Bill Graham

First elected as Member of Parliament for Toronto-Centre-Rosedale in 1993, Bill Graham served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from January 2002 until July 2004 and Minister of National Defence from July 2004 until January 2006.   In February 2006, Bill Graham was appointed leader of the Official Opposition and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, positions he served until December 2006. 

From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Graham served as chairman of the Standing Committee of the House of Commons on Foreign Affairs and International Trade.  Active in international parliamentary associations, Mr. Graham was elected founding president of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas.  He has served as vice president and treasurer of the Parliamentary Association of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and as treasurer of Liberal International. 

Prior to his election to parliament, Mr. Graham practiced law at Fasken & Calvin, specializing in civil litigation and international business transactions, and served on the board of directors of various public and private Canadian corporations.  Subsequently, he taught international trade law, public international law, and the law of the European Community at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. He also served as Director of the Centre of International Studies at the University of Toronto.  Mr. Graham has been a visiting lecturer in law at McGill University and the Université de Montréal. 

A past president of the Alliance française de Toronto, Mr. Graham has been recognized for his contributions to French language and culture in Ontario by being granted the Prix Jean-Baptiste Rousseaux, the Médaille d’argent de la ville de Paris, the Médaille d’or de l’Alliance française, and the Ordre du mérite de l’Association des juristes de l’Ontario. He is a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur and Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Pléiade.

Mr. Graham is Chancellor at Trinity College, University of Toronto, Chair of The Atlantic Council of Canada, Co-Vice Chair of the Canadian International Council, and Hon. LCol of the Governor General’s Horse Guards.

Josef Joffe

Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. Previously he was columnist/editorial page editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (1985-2000).

Abroad, his essays and reviews have appeared in: New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Weekly Standard, Prospect (London), Commentaire (Paris).

His second career is in academia. In 2007, he was appointed Senior Fellow of Stanford’s Institute for International Studies (a professorial position), with which he has been affiliated since 1999. A Visiting Professor of Political Science at Stanford since 2004, he is also a Fellow of the University’s Hoover Institution. He has also taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the University of Munich and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton and Dartmouth.

His most recent book is Überpower: America’s Imperial Temptation (2006, translated into German and French). His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, International Security, The American Interest and Foreign Policy as well as in professional journals in Germany, Britain and France. He is the author of The Limited Partnership: Europe, the United States and the Burdens of Alliance, The Future of International Politics: The Great Powers, and co-author of Eroding Empire: Western Relations With Eastern Europe.

Dr. Joffe is a member of the American Academy in Berlin; International University Bremen; Ben Gurion University, Israel; Goldman Sachs Foundation, New York; Aspen Institute Berlin; Leo Baeck Institute, New York; German Children and Youth Foundation, Berlin; European Advisory Board; and Hypovereinsbank, Munich (2001-2005).

He is also a member of several editorial boards: Co-Founder and Executive Committee, The American Interest, Washington; International Security, Harvard; Prospect, London; and The National Interest, Washington from 1995-2005.

Dr. Joffe is a Trustee of Atlantik-Brücke, Berlin; Deutsches Museum, Munich; and Abraham Geiger College, Berlin. He is a member of the American Council on Germany and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

He has Honorary Degrees in Humane Letters from Swarthmore College (2002) and Lewis and Clark College (2005). He also holds the Theodor Wolff Prize (Journalism) and Ludwig Börne Prize (Essays/Literature), Germany, as well as the Federal Order of Merit, Germany.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard and is married to Dr. Christine Brinck Joffe, with whom he has two daughters.

 

Dwight Mason
 

Dwight N. Mason is a graduate of Brown University, and of the University of California at Berkeley.  After serving as Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Mr. Mason retired from the Foreign Service to become a non-attorney member of the Washington law firm of Storch and Brenner where he worked from 1991 until 2002. In 1994, President Clinton appointed him to be the Chairman of the United States Section of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, Canada-United States and he remained in this role until July 2002. He is now a Senior Associate specializing in Canadian affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. 

Mr. Mason was a Foreign Service Officer from 1962 until 1991. He served in Morocco, Colombia, Ecuador, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Department of State, and at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, first as the Counselor for Political Affairs and then as Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister.    

Mr. Mason is a member of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, the Canadian International Council and of the Advisory Council of the Network on North American Studies of the Canada–U.S. Fulbright program. He has been an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and a mid-career Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations at Princeton University.