Assistant Secretary and Chief Diplomatic Officer, Office of International Affairs, Department of Homeland Security
Alan Bersin commenced service as Assistant Secretary of International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the Department of Homeland Security on January 3, 2012. In that capacity, he oversees the Department's international engagement and serves as the principal advisor to Secretary Janet Napolitano on all international affairs. Previously, Bersin served as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and...
EducationM.A., International Relations, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 1986; A.B., Bowdoin College, 1979; Diplôme de Hautes Études de Lettres et Civilisation, Centre international d'études françaises, Université de Nice (France), 1983SubjectsCanada, NAFTA,U.S.-Canada Relations,U.S.-Canada RelationsHonorsCertificate of Merit, International Council f...
Political Scientist, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario; Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan
ExpertiseCanadian and American politics
Ph.D. Candidate, Universite Laval, Canada
Marie-Hélène Cantin was a Canada Institute Junior Scholar from June to August 2007; while in residence at the Center, she conducted research on "The Settlement of International Trade Disputes: An Empirical Analysis of NAFTA's Chapter 19." After her stay at the Wilson Center, she returned to Université Laval in Québec City to continue her doctoral studies.Having completed her co...
Sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada (1979-80)
First elected to the House of Commons at the age of 32, Clark was elected Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada four years later. In 1979, he defeated Pierre Trudeau to become the youngest prime minister in Canadian history.His government was defeated on budget measures designed to establish fiscal responsibility and a new system of expenditure control. In its short term in office...
Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto
Following graduate studies at Oxford and the Sorbonne, Stephen Clarkson has been teaching political economy at the University of Toronto. His research there on the Soviet model of development resulted in two books: L'analyse soviétique des problèmes indiens du sous-développement (1978) and The Soviet Theory of Development: India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Schol...
EducationM.A., International Relations, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 1986; A.B., Bowdoin College, 1979; Diplôme de Hautes Études de Lettres et Civilisation, Centre international d'études françaises, Université de Nice (France), 1983SubjectsCanada, NAFTA,U.S.-Canada Relations,U.S.-Canada RelationsHonorsCertificate of Merit, International Council f...
Following graduate studies at Oxford and the Sorbonne, Stephen Clarkson has been teaching political economy at the University of Toronto. His research there on the Soviet model of development resulted in two books: L'analyse soviétique des problèmes indiens du sous-développement (1978) and The Soviet Theory of Development: India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Schol...