Speaker Details
Right Honourable Kim Campbell
Former Canadian Prime Minister, and Chair, Foundation for Effective Governance International Advisory Board
Kim Campbell served as Canada's 19th and first female Prime Minister in 1993. She previously held cabinet portfolios as Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and Minister of National Defence and Minister of Veterans' Affairs. She was the first woman to hold the Justice and Defence portfolios, and the first woman to be Defence Minister of a NATO country. Campbell participated in major international meetings including the Commonwealth, NATO, G-7 Summit, and the United Nations General Assembly.
After her tenure as Prime Minister, Campbell was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Study of Press and Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She served as the Canadian Consul-General in Los Angeles from 1996 to 2000. Then in 2001, Campbell became a Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School; she was then invited to join the faculty as a lecturer and remains an Honorary Fellow.
From 2004 until 2006, Campbell served as Secretary General of the Club of Madrid, an organization of former heads of government and state who work to promote democratization through peer relations with leaders of transitional democracies. She is a founding member and additionally served as its Acting President in 2002 and Vice President from 2003 to 2004.
Campbell also served as Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL) from 1999 to 2003. The Council's membership consists of women who hold or have held the office of President or Prime Minister in their own country. From 2003 to 2005, Campbell served as President of the International Women's Forum, a global organization of women of significant and diverse achievement.
Campbell is Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Foundation for Effective Governance (www.feg.org.ua/en) in Ukraine. She is also a Trustee of the Crisis Group, the Salk Institute, and the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at King's College London. In addition, she serves on the advisory boards of numerous international organizations such as the Arab Democracy Foundation, Global Security Institute (GSI), and the Middle Powers Initiative (MPI). She is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, (the West Coast affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations). Campbell is the chair of the steering committee the World Movement for Democracy,as well as a member of the WMD's Eminent Persons Group for the Defending Civil Society project. Her corporate director experience includes the high tech, bio-tech and medical devices industries and she is a consultant on issues related to democratization, governance and leadership. Ms. Campbell also does speaking engagements all over the world on those issues as well as gender and power, climate change and Canadian/American relations. Learn more about Former Prime Minister Campbell at www.kimcampbell.com.
