Jeremy Kinsman
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Director since 2007
Member of the Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee and Member of the Compensation Committee
Mr. Kinsman was educated at Princeton University and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, before joining the Canadian Foreign Service in 1966, where he became one of Canada's most senior and experienced diplomats, serving as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Minister for Political Affairs in Washington and Political Director in Ottawa. From 1992 to 2006, Mr. Kinsman was Canada's Ambassador to Russia, Ambassador to Italy, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Ambassador to the European Union, accredited as well in these positions to a dozen other countries. Since 2007, he has directed an international democracy support project for the Community of Democracies and continues to be a widely-presented and published commentator, notably for CTV News. Since 2010, he has been affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, and Ryerson University, Toronto.