Mr. Michael Ignatieff (Etobicoke--Lakeshore)
Biography
Michael is an author, scholar, journalist, and lifelong Liberal. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Etobicoke-Lakeshore in 2006, re-elected in 2008, and currently serves as the Leader of the Official Opposition, Intergovernmental Affairs Critic, and Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is one of Canada's leading voices on the world stage in the field of human rights, democracy and international affairs.
Son of a distinguished diplomat George Ignatieff, Mr. Ignatieff is the former director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights and Policy at Harvard University. He is one of the most influential voices in the global debate on human rights, as well as the distinguished author of an acclaimed biography of British academic Sir Isaiah Berlin and such award-winning works as The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror.
Mr. Ignatieff received a degree in history at the University of Toronto and a doctorate at Harvard University. He is a former Senior Research Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge, and has held teaching posts at Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, the University of California, the University of London and the London School of Economics.
Mr. Ignatieff has written extensively about the challenges Canada faces in the 21st century and the urgency of making Canada’s voice strong and credible on the international stage.
He is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction and the Heinemann Award, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award. Mr. Ignatieff has also been a regular broadcaster and critic on television and radio.
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