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Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan is the Dean of the College of Arts at the University of Guelph and a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy. An internationally renowned feminist philosopher, her main research interests lie in the area of contemporary normative ethics, applied ethics, and feminist philosophy.

Samantha is President of the Canadian Philosophical Associationand Co-editor and co-founder, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly and is the co-editor of eight books and author of more than 25 journal articles and book chapters.

Samantha is  a committed blogger, posting frequently at Fit Is a Feminist Issue, the blog she started with Tracy Isaacs. She also writes at the Feminist Philosophers Blog.

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Tracy Isaacs

Tracy Isaacs is the author, with Samantha Brennan, of Fit at Mid-Life: A Feminist Fitness Journey, to be published by Greystone Books. She has developed two personal narrative radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s popular radio program Outfront and several of her personal essays have been published in magazines and edited volumes.

Tracy blogs about fitness and feminist issues at Fit is a Feminist Issue and has guest posted for Spry Living: Healthy Living and Wellness for Women.

She is a Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Women’€™s Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario and am also a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. She obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Asaf Siniver

Asaf Siniver is Associate Professor (Reader) in International Security at the University of Birmingham, UK. He specialises in the politics, diplomacy and history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with particular emphasis on the role of external actors in the conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He has published widely on these topics and held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2011-2013) on the Third Party Mediation in the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

His books include The October 1973 War: Politics, Diplomacy, Legacy published by Oxford University Press in 2013; International Terrorism post-9/11: Comparative Dynamics and Responses which Routledge published in 2010; and Nixon, Kissinger and US Foreign Policy Making: The Machinery of Crisis published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.

His most recent book is Abba Eban: A Biography, published by Overlook Press in the US and Duckworth Press in the UK.

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Mark R. Tercek

Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the global conservation organization known for its intense focus on collaboration and getting things done for the benefit of people and nature.

A former managing director for Goldman Sachs, where he spent 25 years, Mark brings deep business experience to his role leading the Conservancy, which he joined in 2008. He is a champion of the idea of natural capital-valuing nature for its own sake as well as for the services it provides for people, such as clean air and water, productive soils and a stable climate. Mark’s book, Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature, written with Jonathan Adams, and published by Basic Books, explores why responsible stewardship of nature is of the utmost importance to businesses, governments and societies.

Growing up as a city kid in Cleveland, Mark was a late-bloomer to conservation. It was becoming a parent that sparked his passion for nature. “I want to be able to look my kids in the eye,” he says, “and tell them I did all I could to leave the world a better place.”

After more than two decades as an investment banker heading various business units for Goldman Sachs, Mark found an outlet for his interest in conservation when he was tapped to develop the firm’s environmental strategy. Inspired by the opportunity to help businesses, governments and environmental organizations work together in new, innovative ways, Mark left Goldman Sachs in 2008 to head up The Nature Conservancy.

Mark is a member of several boards and councils, including Resources for the Future, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Blake C. Clayton

Blake Clayton is a member of the Integrated Oil and Gas equity research team at Citigroup. Prior to joining Citigroup, Dr. Clayton was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he currently serves as an adjunct fellow on energy.

He received a doctorate from Oxford University. The recipient of the University of Chicago Endowed Fellowship, he holds dual master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and Cambridge University.

His book, Market Madness: A Century of Oil Panics, Crises, and Crashes was published by Ocford University Press.

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