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The Advisory Council is made up of distinguished women and men from diverse backgrounds who have broad experience with universities in low and middle income countries around the world.

David Turpin
President Emeritus of the University of Victoria, and the University of Alberta; Member of the Order of Canada and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Godwin O.S. Ekhaguere
Professor Emeritus, U of Ibadan, Fellow of African Academy of Sciences and of the Nigerian Mathematical Society; winner of the 2021 Nigerian National Order of Merit
Greg Moran
Former Executive Director of Academics Without Borders; Former Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Aga Khan University; Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus of Western University
Indira Samaraesekera
President Emeritus of University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta; Officer of the Order of Canada
Martha Piper
President Emeritus of University of British Columbia Canada; Officer of the Order of Canada; fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Michael Stevenson
President Emeritus and Vice Chancellor of Simon Fraser University; Former Chair of the British Columbia Council for International Education
Nurjehan Mawani
Former CEO of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and Diplomatic Representative of the AKDN; Vice-Chair of IDRC, Member of the Order of Canada
Wendy M. Cecil
Former Chancellor, Victoria University, University of Toronto; former Chair, Governing Council, University of Toronto, Toronto
Louise Fréchette
Chair, CARE International Supervisory Board; former Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations; Officer of the Order of Canada
Paule Leduc
Past Rector, U. du Québec à Montréal; former President, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council; former Director, Canada Council for the Arts
Ernest-Marie Mbonda
Maître de conférences & ViceDoyen, Philosophy Faculty, Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroon
James Orbinski
Principal of Massey College, University of Toronto; former International President of Médecins sans Frontières; Cofounder Dignitas International; Officer of the Order of Canada
J. Robert S. Prichard
President Emeritus, University of Toronto; past director, Int’l Association of Universities, Association of American Universities; Officer of the Order of Canada
Timothy M. Shaw
Faculty Fellow, Conflict Resolution, Human Security, & Global Governance, U. of Massachusetts; Professor Emeritus, U. of London
Stephen J. Toope
CEO of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and President Emeritus of UBC; Officer of Order of Canada