Elizabeth Kolbert — Award-winning author and journalist Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture Ms. Kolbert is an observer and commentator on the crisis faced by humans in the Anthropocene for The New Yorker magazine. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) and Under a White Sky(2021) is her latest […]
Dr. Clare Haru Crowston, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia Prior to joining UBC, Dr. Crowston served as the Associate Dean for the Humanities and Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has demonstrated her commitment to academic and research excellence through […]
Dr. Stephen Poloz, Former Governor of the Bank of Canada, Special Advisor, Osler Business Law Dr. Poloz is a distinguished economist with four decades of experience in financial markets, forecasting, and economic policy. He is the author of The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future (2022). Dr. Poloz […]
Dr. Pieter Cullis, O.C. Director, Life Sciences Institute, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of BC Dr. Cullis is globally known for his contributions to the field of lipid nanoparticles. His research has contributed to the development of nanomedicines employing lipid nanoparticle delivery technology leading to five clinically approved drugs for cancer therapies, gene therapies, […]
The Vancouver Institute presents: Mr. Brendan de Caires, Executive Director, PEN Canada As head of PEN Canada for over a decade, Mr. de Caires defends freedom of expression, and helps exiled writers to establish in Canada. In this capacity Mr. de Caires has edited and co-authored country studies of Mexico, Honduras, India and Guatemala. He […]
The Vancouver Institute presents: Dr. Cécile Fabre Senior Research Fellow in Politics, All Souls College, Professor of Political Philosophy, Oxford University Dr. Fabre is a political philosopher whose research interests include theories of distributive and reparative justice, the philosophy of democracy, and the moral and political philosophy of cultural heritage. A prolific scholar, her most […]
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