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Speaker and Panelist Biographies:

• Professor Bruce Scott, Conference Co-Chair
  Bruce R. Scott is the Paul W. Cherington Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His particular area of interest is the impact of public policy on the business environment and economic strategies of nations. In 1973 he was asked to reconceptualise the required first year course on the business environment that had variously been called Business Responsibilities in American Society and Manager in the American Economy into one that has subsequently been called Business, Government and the International Economy.
  
  The 2008 HBS Centennial Seminar in Ottawa focuses on the results of Prof. Scott’s extensive 15-year research on capitalism, democracy and development, the subject of his upcoming book, to be published this year by Springer Verlag.
  
  His outside activities have included participation in the scenario planning activities of Royal Dutch/Shell, a scenario analysis of the Venezuelan economy and similar analyses of the prospects for transition in South Africa and for Luxembourg. His books are Industrial Planning in France (with John McArthur), U.S. Competitiveness in the World Economy (with George Lodge), and South Africa: Prospects for Successful Transition (with Robert S.K. Tucker), and Europe 2012 Globalisation et Cohesion Sociale: Les Scénarios Luxembourgeois. In 1991 Professor Scott was appointed by the U.S. Senate as one of its four representatives on the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council, an advisory board established by the Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.
  Prof. Scott holds a B.A. in economics (Swarthmore College) and M.B.A. and D.B.A. (Harvard Business School).
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• Professor Joseph Martin, Conference Co-Chair
  A Harvard Business School alumnus, Professor Joseph Martin is Director of Canadian Business History and Adjunct Professor of Business Strategy at the Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto. Concurrently, he is President Emeritus, Canada's National History Society; Board Member, AGF Group of Funds, ANGOSS Software and the University of Winnipeg Foundation; Canadian Advisory Board Member of WNED public broadcasting. Previously, Prof. Martin was Chairman of Management Consulting Committee, Deloitte, Touche and Tohmatsu International; Executive Assistant, Premier of Manitoba and Investment Analyst at Monarch Life Insurance.
  
  Prof. Martin is currently working with the Canadian Business Hall of Fame on a time line of Canadian Business History which will be the basis for a mural in the Hall of Fame. This year, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney, Australia where he lead a symposium on the importance of business history and a seminar on the learned lessons from capitalism in Canada and Australia in the 20th Century.
  
  The first ever on the topic, his upcoming book titled Relentless Change: Capitalism in Canada from the Mid 19th to 21st Century will be jointly published by the University of Toronto Press and the Rotman School of Management. Since 2005, Prof. Martin has been invited by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University to deliver his lecture titled A Concise History of Canadian Business or It All Began with Alexander Hamilton.
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• Ms. Barbara Stymiest, Featured Speaker
  Barbara Stymiest is the Chief Operating Officer of RBC, Canada’s leading financial institution. She is responsible for directing enterprise strategy, as well as all corporate functions including risk management, human resources and treasury. As a member of RBC’s Group Executive, she is one of eight executives responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of RBC.
  
  Prior to joining RBC, Ms. Stymiest was Chief Executive Officer of TSX Group, where she was responsible for overseeing the operations and leading the long-term strategic development of both the senior capital market – Toronto Stock Exchange and the junior capital market – TSX Venture Exchange. Prior to joining TSX, Ms. Stymiest was Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer for Bank of Montreal’s investment banking division.
  
  Ms. Stymiest is currently a director of Research in Motion Limited, Symcor Inc., Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Royal Ontario Museum and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation. She has also served on a number of professional and charitable organizations including the CICA’s Accounting Oversight Committee, United Way Campaign Cabinet and Hincks-Dellcrest Children’s Centre.
  
  Ms. Stymiest obtained her degree in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
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•  Ambassador Raymond Chrétien, Executive Panel Moderator
  Mr. Chrétien had a long and distinguished 38-year career in the Canadian Foreign Service.  He was successively Ambassador to the Congo, Mexico, Belgium, the United States and France, acquiring an extensive knowledge and first-hand experience of complex issues in international negotiations and trade agreements.  In 1996, he also served as Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to resolve a complex humanitarian issue dealing with refugees in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa.
  
  Mr. Chrétien is currently a Senior Partner and Strategic Advisor to Fasken, Martineau, DuMoulin LLP.  He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the CERIUM (Center for Research and International Studies at the University of Montréal) and Chief Federal Negotiator for the negotiations with the Crees of Northern Québec.
  
  Mr. Chrétien is a member of the Trilateral Commission and serves on a number of boards of directors.  Over the years, he has received a number of honorary doctorates and distinctions.  He has been bestowed the Order of the Leopard of the Congo, the Order of the Aztec Eagle of Mexico, and made a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur by President Chirac of France.  He is the author of Le Canada dans le monde d'hier à aujourd'hui, recently published by Les Éditions Varia.
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• Mr. Gaëtan Lussier, Government-Business Integration Panelist
  Mr. Lussier’s senior executive experience spans a wide variety of companies and government agencies.  He currently serves as a member of several corporate boards including Shoppers Drug Mart, Foragen , Avrio Venture (dedicated to venture capital in biotechnology),  and a host of not-for-profit associations.  Mr. Lussier was also President and Chief Executive Officer of Culinar Inc., and was President of Weston Bakeries Québec. 
  Mr. Lussier had a long and influential career as a senior public servant with the Federal and the Québec governments.  He was Deputy Minister of Agriculture for the Government of Québec, Deputy Minister of the Federal Department of Agriculture and of Employment and Immigration Canada, as well as President of the Unemployment Insurance Commission.
  
  Mr. Lussier was Chair of the External Committee on Smart Regulations for the Canadian Government. He presently chairs the Board of the Canadian Agri-food Policy Institute, which he created at the request of the Federal Government to identify issues and opportunities affecting the future of the Canadian Agri-food economy. Mr. Lussier is also a Member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Senior Level Retention and Compensation since 1997. The Committee delivered its 9th report in January 2008.
  
  A recipient of the Order of Canada, Mr. Lussier has received numerous other honours, including an honorary doctorate in agricultural sciences from McGill University and the Ordre du Mérite Agronomique de l’Ordre des Agronomes du Québec.
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