David M. Shribman became executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on February 3, 2003. He came to Pittsburgh from The Boston Globe where he was assistant managing editor, columnist and Washington bureau chief. He now teaches at the Max Bell School of Public Policy.

Mr. Shribman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his coverage of Washington and the American political scene. He writes a weekly column, ""My Point,"" syndicated throughout the United States, and a biweekly column for the Globe and Mail.

A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, he graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in history and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He did graduate work in European and African history at Cambridge University, England, as a Reynolds Scholar.

He served as national political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, covered Congress and national politics for The New York Times and was a member of the national staff of The Washington Star. A native of Salem, Massachusetts, he began his career at The Buffalo Evening News, where he worked on the city staff before being assigned to the paper's Washington bureau.

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Rita Trichur is an award-winning journalist. She is a Senior Business Writer and Columnist in the Report on Business. Her previous roles at The Globe and Mail include Senior Editor, Financial Services Editor, and Canadian business columnist for the Report on Business Magazine. Rita returned to Globe in July 2016 after spending about 2 ½ years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s Canada bureau. She primarily covered domestic banks and insurance companies from Toronto, but also wrote a variety of other stories about Canada for the U.S. newspaper. Prior to WSJ, Rita spent more than three years at the Globe, initially working as a general assignment reporter in the Report on Business before covering the telecom beat. Rita has also covered financial services and economics for the Toronto Star, and has held various roles at the Canadian Press and the Ottawa Sun. She got her first byline at age 6 when the Toronto Star published her short story about a fish-stealing cat and paid her $10. Rita, who also speaks French, was born in Toronto. She has a Bachelor of Journalism and Political Science and a M.A. in Canadian Studies – both from Carleton University in Ottawa.

Nathan VanderKlippe is an international correspondent for The Globe and Mail.

Prior to that, he was the Globe's Asia correspondent, based in Beijing, where his reporting took him across the region to cover political developments, social trends, international affairs, refugee crises, natural disasters and, occasionally, hockey games. He won the World Press Freedom Canada award and a National Newspaper Award for his stories on the plight of the Uyghurs in China.

In Beijing, he served multiple terms on the board of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China, including as president.

Prior to joining the Globe in 2009, VanderKlippe was a print and television correspondent in Western Canada based in Calgary, Vancouver and Yellowknife. He has covered Canada's energy industry, aboriginal issues and Canada’s north.

His reporting has been recognized by Amnesty International, the National Magazine Awards, the Canadian Association of Journalists, The Society of American Business Editors and Writers and The International China Journalists Association.

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John Yang has been an award-winning journalist for four decades. He is anchor of PBS News Weekend and a national correspondent for the PBS News Hour. Previously, he worked for NBC News, ABC News, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and The Boston Globe. Mr. Yang's assignments have included the White House, Congress, the Middle East when he was based in Jerusalem, the U.S. South when he was based in Atlanta, the Western U.S. when he was based in Los Angeles, and the American Midwest when he was based in Chicago. Mr. Yang has covered national politics since the 1984 presidential election, traveling with presidential campaigns, reporting on congressional contests and attending presidential nominating conventions. He has been honored with four George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and a national Emmy. He is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, on whose national board he served, and NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. He is a cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University and is a past member of its board of trustees. 

An international agri-food, strategic business and financial thinker, Murad founded AGT Foods in 2001, building a Canadian start-up into a global billion-dollar value-added, plant-based protein company supplying pulses, staple foods and ingredients to customers around the globe.

Murad has a varied experience in board roles including appointments to the Industry Strategy Council of the Government of Canada in 2020; Chair, Government of Canada National Agri-Food Strategy Roundtable; Chair of the SME Advisory Board for Canada’s Trade Minister; Chair, Executive Committee, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; the Board of Pulse Canada and as Board Chair of Economic Development Regina. Murad’s current Board appointments include the Canadian Pulse and Special Crops Trade Association, the Protein Industries Canada Supercluster, the Century Initiative and the Board of Directors of Saudi Arabia Milling Company, the recently privatized flour mills of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Murad is also a graduate of the Rottman Institute of Corporate Directors ICD course.

Murad is a passionate advocate of Canadian agriculture speaking extensively on the opportunities and challenges facing the Canada’s agriculture sector. Murad is also passionate about entrepreneurs, championing compassionate entrepreneurism and working to expand female, youth and First Nations participation in business start-ups, advocating the role of entrepreneurs in driving social change and innovation in the new global economy.
Murad has been recognized with a number of awards including the 2024 ABEX Hall of Fame, the 2024 the 2024 USask Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award, 2021 ABEX Business Leader of the Year, 2020 Globe and Mail “Innovator CEO of the Year”, the 2021 Canadian Western Agribition “CWA Top 50 in Canadian Agriculture”, the 2017 Saskatchewan Order of Merit, a University of Regina Honorary Degree, the 2017 “Oslo Business for Peace” Honouree, 2017 EY “World Entrepreneur of the Year”, 2016 UN Association of Canada “Global Citizen Laureate”, PROFITGuide Magazine’s “30 Most Fabulous Entrepreneurs of the Past 30 Years” list, Globe & Mail “Canada’s Top 40 under 40” and the Western Producer “44 Innovators Who Shaped Prairie Agriculture”.

Whether it is the latest foreign policy debate or the inner workings of the White House, David Frum offers refreshing and clear insights of complicated issues of the day. He provides fascinating insight into what political outcomes mean for specific audiences around the world in addressing geo-political issues or global and international affairs. He is currently a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of multiple New York Times Bestsellers. David also appears often on MSNBC, BBC, CBC, and CNN.

Brenda Swick is a partner in the International Trade Group at Cassels. One of Canada’s leading practitioners in international trade and investment law, Brenda also offers extensive experience in government contracting, anti-money laundering compliance, anti-corruption enforcement & compliance, and government relations.

Brenda’s International trade practice focuses on economic sanctions, export, import and technology transfer controls, defence trade controls, blocking measures (Cuba), national security measures, trade remedies (anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard investigations) Canadian customs law and compliance with forced labour laws.

She also has an active international trade and investment protection practice. She assists clients in understanding how to use international trade agreements to protect and promote their businesses and investments at home and abroad under Canada’s myriad of international trade and investment agreements, including: the NAFTA, CPTPP, CETA and the WTO.

Brenda offers extensive expertise in representing clients in anti¬dumping, safeguards and countervailing duty investigations before the Canada Border Services Agency, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT), and the Federal Court.
For over 20 years, Brenda has successfully participated in high-profile cases and has advised governments and private sector clients in a host of WTO and NAFTA dispute settlement proceedings. The Government of Canada appointed Brenda as an expert arbitrator under the dispute settlement provisions of the of the Canada US Mexico Trade Agreement.

Former counsel with the CITT and the Department of Justice, Brenda has represented clients in some of Canada’s highest-profile trade disputes in softwood lumber, automotives, steel, dairy products, alcoholic beverages, baby food, natural resources, and energy.

As a Senior Director, Ms. Hurley is responsible for the oversight of both U.S. import and export projects. Ms. Hurley reviews her clients’ business data, models and practices to assist in determining areas of risk, while also offering solutions for compliance, penalty mitigation and risk management.

Ms. Hurley’s expertise includes the development and implementation of import and export compliance programs, export licensing requirement determinations, supply chain security review, preparation, submission and oversight of penalty mitigation projects, as well as assistance with U.S. Trade Remedies, including Antidumping/Countervailing Duty and Intellectual Property orders. She also regularly works with issues involving HTSUS classification, NAFTA and other FTAs, country of origin, and proper appraisement (valuation) of merchandise for Customs purposes.

Ms. Hurley is well versed in the application and operational activities associated with EAR and ITAR requirements. Her experience includes expertise in registration, license application, license management and extraterritorial controls for foreign companies of products and services covered under various categories within the CCL and USML. She has also assisted exporters with ECCN and USML classification, commodity jurisdiction, the preparation of General Correspondence and Advisory Opinions, and the preparation and submission of voluntary disclosures.

As Executive Director of Future Borders Coalition, Laura Dawson works with a binational coalition of government and industry leaders in order to build better borders for travel and trade. In recognition of this work, she was listed as one of Canada’s Top 50 Foreign Policy Influencers of 2024 by the Hill Times in recognition of her work to advance Canada-U.S. economic relations.

Prior to her appointment to FBC, Dr. Dawson led the North America office of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Institute, facilitating public sector digital transformation. Other posts include director of the Canada Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., founder of Dawson Strategic, and senior economic advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Canada. Dawson serves on the teaching faculty at the Master of Public Policy program at McGill University in Montreal and is a board member of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. In addition, Dawson was jury co-chair for the Government of Canada’s 2022 New Frontiers in Research Fund and was named 2021 Person of Distinction by the Public Affairs Association of Canada. Dr. Dawson holds a PhD in Political Science from Carleton University. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

A former Canadian diplomat, Colin Robertson is Senior Advisor and Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and hosts its regular Global Exchange podcast. He is a frequent media commentator and a contributing writer to Policy Magazine.
A member of the Department of National Defence’s Defence Advisory Board, Robertson is an Honorary Captain (Royal Canadian Navy) assigned to the Strategic Communications Directorate.
Robertson is a member of the the Alphen Group of strategists and NPSIA’s Expert Group on Canada-US Relations. He is an Executive Fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.
During his foreign service career, he served as first Head of the Advocacy Secretariat and Minister at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Consul General in Los Angeles, as Consul in Hong Kong, and in New York at the UN and Consulate General. He was part of the teams that negotiated the Canada-US FTA and then the NAFTA.

François Desmarais has joined the Canadian Steel Producers Association (CSPA) in 2024 as their Director for Trade and Industry Affairs, recently promoted to Vice President. He has extensive private experience, having previously worked for large international consortiums in the defense and the transportation sectors. François honed his public policy skills having also worked a decade in various governmental organizations, from the Office of the Minister of Industry, the Senate of Canada, and the National Assembly of Québec, as well as abroad for the European Commission, Canadian missions to the OSCE and to the EU. He holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science and a Certificate in German Studies from the Université de Montréal, and a Master degree in Political Science from Université Laval. François is fluent in French, English, and German.

Jon is an economist and the host of the Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century Podcast, an official podcast of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He's also a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP), an Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center, as well as a member of the Canadian Group of Economists.