Rideau Institute
Political advocacy group in Ontario, Canada
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The Rideau Institute is a non-profit independent research and advocacy group based in Ottawa. It focuses on foreign policy and defence policy issues.
AbbreviationRI
Formation2007
Typenon-profit research organization based in Canada
Legal statusactive
It was founded in January 2007.[1] It is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Personnel
Directors
- Peggy Mason, President of the Rideau Institute, former UN Ambassador for Disarmament
- Steven Staples, Vice-President of the Rideau Institute, commentator, and author of Missile Defence: Round One
- Michael Byers, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia and author of Intent for a Nation, What is Canada For?
- Bruce Campbell, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and author of numerous books and studies on Canadian public policy
- Kathleen Ruff, former Director of the British Columbia Human Rights Commission and former director of the Court Challenges Program
Senior Advisors
- Maude Barlow, author and Chairperson of The Council of Canadians
- Peter Coombes, co-founder of Ceasefire.ca and Job Evaluation Representative for CUPE
- Murray Dobbin, political commentator and author
- Walter Dorn, Associate Professor of Defence Studies, Royal Military College of Canada
- Wade Huntley, Director of the Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
- Anil Naidoo, International water policy analyst and Project Organizer of the Blue Planet Project
- Douglas Roche, author, former parliamentarian and senator (retired)
- Bill Robinson, former Program Associate, Project Ploughshares
- Erika Simpson, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Western Ontario
- Scott Sinclair, director of Trade and Investment Research Project, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Alice Slater, Director, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, NY
- Gar Pardy, former Canadian diplomat
