Garrett Lambert
Formerly professor in the MBA program and Advisor to the President on Government Relations at the University of Victoria, Garrett is also President of GLI Associates Inc. and has served as a Director on several corporate boards. Read More... In addition to public lectures and speeches on international issues, he has written extensively on Asian affairs. He is an Associate of the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, a member of the Pacific Council on Economic Policy, and was a member of the Prime Minister’s Expert Panel on Canada’s Role in International Science and Technology, and the “Directions III Panel, Innovative Thinking on the Future of the Canadian Health Care System”. Until 1997, Mr. Lambert was one of Canada’s highest ranking diplomats and public servants. His ambassadorial appointments included Hong Kong during its return to China, Malaysia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Earlier, he served as Commercial Counselor in Poland and East Germany, West Germany, and Iran. In Canada, Mr. Lambert held the positions of Assistant Deputy Minister for Corporate Management and Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, was Director General for Trade and Investment with the USA during the establishment of the Free Trade Agreement, and Director General at the Canadian International Development Agency.

Robert S. McNamara
Mr. McNamara received an MBA degree from Harvard University in 1939, and in 1940 returned to become an instructor and later Assistant Professor of Business Administration. In 1943 he was commissioned a captain in the air force and served in the UK, India, China, and the Pacific. Read More... He was awarded the Legion of Merit and promoted to lieutenant colonel before going on inactive duty in April 1946 when he joined the Ford Motor Company. He was elected as a Director of the company in 1957, and President of the company in 1960. At the request of President-elect John F. Kennedy, Mr. McNamara agreed to serve as Secretary of Defense of the United States, a position he held from 1961 until 1968. He became president of the World Bank Group of Institutions in April of 1968, retiring in 1981. Since his retirement, Mr. McNamara has served on a number of boards of directors for both corporations and non-profit associations. He writes and speaks on many topics including population and development, world hunger, the environment, East-West relations, nuclear arms, and his vision of his nation in the 21st century. He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad, and has received many awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (with Distinction), the Albert Einstein Peace Prize, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom from Want Medal, and the Dag Hammarskjold Honorary Medal. He is author of “The Essence of Security; One Hundred Countries, Two Billion People”; “Out of the Cold”; and “In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam”, and most recently, “Wilson’s Ghost”. He has recently been the subject of the Academy Award winning film “The Fog of War”.

Sir Peter North
Sir Peter North brings a wide range of experience and skills to the both our International Advisory Board and the Academic Council. He is the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and was Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1993-97. Read More... He is a lawyer by training and is an Honorary QC. He has been actively involved in law reform in the UK and abroad since the time he served as a Law Commissioner from 1976-84. He has chaired a number of major policy reviews on behalf of government, the most recent of which was the Independent Review of Parades and Marches in Northern Ireland which resulted in the Public Processions Act 1998. From 1985-88, he also led the review of Road Traffic Law in the UK. Sir Peter is the Chairman of ICSTIS, the UK’s Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services, the industry-funded watchdog for premium rate telephone services. In this role he brings very special and relevant experience to LINC which will depend to a great degree upon such technologies. He is known for his integrity, sound judgment and strong analytical skills, enabling him to build consensus and achieve objectives, often in very challenging situations.

Dr. Song Jian
His Excellency Dr. Song Jian is a distinguished scientist and public administrator in the central Chinese government, having held the posts of State Councilor (Vice-Premier level, 1986-1988), Minister of the State Science and Technology Commission (1985-1998) and Chairman of the Environmental Protection Committee (1988-1998). Read More... In 1998 when ending 15 years' government service, Dr Song was elected Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's highest legal and political organization, and President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, from which he has just retired. He now also holds a number of leading posts including Member of the National Steering Group for Technology and Education headed by the Prime Minister, and First Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Academic Degrees of the State Council. He initiated and successfully carried out China's policies to advance science and technology in 1984-1998. Dr. Song is academician of a number of leading academies in China and the world, including the National Academy of Engineering of USA, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Academy of Technological Sciences (IVA) and professor of more than 10 universities across the world. He has authored, co-authored or edited 11 books and has written and published 160 scientific articles, with numerous awards. He is a member of World Intellectual Policy Advisory Commission, Geneva. A Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series has been established in his honour by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.