groups,
communities, businesses and politicians.
As a result, the Voisey’s Bay project is recognized across the country as having raised the bar on employment, business
and corporate responsibility for resource developments occurring on aboriginal lands.
Tom is married to Donna, with two children, Harry and Emma.
Drue Pearce
Drue Pearce has more than 25 years of experience in government affairs, public relations, natural
resources and energy policy and regulation, having served in the Alaska State Legislature, the private
sector, and in the Immediate Office of the Secretary at the Department of the Interior and at the Office
of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects. Pearce served in the Alaska
State Legislature for 17 years, presiding as Senate President for two terms. She served as Chair and on
the Executive Committee of The Energy Council from 1989 to 2001. She was the American Co-Chair of
the US West Coast – Russian Far East Business Commission Ad Hoc Working Group for four years and hosted and signed
official protocols with both the Sakhalin and Khabarovsk regional Dumas while Senate President.
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Tony Penikett
Tony Penikett is the author of "Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making in British Columbia."
Currently a Vancouver- based mediator, Penikett was deputy minister of negotiations for the British
Columbia government and, later, deputy labour minister. He was also senior advisor on selfgovernment policy to Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow and has acted as SFU's Centre for
Dialogue's Senior Fellow on First Nations' Treaty Issues. He spent 18 years as part of the Yukon
Legislative Assembly including 8 years as its premier. Penikett has been actively involved in aboriginal rights
negotiations for decades.
Madeleine Redfern
Born in Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit) in 1967, Madeleine Redfern was elected Mayor of Iqaluit on
December 13th, 2010. Redfern holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Victoria in
conjunction with the Akitsiraq Law School. Following graduation, Redfern served as the first Inuk law
clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, under Justice Louise Charron.
An outspoken member of the Iqaluit community as a social justice advocate and businessperson,
Redfern has dedicated much of her 20-year career to advocating for the needs and values of Inuit and aboriginal
peoples. Her work and passion has taken her to varied roles within both non-governmental and government sectors, in
Northern and Southern Canada. Redfern is a founding member of the Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre and a past
president of Tungasuvvingat Inuit Community Centre, both in Ottawa; a co-ordinator with Iqaluit Restorative Justice; a
former secretary-treasurer of the Inuit Non-Profit Housing Corporation; and the Inuit representative on Kagita Mikam,
an Ontario-based centre for aboriginal employment. Recently, Redfern served as executive director with the Qikitani
Truth Commission, an Inuit-led initiative focused on documenting Northern events between 1950 and 1965 through oral
history.
Redfern strives to be engaged with her community as a candid advocate for access to health, educational, and social
resources in the North. She interacts readily and honestly with media and her constituents, often communicating
through social networking sites such as Twitter.
Jennifer Rhemann
Jennifer Rhemann has worked in various science support capacities for the U.S. Antarctic Program at
McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and she studied polar sciences via the U.S. National Science Foundation
Polar Education Program and California State University. She holds a Bachelor of Antarctic Studies with
Honours from the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, where her
research focused on the development and implementation of policies regarding non-native species in
the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions. Her research focus in the Polar Law Program at the University
of Akureyri, Iceland addresses identification of risk in the Arctic. Her research interests include the science/policy
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interface, governance of the Polar Regions, and implementation of policy. She is a Council Co-Chair for the Association
of Early Career Polar Scientists (APECS) and was co-convener for Panel 4-5 (Arctic and Antarctic Governance and
Economics) at the International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference.
Sheila Riordon
Sheila Riodon, Director General for the Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development Bureau, is
Canada’s Senior Arctic Official in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. She is
responsible for the formulation and delivery of Canada’s foreign policy across a wide range of
sustainable development issues including related to climate change and international energy. She is the
Government’s senior representative to the Arctic Council and leads for Canada on a range of
Circumpolar issues. Previously, Ms. Riordon held a number of positions in the Government of Canada in
the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, the Department of Natural Resources, the Privy Council and the
Department of Finance. Beyond environment and energy policy she has considerable experience in financial sector
policy, tax policy and international trade.
Nikolas Sellheim
Nikolas Sellheim is a PhD candidate at the University of Lapland in the Faculty of Law Doctoral Program
Legal Cultures in Transnational World (LeCTra) and a researcher at the Northern Institute on
Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Finland. His PhD research
deals with the role of the EU in Arctic governance with a special focus on the strict anti-sealing and
anti-whaling stance of the EU paying attention to its cultural and legal implications both in the Arctic
and the EU. Having a background in Scandinavian/Northern European Studies, Circumpolar Studies and
Polar Law, his research has focused on land right issues of the Sámi in northern Finland, especially in regards to reindeer
husbandry and forestry as well as the legitimacy of the cooperation in the Barents Region. Furthermore, Nikolas
Sellheim participated in the “Arctic Footprint and Policy Assessment Project” as well as the “EU competences affecting
the Arctic” project, both of which NIEM played a key role in. Nikolas Sellheim also worked for the Arctic Council’s
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Working Group as well as the University of the Arctic’s (UArctic)
International Secretariat and he is the co-Chair of the Membership and Involvement Committee of the Association of
Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).
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Janice Gross Stein
Janice Gross Stein is the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and
Associate Chair and Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation within the University
of Toronto's political science department.
She received her undergraduate degree from McGill University, her master’s from Yale University, and
returned to McGill for doctoral studies. She joined University of Toronto in 1982 and was named a
University Professor in 1996.
Stein is the author of over 100 books, book chapters and articles. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she has served
on many international advisory panels, including the Working Group on Middle East Negotiations at the United States
Institute of Peace; the Committee on International Security of the American Academy of Science; and the Advisory
Group on Cross-Cultural Negotiation. She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and has been a Trudeau Fellow. She was
awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate.
She is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded the Order of
Canada and the Order of Ontario.
Daniel T’seleie
Daniel T'seleie lives in Yellowknife and works as Director of Lands and Environment with the Dene
Nation. His previous experience has included work on climate change mitigation and adaptation with
territorial and national NGOs. Daniel T'seleie is a member of the K'asho Got'ine First Nation from Fort
Good Hope, Northwest Territories. Daniel is researching climate change in the North and how the
territorial government can affect meaningful progress on this issue. Policy research will focus on setting
an ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction target and implementing a territorial carbon tax.
However, this will be framed in a broader context acknowledging that carbon pricing is not a real solution to climate
change; the only solution is to stop burning fossil fuels, and the territorial government should be a leader in
implementing this long-term vision.
Anton Vasiliev
Anton Vasiliev is currently the Ambassador at Large, Arctic Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Russian Federation. He joined the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976 with postings in Beijing.
In 1996 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Department for Security and Disarmament Affairs,
MFA, Moscow and Head of the Russian Delegation to the Joint Compliance and Inspections Commission
of the START Treaty. From 2002-2007 he became the Deputy Head of Mission of the Russian
Federation in Geneva, Switzerland, representing Russia at the Conference on Disarmament. In January
of 2008 he became the Ambassador at Large (Arctic Cooperation), MFA of the Russian Federation, Senior Arctic Official
of Russia in the Arctic Council and the Senior Official of Russia in the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC).
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Philippe Zeller
Phillipe Zeller is the current French Ambassador to Canada. He has been appointed as Head of the
Cooperation Mission at the Embassy of France in Seychelles (1984-1986), Second Counsellor at the
Embassy of France in Morocco (1986-1988), Ambassador-at-Large for Environmental Issues (20002001), Ambassador of France to Hungary (2004-2007) and then as Ambassador of France to the
Republic of Indonesia from 2008 to 2011. During the same period, he also represented France in the
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and at the General Secretariat of the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations. He has also worked at the Ministry of Research and Technology as Diplomatic Counsellor for Minister
Hubert Curien (1988-1992) and has served as Prefect for the Department of Ariège from 1997 to 2000.
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