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H COL ROBERT J.S. GIBSON, CLJ, MMLJ, CHAIR
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Robert J. S. Gibson joined the Royal Canadian Navy as an officer cadet
and attended first year at the University of Alberta. This was
followed by a period with Southland Canada during which he became
District Manager for Alberta and was responsible for the management of
thirty-one 7-Eleven stores.
After leaving Southland Canada, Bob was engaged in the real estate
development industry with Western Realty Projects where he became Area
Manager for Southern Alberta. In 1976, he accepted a position as
President of United Management Ltd. and ultimately, Managing Director
of Alsten Holdings Ltd., the holding company of the Singer Family of
Calgary, a position that he still holds.
In 1986, Bob returned to the family roots and acquired the Bobtail
Ranch in Penticton, B.C. where he and Brigitte raise a commercial herd
as well as a reputable herd of pedigree Angus cattle.
Bob sits on a number of committees related to the Army Reserve
restructuring. He is active in charitable works through both the Order
of St. Lazarus and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program.
He is currently holding the position of Honorary Colonel of the
Calgary Highlanders in 2002.
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ROBERT BOOTH
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Bob Booth is a senior partner in the Calgary office
of the Bennett Jones LLP law firm.
Bob is involved in business, professional,
academic and public policy organizations. He is a director of ATCO
Ltd. and of Canadian Utilities Limited; he has served as a director of
the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation and is a past president of The
Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada. Bob is vice-chair of the
advisory council to the University of Calgary Centre for Military and
Strategic Studies and a director of the Conference of Defence
Associations Institute. Bob received the Institute-certified Director
qualification (ICD.D) from the Institute of Corporate Directors on
March 13, 2009.
Bob's legal practice covers many areas of corporate,
commercial, energy and resources law both for Canadian and a variety
of foreign corporations.
To complement his legal practice, Bob has taught Oil and Gas Law and
has spoken and authored articles on Canadian Oil and Gas for the
Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation, the Alberta Law Review, and various
professional and business seminars.
Bob is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar
Association. He is recognized as one of Canada's leading lawyers in
Energy Law (2009, Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500
Lawyers in Canada. 2010, Chambers Global: The WorId's Leading Lawyers
for Business in Energy: Oil and Gas. 2010, Best Lawyers in Canada).
Bob has been with Bennett Jones throughout his legal career, joining
in 1977 and becoming a partner in 1984. A Bachelor of Engineering
graduate from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1974, he entered
Dalhousie Law School as a Dunn Scholar and was awarded the Oil and Gas
Prize upon graduation in 1977.
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TOM FLANAGAN
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Tom Flanagan studied political science at Notre
Dame University, the Free University of West Berlin, and Duke
University, where he received his Ph.D. He has taught political
science at the University of Calgary since 1968. He was elected to
the Royal Society of Canada in 1996, and was named University
Professor in 2007.
Dr. Flanagan is best known as a scholar for his
books on Louis Riel, the North-West Rebellion, and aboriginal land
claims. His book First Nations? Second Thoughts received both
the Donner Prize and the Canadian Political Science Association’s
Donald Smiley Prize for the best book on Canadian politics published
in the year 2000. He has also published extensively on Canadian
politics, elections, political parties, and game theory as a tool for
understanding political life.
His experience working for Preston Manning and the Reform Party is
described in his book Waiting for the Wave: The Reform Party and
Preston Manning, published in 1995 (2nd ed., 2009).
He managed Stephen Harper’s campaigns for the
leadership of the Canadian Alliance (2002) and of the Conservative
Party of Canada (2004), as well as the Conservative Party’s national
election campaign in 2004. He was the Senior Communications Adviser
in the Conservative war room during the 2005-06 election campaign.
These experiences are described in his book Harper’s Team: Behind
the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power (2nd ed., 2009).
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BRIAN
FLEMMING
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 Brian Flemming, CM, QC, DCL, is a Canadian policy advisor, writer and
international lawyer. From 2002 to 2005, he was Chairman of the
Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA), a Crown corporation
that was created by Canada’s federal Parliament on April 1, 2002, to
improve security at Canadian airports and on Canadian aircraft. He
acted as CATSA’s first CEO and set up the Crown corporation.
Following his departure from CATSA, Mr. Flemming became a Special
Advisor to Sypher-Mueller International, an Ottawa-based consulting
firm working primarily in the aviation sector. In August, 2005, he was
appointed for a two-year term by the Government of Canada to the new
Advisory Council on National Security.
Previously, in 2000-01, Mr. Flemming was Chairman of the Canadian
Transportation Act Review (CTAR) Panel, a major statutory decennial
review of Canada’s transport policies. His report to the Government of
Canada was widely hailed for its vision and balance. In 2003, he was
awarded the National Transportation Week “Award of Achievement”.
Mr. Flemming is a former senior partner of the law firm of Stewart,
McKelvey, Stirling & Scales and a former lecturer in public
international law at Dalhousie Law`School. He has been chairman as
well as a director of scores of public, private and not-for-profit
corporations. His public company directorships have included Noranda,
Brunswick Mining & Smelting, Enheat, VGM Capital, First Choice
Canadian Communications, Azure Resources and Homburg Invest. He is
currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of PDM Royalties Income
Fund.
Between 1976 and 1979, he was Assistant Principal Secretary to Prime
Minister Pierre E. Trudeau. In recent years, he has spoken at
international meetings or universities in North America, Europe, Asia
and Africa on transport policy, general security issues, air transport
security in Canada and internationally, the war on terrorism and the
public international law of the sea.
He has been the vice chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, a
board member of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, chairman of the
International Centre for Ocean Development, founding chairman of
Symphony Nova Scotia and a board member of: the Canadian Institute of
International Affairs, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research,
the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Van Horne Institute,
Pearson College of the Pacific and the International Oceans Institute
of Canada.
Mr. Flemming has degrees in science from Saint Mary’s University,
Halifax, and in law from Dalhousie University, Halifax. He did
post-graduate work in public international law at University College
London, England, and at the Hague Academy of International Law,
Netherlands.
He has an honorary doctorate from the University of King’s College
where he was chairman of the Board of Governors for nearly 10 years.
He became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1989. He lives in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is married and has two adult children.
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Robert B. Hamilton
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Mr. Hamilton has been an Executive with the Royal
Bank Financial Group for the past 18 years where he is involved in
financial planning and investments for institutions and individuals,
as well as managerial responsibilities. Previously, he was was the
senior executive for Royal Trust in western Canada 10 years before his
tenure at RBC. Bob's community service is
extensive. He is most proud of his role as a board member of
organizations such as the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation,
Calgary Stampede Foundation, Wilfrid Laurier University Board of
Governors, Red Deer College Foundation Board, and as the co-founder
of the Tim Hamilton Endowment Scholarship Fund at the Red Deer
College and the Wish Foundation of Alberta. He also sits on the
board of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and is the co-Chairman of the
Hall's relocation to Calgary. Mr. Hamilton's
enthusiasm, positive attitude, professionalism, creative approach to
problem solving and his ability to successfully encourage others to
give back to their community have served him well as a leader in his
professional and volunteering activities.
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Stephen Letwin
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As Executive Vice President, Gas Transportation &
International, Steve has overall responsibility for Enbridge Energy
Partners and for all of Enbridge's natural gas operations, including
the Alliance and Vector natural gas pipelines. He also oversees
Enbridge Gas Distribution, Canada's largest Gas Distribution company
and is responsible for the International business unit, including
Enbridge Technology Inc.
Steve joined Enbridge as President and Chief
Operating Officer of Energy Services in 1999, and was appointed Group
Vice-President, Distribution and Services in 2001. Before coming to
Enbridge, Steve held senior executive positions with a number of
companies in the energy transmission, exploration and production
sectors.
Steve has a real passion for community involvement.
He serves as Patron for UNICEF Alberta, was a Director of YMCA
Calgary, was on the Board of Governors at McMaster University and is
an Honorary Director of Westpark Hospital in Toronto. He is very
active with the Canadian Military and was appointed Honorary Colonel
of Calgary's 14th Service Battalion. He was the recent recipient of
the Alberta Centennial Medal for his commitment to community and was
named to McMaster University’s Alumni Hall of Fame. He also recently
joined the Corporate Campaign Committee of Texas Children’s Hospital
and he and his wife Debbie were Chairmen for the 2009 Vintner
Campaign Dinner for Cancer Counseling in Houston, Texas.
Steve and his wife Debbie
are the Chairs for the 2010 American Heart Association Houston Heart
Ball.
Steve is a member of the Financial Executives
Institute as well as a board and executive committee member of the
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America. He is also a director
of the Canadian and American Gas Association and a past Governor for
McMaster University.
Steve received a Bachelor of Science degree with
honors from McMaster University in 1977 and an MBA-Finance from the
University of Windsor in 1979. He also is a graduate of the Advanced
Management Program at Harvard University and is a Certified General
Accountant.
Steve and his wife have three children and love
hitting the beaches of Hawaii for a vacation.
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ROBERT S. MILLAR
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Robert S. Millar has academic, corporate, government, military and
not-for-profit experience. Over a 20 year career, he was an executive
in several corporations ranging from oil sands development, downstream
petroleum, biotechnology, private medicine and high tech research &
development. In 2000 he retired with the rank of Brigadier-General
from the Canadian Forces, having served 15 years in the Regular Army
and 20 years with the Army Reserve. In 2001 he became the founding
President of Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute.
Bob has served on several Boards: Shooting Star Technologies, Eric
Technologies Corporation, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Board,
Citizen’s Advisory Roundtable (CAR) on the future use of the former
Canadian Forces Base Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Canadian
Petroleum Products Institute, Transportation Association of Canada and
Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta. He was Chair of a private
Research Ethics Board, the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation,
Prairie Petroleum Association – Marketing, Conference of Defence
Associations, Sharing Our Military Heritage Foundation and President
of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps Association. Currently, he is
Chair of the Calgary Military Museums Society.
Bob has Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Commerce
degrees from Queen’s University as well as the Queen’s University
Public Executive Program certificate. He holds the designation
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Hugh
Segal
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Senator Hugh Segal, C.M., is a former Chief of Staff to the Prime
Minister of Canada, Associate Cabinet Secretary (policies and
priorities) in Ontario and a former President of the Institute for
Research on Public Policy. A former Chair of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs, a member of the recent Special Senate Committee on
Terrorism. He is a Senior Fellow of the Queen’s
School of Policy Studies, and a Member of both the Council of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and of the
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Stockholm. He is
also Senior Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs
Institute in Calgary, and a regular Lecturer on Defence Policy at the
Canadian Forces Staff College in Toronto. A graduate
in history from the University of Ottawa, Senator Segal is
an honorary captain in the Canadian Navy and holds honorary
doctorates in law from the Royal Military College of Canada He sits
on a range of private, public and not-for-profit boards of directors,
and is Senior Research Fellow at the McMillan law firm in Canada.
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MICHAEL SHAW
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Michael M. Shaw spent 30 years with the ATCO Group of Companies in a
wide variety of roles with increasing responsibility over his career.
He retired from ATCO in September of 2009 and is currently involved
with corporate boards, charitable endeavors and fundraising
activities.
Mr. Shaw graduated with Honours from Queen’s University in Kingston,
Ontario with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. He is a member of the
World Presidents’
Organization (WPO) and serves on the Board of Directors of Chariot
Carriers Inc., Great Western Brewing Co., AVIVA Insurance Canada, Cash
Store Financial Services Inc., and ITC Construction Group.
He is a Director of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
(CDFAI) and is 2nd Vice President of the Calgary Petroleum Club. He
is past Chair of the Calgary Science Centre. He and his wife Linda
also co-chair a fund raising effort for the Kid's Cancer Care
Foundation of Alberta - Camp Kindle.
Michael and his wife, Linda, have two daughters and reside in Calgary. |
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