Lloyd Axworthy

Lloyd Axworthy

In May of 2004, he was appointed to his current job as president of the University of Winnipeg.

Axworthy is Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch. He also serves on the advisory council of USC Center on Public Diplomacy and of Fair Vote Canada, and is an endorser of the Genocide Intervention Network and International Student Exchange, Ontario.

In February 2005, Axworthy gave a lecture entitled "The Responsibility to Protect: Prescription for a Global Public Domain" at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series.

In 2006, Axworthy supported Bob Rae's bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, but supported Stéphane Dion after Rae dropped off the ballot.

External links

* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=17&s=M Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=7763 Order of Canada Citation]

Publications

* "Navigating a New World", Knopf Canada Publishing, 2004
* "Liberals at the Border" , University of Toronto Press, 2004
* "The Axworthy Legacy", Edited by O. Hampson, N. Hillmer, M. Appel Molot, Oxford University Press, 2001

References


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