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The Balsillie School community extends warmest congratulations to Aviva Silburt who successfully defended her dissertation, “Mapping the Complexity of Mining & Peacebuilding in Guatemala”. Special thanks to Aviva’s supervisors Dr. Neil Craik and Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, committee members Dr. Fred Bird and Dr. Reina Neufeldt, Internal/External, Dr. Daniel McCarthy and External, Dr. Gearoid Miller.

The Balsillie School community extends warmest congratulations to Lucy Hinton who successfully defended her dissertation, “Front-of-Pack Labelling in the Caribbean Community: Power and Policy in Regional Standard Setting”. Special thanks to Lucy’s supervisor Dr. Jennifer Clapp, committee members Dr. Andrea Collins and Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick, Internal/External, Dr. Bruce Frayne and External, Dr. Matias Margulis.

The Balsillie School community extends warmest congratulations to Cynthia Leal Garza who successfully defended her dissertation, “Was Bretton Woods Working for the Common Good? Mexico’s Advocacy to Consider the Human Implications of the International Monetary and Financial Systems at the Bretton Woods Conference”. Special thanks to Cynthia’s supervisor Dr. Jasmin Habib, committee members Dr. Andrew

The BSIA once again warmly congratulates PhD candidate Jeremy Wagner and recent MIPP graduate Zack Ahmed for being named one of four Canadian teams who will now compete in the Global Finals of the “Map the System” competition at Oxford University in the UK, representing Wilfrid Laurier University. Their submission, “Inside the System, Outside the Law: The Informal Food

The Balsillie School community extends warmest congratulations to Alex Suen who successfully defended his dissertation, “Political Culture: An Unexplored Factor in Climate Change Policy”. Special thanks to Alex’s supervisor Dr. Simon Dalby, committee members Dr. Angela Carter and Dr. Imre Szeman, Internal/External, Dr. Andrew Herman and External, Dr. Peter Jacques, University of Central Florida.

The Balsillie School community extends warmest congratulations to Hari KC who successfully defended his dissertation, “From a ‘Cheli’ in Nepal to a ‘Khadama’ in the Arabian Gulf Countries: the Local‐Global Entanglements and Gendered Labour Migration Governance”. Special thanks to his supervior, Dr. Jenna Hennebry, committee members Dr. Margaret Walton-Roberts and Dr. Alison Mountz, Internal/External Dr.

The BSIA warmly congratulates Faculty member and BSIA Board member Suzan Ilcan on being named University Research Chair by the University of Waterloo for a seven-year term. Her term will begin on July 1, 2022. Suzan is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and

The Balsillie School was pleased to learn that its redesigned website, balsillieschool.ca, has won two Gold Awards in the 2022 Hermes Creative Awards program. The redesigned site, which launched in November 2021, won Gold Awards in the categories “Website Overall” and “Home Page”. The site also received an Honorable Mention for its newest website element, the Experts page,

The BSIA warmly congratulates PhD candidate Jeremy Wagner and recent MIPP graduate Zack Ahmed for their submission, “Inside the System, Outside the Law: The Informal Food Economy in Nairobi, Kenya”, which has earned them a place in the National Finals of the 2022 Map the System Canada competition, representing Wilfrid Laurier University. They are among

The Balsillie School of International Affairs is delighted to be providing the coaching for the winners of the 2022 International Ideas Policy Challenge (IPIC) program, a Global Affairs Canada (GAC) initiative run in collaboration with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The objective of the IPIC program is to draw on the intellectual talent of Canadian graduate students,