Rudyard Griffiths

Rudyard Griffiths (born 1970) is the co-founder of the Dominion Institute — a national non-partisan organization in Canada dedicated to the promotion of history and shared citizenship. Mr. Griffiths is also public commentator on Canadian cultural issues, national politics and international affairs and is an advisor to various not-for-profit foundations and organizations in Canada, the United States and the UK.Fact|date=February 2007

The "Dominion Institute" was co-founded by Rudyard Griffiths in 1997. The non-partisan Dominion Institute first rose to public prominence in 1998 when it released a series of Ipsos-Reid surveys and policy papers that documented Canadians' poor knowledge of their country's history and political institutions. The Dominion Institute functions with 7 full-time staff and 1,800 volunteers across Canada. The Institute's principal activities are organizing large-scale public dialogue campaigns on various national and international issues, producing television documentaries, publishing books and operating free educational programmes for teachers and community groups. Rudyard Griffiths stepped down as executive director in July 2008.

Rudyard Griffiths is also the co-founder of the Salon Speakers Series in " [http://www.salonspeakers.com/] " in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. Past presenters at the Series include Christopher Hitchens, Gore Vidal, James Carville, Bernard-Henri Levy and David Gergen. He is also the co-organiser of the Munk Debates " [http://www.munkdebates.com/] "

Rudyard Griffiths is an advisor to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington D.C. assisting in the development of its institute on Canada-US relations. He sits on a number of not-for-profit boards including the Stratford Festival, the Dominion Institute and the Canadian Institute for Citizenship and is a member of the advisory boards of the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization and the U.K. based Ditchley Foundation. In September 2008, he was appointed Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Canadian Forces College. In 2006, he was recognised by "The Globe and Mail" as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40.

Rudyard Griffiths is columnist with the "National Post" and political commentator for CP24.

He claimed in a 2002 interview with Penny Clark that he was a graduate of the Ontario public school system [http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/css/Css_37_1/ARrudyard_griffiths.htm] . In fact, he attended the prestigious (and private) Lakefield College School from 1987 to 1988, and carried on to an exclusive Canadian French Language School in Nice France, where he graduated from high school in 1989.

Bibliography

*Editor, "Great Questions of Canada", Stoddart, 2000
*Contributor, "Passages to Canada", Doubleday, 2001
*Contributor, "Story of a Nation", Doubleday, 2002
*Editor, "Lafontaine-Baldwin Lectures, Vol. I", Penguin, 2002
*Contributor, "Our Story", Doubleday, 2004
*Co-author, "Rare Courage", McClelland & Stewart, 2005
*Editor, "Lafontaine-Baldwin Lectures", Vol II, Penguin, 2006
*Editor, "Great Questions of Canada, 2nd Edition", Key Porter Books, 2007
*Co-Editor, "American Power: Potential and Limits in the 21st Century", Key Porter Books, 2007
*Co-Editor, "The Race to the White House", Key Porter Books, 2008
*Editor, "American Myths", Key Porter Books, 2008
*Co-founder, "Salon Speakers Series", http://www.salonspeakers.com/
*Co-organiser, "The Munk Debates", http://www.munkdebates.com/

External links

* [http://www.dominion.ca Dominion Institute website]
* [http://www.salonspeakers.com Salon Speakers Series website]
* [http://www.munkdebates.com Munk Debates website]
* [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1420 Canada Institute website]