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DESCRIPTION:**Please note that this event is for Max Bell School MPPs and F
 aculty only. A recording of this event will be available. Sign up for the 
 Max Bell School newsletter to receive the recording.**\n\nIn conversation 
 with Max Bell School professors Andrew Potter and Jennifer Welsh\, Ambassa
 dor Rae will discuss the challenges confronting multilateral institutions 
 as they seek to address global problems\, the impact of COVID-19 on develo
 pment and prosperity\, and Canada's current goals and priorities at the UN
 .\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nBob Rae is the Ambassador and Permanent Represen
 tative of Canada to the United Nations in New York.\n\nMr. Rae served as P
 remier of Ontario from 1990-1995\, and interim Leader of the Liberal Party
  of Canada from 2011-2013. He was elected to federal and provincial parlia
 ments 11 times between 1978 and 2013.\n\nMr. Rae received his Honours B.A.
  in Modern History from the University of Toronto\, an M.Phil in Politics 
 as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University\, and graduated from the Universi
 ty of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1977. He was named a Queen’s Counsel in 19
 84.\n\nAs a lawyer in private practice\, Mr. Rae led the restructuring of 
 the Canadian Red Cross\, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra\, and chaired the 
 board of the Royal Conservatory of Music. He also wrote “Lessons to be Lea
 rned” on the Air India bombing\, and “Ontario a Leader in Learning” - a st
 udy of the Ontario higher education system. He was also named to the Secur
 ity and Intelligence Review Committee by then Prime Minister Chrétien.\n\n
 Mr. Rae’s return to Parliament for the constituency of Toronto Centre in 2
 008 led to his appointment as Foreign Affairs spokesman for his party\, an
 d to his election as interim Leader in 2011. Between 2013 and 2020 he taug
 ht law and public policy at the University of Toronto\, and was a partner 
 and senior counsel to the law firm OKT LLP\, specializing in indigenous la
 w and constitutional issues.\n\nMr. Rae is a Fellow of the Forum of Federa
 tions (an organization he co-founded in the 1990’s)\, Massey College\, and
  the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He served as the Chief Nego
 tiator for the 9 First Nations that are members of the Matawa Tribal Counc
 il in Northern Ontario between 2013 and 2018.\n\nIn October 2017\, Mr. Rae
  was appointed as Canada’s Special Envoy to Myanmar. In this role\, he eng
 aged in diplomatic efforts to address the crisis in the country’s Rakhine 
 State and wrote the report “Tell Them We’re Human” in 2018. In March 2020\
 , he was named by Prime Minister Trudeau to be Canada’s Special Envoy on H
 umanitarian and Refugee Issues. This led to his report “A Global Pandemic 
 Requires a Global Response”\, which was made public shortly before his app
 ointment as Ambassador to the UN.\n\nBob Rae is a Privy Councillor\, a Com
 panion of the Order of Canada\, a member of the Order of Ontario\, and has
  numerous awards and honorary degrees from institutions in Canada and arou
 nd the world. In addition to several government reports\, he is the author
  of five books. Along with music\, reading\, and writing\, he loves tennis
 \, golf\, and fishing. He is married to Arlene Perly Rae\, writer and publ
 ic advocate on issues affecting women and children. They have three daught
 ers and five grandchildren.\n
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SUMMARY:A discussion with Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Representative 
 to the United Nations in New York\, Bob Rae
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