Rudyard Griffiths
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Rudyard Griffiths is a TV co-anchor, author, and social entrepreneur. He is the co-host of the daily business and politics television show National Affairs on the CTV News Channel
. He has edited eleven collections of essays on Canadian and international political and historical themes and is the author of Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto
(2009). He has also been a columnist with the National Post
and The Toronto Star. He is the co-founder of the Salon Speakers Series in http://www.salonspeakers.com/ in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. Presenters at the Series include Christopher Hitchens
, Nassim Taleb
, James Carville
, Gore Vidal
and Paul Volcker
. He is also the moderator and organiser of the semi-annual Munk Debates
. http://www.munkdebates.com/ Recent Munk Debates
participants include Tony Blair
, Henry Kissinger
, Christopher Hitchens
, Fareed Zakaria
and Niall Ferguson
.
Rudyard Griffiths is the co-founder of the Dominion Institute; a national charity founded in 1997 to promote history and civics education in Canadian high schools. He stepped down as executive director in July 2008. In September 2009, the Dominion Institute merged with the Historica Foundation to create Canada’s largest history and citizenship NGO. He is a founding board member of the combined organization. He also sits on the board of the Global Centre for Pluralism
; an international initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada)
and the U.K. based Ditchley Foundation
.
In 2006, Rudyard Griffiths was recognised by The Globe and Mail as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40. In September 2008, he was appointed Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Canadian Forces College
. He studied history and political science at Trinity College
, University of Toronto
and completed a master's degree in political theory at Cambridge University.
CTV News Channel
CTV News Channel is a digital television channel operated by China Television in Taiwan, launched on July 1, 2004....
. He has edited eleven collections of essays on Canadian and international political and historical themes and is the author of Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto
Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto
Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto is a 2009 book by Rudyard Griffiths. In it, Griffiths argues that Canada has become a “postmodern state”—a nation that downplays its history and makes few demands on its citizens, allowing them to find their allegiances where they may, in their region, their...
(2009). He has also been a columnist with the National Post
National Post
The National Post is a Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, a district of Toronto. The paper is owned by Postmedia Network Inc. and is published Mondays through Saturdays...
and The Toronto Star. He is the co-founder of the Salon Speakers Series in http://www.salonspeakers.com/ in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. Presenters at the Series include Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...
, Nassim Taleb
Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese American essayist whose work focuses on problems of randomness and probability. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II....
, James Carville
James Carville
Chester James Carville, Jr. is an American political consultant, commentator, educator, actor, attorney, media personality, and prominent liberal pundit. Carville gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill...
, Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality...
and Paul Volcker
Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker, Jr. is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan from August 1979 to August 1987. He is widely credited with ending the high levels of inflation seen in the United States in the 1970s and...
. He is also the moderator and organiser of the semi-annual Munk Debates
Munk Debates
The Munk Debates are a biannual series of debates on major policy issues held in Toronto, Canada. They are run by the Aurea Foundation. A charitable foundation set up by Peter Munk, founder of Barrick Gold and his wife...
. http://www.munkdebates.com/ Recent Munk Debates
Munk Debates
The Munk Debates are a biannual series of debates on major policy issues held in Toronto, Canada. They are run by the Aurea Foundation. A charitable foundation set up by Peter Munk, founder of Barrick Gold and his wife...
participants include Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
, Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
, Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...
, Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...
and Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson
Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....
.
Rudyard Griffiths is the co-founder of the Dominion Institute; a national charity founded in 1997 to promote history and civics education in Canadian high schools. He stepped down as executive director in July 2008. In September 2009, the Dominion Institute merged with the Historica Foundation to create Canada’s largest history and citizenship NGO. He is a founding board member of the combined organization. He also sits on the board of the Global Centre for Pluralism
Global Centre for Pluralism
The Global Centre for Pluralism is an international centre for research, education and exchange about the values, practices and policies that underpin pluralist societies...
; an international initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada)
Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada)
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Canada was established in 2002 under the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act to investigate approaches for managing Canada’s used nuclear fuel...
and the U.K. based Ditchley Foundation
Ditchley Foundation
The Ditchley Foundation is a British organisation based at Ditchley House near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, which aims to promote international relations, especially Anglo-American relations, through a programme of around fifteen annual conferences on matters of international interest...
.
In 2006, Rudyard Griffiths was recognised by The Globe and Mail as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40. In September 2008, he was appointed Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Canadian Forces College
Canadian Forces College
The Canadian Forces College is a military school for senior and general officers of the Canadian Forces. The college provides military education courses meant to enable officers to effectively provide leadership within the Canadian Forces. Additionally, the Non-Commissioned Members Profession...
. He studied history and political science at Trinity College
University of Trinity College
The University of Trinity College, informally referred to as Trin, is a college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan. Trinity was intended by Strachan as a college of strong Anglican alignment, after the University of Toronto severed its ties with the Church of...
, University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
and completed a master's degree in political theory at Cambridge University.