The commitment, passion and informed leadership of the women and men who have served on our Board of Governors over the past 30 years has made an invaluable contribution to our work. Members of FIT’s volunteer Board have represented all five continents, and brought a wealth of experience from government, international and non-governmental institutions as well as the private sector. The following is a list of FIT's Board members spanning our 30-year history, including the institutional affiliations held at the time of their membership.

Sam Beare*,
Founding Board Member, Trustee and Chair 1976-1977
President, Globe Envelopes, Canada

Alexander King*,
Founding Board Member, Chair,
1977-1988 President, Club of Rome, France

Barrie G. Dexter,
Chair, 1988-1994 Chair,
CARE Australia, Former Australian Ambassador
to Canada

Roseann Runte,
Chair, 1995 – 2000
President, Victoria University in the University
of Toronto, Canada

Peter Barnes
President, Peter Barnes Enterprises,
Former Secretary of Cabinet (Ontario), Canada

Michel Agnaïeff
President, Canadian Commission
for UNESCO, Canada

How-Ghee Ang
Former Chairman, Singapore Science
Council, Singapore

Thelma Awori
Assistant Administrator and Director,
Bureau for Africa, UNDP, USA

Dame Nita Barrow*
Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
Barbados Mission, Barbados

Beatrice Bazar
Former President of the United Nations
Association of Canada, Canada

Sheryl Bond
Faculty of Education, Queen's University,
Canada

Margarita Marino de Botero
Director, Colegio Centro Verde, Colombia
Former Member, Bundtland Commission on
Environment and Development

Gene E. Bradley
President, International Management and
Development Institute, Canada

John Bradley
Former Secretary Treasurer, Canadian Association for
the Club of Rome, Canada

Gretchen Brewin
Mayor, City of Victoria, Canada

G. Arthur Brown*
Governor, Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica
Former Deputy Administrator, UNDP

Gloria Burke
President, Women for PACE, Jamaica

Ian Burton
Special Advisor, Environment Canada, Canada
Former Director, Institute of Environmental Studies,
University of Toronto

Martin Philip Connell
Chairman, Conwest Exploration Co., Canada

Bryan Davies
Chair of the Board, Canada Deposit Insurance
Corporation, Canada

Elizabeth Dowdeswell
President, Nuclear Waste Management
Organization, Canada

Robert Dowsett
President, Robert Dowsett Consulting, Canada

 Earl Drake
Adjunct Professor, David Lam Centre at the
University of British Columbia, Canada
Former Canadian Ambassador to China, Indonesia

Tekalign Gedamu
United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Africa, Ethiopia

Paul Gérin-Lajoie
Former President, Canadian International
Development Agency, Canada
President, Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie

Gustave Gingras
Director, Prince Edward Island Department of
Health, Canada

William Graham
Professor of International Law, University of Toronto,
Canada, Member of Parliament

Marguerite Ann Hale
Chair, Morrison Lamothe Inc., Canada

Mahbub ul Haq*
Director, Policy, Planning and Programme Evaluation,
World Bank, USA

Tayseer Abdel Jaber
Chairman, Jordanian Securities Commission, Jordan;
Former Secretary-General, UN Economic and
Social Commission for Western Asia

Maysa Jalbout
Assistant Director and Senior Advisor,
Education CIDA, Canada

Abdel Rahman Khane
Executive Director, UNDO, Switzerland

Peter Kilburn
Vice President, Project Financing,
Lavalin International, Canada

Marnie Kingsley
Senior Vice President and Chief Auditor,
Bank of Montreal, Canada

Assad Kotaite
President of the Council, International
Civil Aviation Organisation, Canada

Ranjit Kumar
Founder and former Executive Director
Foundation for International Training, Canada

Rustam Lalkaka
President, Business and Technology Development
Strategies, Former Director UN Science and
Technology, USA

 Bridget Lawson
Former Executive Director, African Medical
and Research Foundation, Canada

 

Napoleon LeBlanc
Former Member, Executive Board of UNESCO,
Canada

Aklilu Lemma*
Principal Scientific Coordinator, UN
Conference on Science and Technology for
Development, USA

Elizabeth Lwanga-Okwenje
Gender and Development Program,
UNDP, USA UN Resident Representative, Gambia

Hon. David MacDonald
Member of Parliament, Canada

André Mailot*
Vice President, Human Resources Division,
Industrial Alliance Life Insurance Company,
Canada

Devyani Mani
Former Human Security and Regional Development
Expert, UN Centre for Regional Development, India

Richard Manning
Economic Development Institute,
World Bank USA
Former Director, Australian International
Assistance Bureau, Australia

José A. Mayobre
Banco Central De Venzuela, Venezuela

Federico Mayor
Former Director-General,
UNESCO, Spain

Rosemary A. McCarney
Vice President, Kanchar
International Inc., Canada

Thomas Odhiambo
Director, International Centre for Insect
Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

Tomas Pastoriza
President, Financiera Dominicana,
Dominican Republic

Geoffrey Pearson*
Chair, Group of 78, Canada
Former Canadian Ambassador
to the Soviet Union

Aurelio Peccei*
President, Club of Rome, Italy

Lewis Perinbam*
Chair, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada
Former Vice President CIDA

Lloyd W. Perry, QC*
Former Official Guardian of the
Province of Ontario, Canada

Heather Peterson
International Consultant, Canada

Jim Peterson
Member of Parliament, Canada

Sir Fred Phillips, CVO, QC
Chief Legal Advisor, Cable and
Wireless PLC, Barbados

D. Jane Pratt
Executive Director, The Mountain
Institute, USA

Lilia 0. Ramos
Executive Officer, APPROTECH
Asia, Philippines

James Reeve
Chairman, McCann Erickson
Advertising, Canada

Ronald S. Ritchie
Member of Parliament, Canada President,
Investment Dealers Association of Canada

Clyde Sanger
Former Director of Information, Commonwealth
Secretariat, Canada Director of Information, IDRC

Mitchell Sharp
Commissioner, Northern Pipeline Agency,
Canada Former Minister of Finance
and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Soedjatmoko
Rector, United Nations
University, Japan

Don Stevenson
Consulting Associate, Canadian Urban
Institute, Canada

Jean St. Denis
Former Director, International Programs
Quebec Teachers's Federation, Canada

John Stokes
Former Vice President, International
Development, Gang-Nail Systems Inc.,
Australia

Pierre Sicard
Chairman, Bronson Consulting
Group, Canada

Louise Terrillon-Mackay
Heritage Canada

Albert Tevoedjre
Director, International Institute for
Labour Studies, Switzerland

Laila Valere
Counselling Psychologist, Trinidad and
Tobago Trinidad and Tobago High
Commissioner to Barbados

Judith Ann Wedderburn
Project Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Jamaica

William Weinstein
Executive Director, Consulting
Engineers of Ontario, Canada

Rennie Whitehead
Director, Hancock-Lapp
Associates, Canada

Art Wright
Sustainable Development Research Institute,
University of British Columbia, Canada
Former Canadian Ambassador
to Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Bangladesh

Gisele Yasmeen
Vice-President Partnerships, Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council, Canada


* Deceased