Executive Director: Tina J. Park, Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of History, University of Toronto
Tina J. Park is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, specializing in Canadian-Korean relations from the 1880s to the 1980s. She graduated from Trinity College with an Honours B.A. in International Relations. Tina is currently a Junior Fellow at Massey College and works as a Korean-English interpreter for governments and corporations. ()
Executive Director: Victor MacDiarmid, M.A. (International Relations), University of Toronto
Victor is currently employed as a consultant for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and has received his Master’s degree in the History of International Relations from the University of Toronto. Victor also received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in International Relations. Prior to working with the CCR2P, Victor worked with the U of T chapter of UNICEF, monitored human rights abuses in the West Bank with the ISM and served on the Executive of the University of Toronto Ski Club.
Advisory Board Member: Maria Banda, D.Phil. International Relations, University of Oxford, J.D. (Law), Harvard University
Maria Banda completed her doctoral dissertation in International Relations at Oxford University, which examined the evolving doctrine and practice of the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) in 2001-2009 from the perspective of both international relations and international law. A Rhodes and a Trudeau Scholar, Maria is a graduate of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School. She has worked with several international organizations and written on Canada-U.S. relations, global governance, climate change, and the environment. She is a member of the New York State bar.
Advisory Board Member: Martha Hall Findlay, J.D. (Law), Osgoode Hall Law School
Martha is a former Member of the Canadian Parliament, and held several senior shadow Cabinet positions in the Official Opposition: Associate Finance; Transport, Infrastructure and Communities; Public Works and Government Services, and International Trade. She served on the House of Commons Standing Committees on Finance; Transport, Infrastructure and Communities; Government Operations and Estimates, and International Trade. She is known and respected across all party lines for her focus on respectful politics and her efforts to work constructively with colleagues of all parties. She has recently been appointed an Executive Fellow with the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, and as Chair of the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs’ 2012 Conference.
Advisory Board Member: Naomi Kikoler, L.L.B. and B.C.L., McGill University, M.Sc. (Forced Migration), University of Oxford
Naomi Kikoler is the Director of Policy & Advocacy with the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect where she oversees the Centre’s work on populations at risk of mass atrocities. Prior to joining the Centre she 
was a legal fellow with Amnesty International Canada, where she focused on national security and refugee issues. Naomi has worked as a legal consultant on genocide prevention, clerked in the Office of the Prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and interned with the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement at the Brookings Institution. She has a B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto, an L.L.B. and B.C.L. from McGill University, and an M.Sc. in Forced Migration from Oxford University, where she wrote her thesis on the Rwandan Genocide. She is a member of the Bar of Upper Canada.
Advisory Board Member: John Kirton, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, M.A., Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University
John Kirton is the director of the G8 Research Group, established at the University of Toronto in 1987. In 1992-93, he served as a Special Projects Officer in Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, devising a strategy for Canada’s G7 participation. He has conducted media analyses of the G7/G8 Summits on behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He served on the Foreign Policy Committee of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, an advisory body to the Prime Minister of Canada, and participated in the preparations for the 1995 Halifax Summit. He was a member of the Canadian Government’s International Trade Advisory Committee from 1995 to 1997.
Professor Kirton is an Associate Professor of Political Science, a Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. He has advised the Canadian government on G7 participation and international trade and sustainable development, and has written widely on G7/G8 summitry. Professor Kirton is the Principal Investigator of “Strengthening Canada’s Environmental Community through International Regime Reform” (the EnviReform project). He is editor of the G8 and Global Governance Series published by Ashgate.
Advisory Board Member: Kyle Matthews, M.A. (Development and International Relations), Aalborg University
Kyle Matthews is the Senior Deputy Director for the Will to Intervene Project at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University. He is co-author of the book Mobilizing the Will to Intervene:Leadership to Prevent Mass Atrocities and has advised members of Parliament on issues related to international peace and security. He joined MIGS after more than five years of diplomatic service at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. During that time, he was posted to the Southern Caucasus (Tbilisi), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) and Switzerland (Geneva). He previously worked for CARE Canada in Albania and later at its headquarters in Ottawa, where he managed various humanitarian response initiatives and peace-building projects in Afghanistan, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Kyle is the President of the Canadian International Council in Montreal and a member of the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations. In 2011 he joined the New Leaders program at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the advisory board of the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. He is also a guest lecturer at the McGill Humanitarian Studies Initiative and has commented on humanitarian crises and the Responsibility to Protect on the CBC, Radio Canada, the Business News Network, CTV, Al Jazeera English, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, La Presse, Le Devoir and Global Brief Magazine. Originally from Ottawa, Kyle completed his Master’s in Development and International Relations at Aalborg University in Denmark, earned a certificate in Refugee Issues from York University and received his undergraduate degree in History from Carleton University.
Advisory Board Member: Erin Mooney, M. Phil., University of Cambridge, Ph. D., University of Cambridge
Erin Mooney is a researcher, policy adviser and field practitioner on forced migration, human rights and humanitarian issues, specializing since 1992 in the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and other civilians at risk in their own countries. She has worked extensively throughout Africa as well as in the Americas, Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus.
Currently, Mooney is advising the Government of Bosnia-Herzegovina for UNHCR and the Council of Europe Development Bank; the opposition armed movements participating in the African Union-UN peace process for Darfur; the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre; while continuing to undertake research on IDP issues for the Brookings Institution.
Advisory Board Member: Michael Valpy, Award-Winning Journalist, The Globe and Mail, D. Litt., Trent University
Michael Valpy is a journalist. He writes on politics, public policy, culture, ethics and religion. He also teaches media theory.
He began his journalistic career on The Vancouver Sun and became that newspaper’s associate editor and national political columnist. For The Globe and Mail, he has been a member of the editorial board, Ottawa political columnist, Africa correspondent, deputy managing editor and columnist on social and political issues.
He has produced public affairs documentaries for CBC Radio (Sunday Morning), written for Maclean’s, Elm Street, Shambhala Sun, Policy Options, Literary Review of Canada and Time (Canada) magazines, contributed chapters to several books on public policy issues, won three national newspaper awards (two for international reporting and one for the impact of children from dysfunctional families on the public education system) and been nominated for a fourth (for a profile of Michael Ignatieff), co-authored two books on Canada’s Constitution — The National Deal (1982) and To Match A Dream (1998) — and one on Canada’s emerging generation of adults — New Canada: Report on the Next Generation (2003).
He was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature in 1997 by Trent University and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for his journalism in 2002. He is a senior fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto and a fellow at U of T’s School of Public Policy and Governance. He also is the 2012 CanWest Global Fellow at University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies. He teaches media theory in U of T’s St. Michael’s College book and media studies programme. His home is in Ontario’s Grey County.