Former Cadieux-Léger Fellows
2010-2011: Matias Margulis
Matias Margulis completed his doctoral studies at McMaster University and is now an Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. His dissertation research examined the global regulation of agricultural trade and food security with a particular focus on the World Trade Organization and the United Nations system. As the Cadieux-Leger Fellow, he provided the department with advice and research expertise on the global governance of food security. He is currently working on a new research project on governing land-grabbing.
2009-2010: Clint Abbott
Clint Abbott is completing his PhD in global governance at the University of Waterloo. His dissertation is on networked governance and summit diplomacy and examines how the emergence of networks has affected the policy process and outcomes. Clint used the last few months of his fellowship to conduct interviews with various actors involved with the 2010 G8/G20 summit policy preparatory process, including individuals from Government of Canada departments and agencies, INGOs and foundations. Prior to the Cadieux-Leger Fellowship, he worked at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
2008-2009: Christine Cheng
Christine Cheng is the Bennett Boskey Fellow in Politics and International Relations at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She is also completing her doctorate in politics at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation is entitled “Extralegal Groups, Natural Resources, and Statebuilding After War: Explaining Outcomes in Liberia”. As the Cadieux-Léger fellow, Christine conducted research on ex-combatant groups taking over natural resource areas in the aftermath of war and the problem that these groups pose for long-term statebuilding. She also worked on a project with the War Economies Division aimed at freezing and seizing the assets of “warlords”.
Christine Cheng's Blog
2007-2008: Megan Bradley
Megan Bradley is a doctoral candidate in international relations at the University of Oxford. Her research addresses the justice issues raised by the large-scale repatriation of refugees in post-conflict contexts, and the evolution of international norms on redress for the displaced. Before taking up the Cadieux-Léger Fellowship, she worked with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement.
The 2008 Cadieux-Léger Lecture: Refugee returns and land conflict in Afghanistan: Challenges and opportunities
2006-2007: Sean Burges
Sean Burges' Cadieux-Léger Fellowship research project addressed spaces for convergence and divergence in Brazilian and Canadian foreign policy. Sean completed his PhD in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, and held a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. He is presently a lecturer at the Australian National University. Prior to this he worked as a Senior Planning Analyst the Canadian International Development Agency and with the Canadian Border Services Agency.
2005-2006: Robert Dufresne
Robert Dufresne completed his doctorate in law at New York University in 2007. His doctoral dissertation was entitled "Resources, Law and Violence: A Study of International Law's Role in the Relation between Organized Violence and Global Resource Exploitation". As the Cadieux-Léger Fellow he conducted research on how Canadian litigation mechanisms may be applied to advance corporate social responsibility. Robert also contributed to the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries. He is presently an analyst with the Law and Government Division of the Library of Parliament.
2004-2005: Mark Sedra
Mark Sedra pursued his doctoral studies in the Political Studies Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, and used his time as the Cadieux-Léger Fellow to carry out research on the reconstruction of security structures in post-conflict settings, with Afghanistan serving as his principal case study. He is now a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance (CIGI). View a list of his recent publications.
2002-2003: Sylvain Razavi
While serving as the Cadieux- Léger Fellow, Sylvain Razavi carried out a study contrasting Canadian foreign policy towards Iraq before the first Gulf War and before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He is currently an analyst in the Learning and Professional Development Directorate of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
2001-2002: Philippe Tremblay
Philippe Tremblay's Cadieux-Léger Fellowship coincided with Canada's presidency of the G8, and provided him the opportunity to attend and contribute directly to the G8 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Whistler, British Columbia. Philippe's research addressed issues including mechanisms for creating a G20 meeting of Foreign Ministers. After completing the Cadieux-Léger Fellowship, Philippe joined the Canadian Foreign Service, and is presently posted to the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, where he works on issues including East Asian security, nuclear non-proliferation, and the Japanese Presidency of the G8 in 2008.
2000-2001: Hélène Viau
As the Cadieux-Léger Fellow, Hélène Viau's research examined the Canada-Europe defence and security relationship, and resulted in various published articles on this issue. The Fellowship afforded Hélène the opportunity to participate in a variety of academic and government conferences, and in the development of internal documents and speeches on transatlantic relations, as well as policy planning projects including the Canadian Foreign Policy Dialogue. Since then, she occupied different positions at DFAIT and joined the Canadian Foreign Service. She is currently a senior analyst on energy issues in the US Relations Division.
1999-2000: Michael Bonser
Michael Bonser is the Deputy Director of the Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Group at DFAIT. As the Cadieux-Leger Fellow, Michael's research focused primarily on humanitarian intervention as an element of the broader human security agenda. During his fellowship, Michael co-drafted a Government of Canada discussion paper on humanitarian intervention that informed G8 and other multilateral discussions on the issue in the months after the end of the NATO campaign in Kosovo.
1998-1999: David Carment
David Carment is Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University and Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). Additionally, he is the Principal Investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy project, which he launched while serving as the Cadieux-Léger Fellow. Over the course of the fellowship, he also completed a book (co-authored with Frank Harvey) entitled Using Force to Prevent Ethnic Violence: An Evaluation of Theory and Evidence.
1997-1998: Don Hubert
Don Hubert holds a PhD in Social and Political Science from the University of Cambridge, and is Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. For nearly a decade, Don led policy development on Canada's human security agenda at the DFAIT, serving as Director of the Human Security Division. Don began his career at DFAIT as the Cadieux-Léger Fellow, after completing post-doctoral positions at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University and the Humanitarianism and War Project at Brown University. As the Cadieux-Léger Fellow, he carried out a study on the campaign to ban landmines.
1994-1995: Charles Van der Donckt
As the Cadieux-Léger Fellow, Charles Van der Donckt produced a monograph on regionalism and conflict management that was published by DFAIT and in an academic journal. After completing his PhD at the Australian National University, Charles returned to DFAIT in 1998. He served as the First Secretary at the Canadian High Commission in Canberra before accepting a political-advisory role in Afghanistan in 2007.
1993-1994: Jennifer Welsh
Jennifer Welsh completed her doctorate in international relations at the University of Oxford. During her Cadieux-Léger Fellowship, Jennifer worked on issues related to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and cooperative security in the new post-Cold War era. She is presently Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, and a Trudeau Foundation Fellow.
1992-1993: Stéphane Lefebvre
Stéphane Lefebvre began his career as a Marcel Cadieux Fellow, and subsequently worked as a Defence Scientist with the Directorate of Strategic Analysis at the Canadian Department of National Defence, as an intelligence analyst at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), and as Chief Intelligence and Assessment Programs at the Canadian Department of Transport (Transport Canada). Currently he is Section Head-Strategic Analysis at the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis of Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC CORA). Mr. Lefebvre is also a recipient of the Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In addition to book chapters and monographs, Mr. Lefebvre has published in several academic and professional journals, including the Revue française de science politique, International Journal, Contemporary Politics, Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement, among others. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies and of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence.
1992: Alexander Moens
As DFAIT's first Marcel Cadieux Fellow, Alexander Moens carried out research on the relationship between NATO and the newly emerging foreign and security policy of the European Union. He has continued to publish extensively on this topic, as well as on US foreign policy and Canadian-American Relations. Dr. Moens holds a PhD in Political Science at the University of British Columbia, and is a professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University and a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute in the Centre for Canadian-American Relations.
If you are a former Cadieux-Léger Fellow and your name does not appear on this list, please contact the Department's Policy Research Division at por@international.gc.ca.
