Guest Speakers
Every year, SOMA invites a leading figure in current affairs to give a keynote speech at our opening ceremony; our past speakers have included Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Dr. Peter Singer, Special Advisor to the Director General and Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization, and David Morley, CEO of UNICEF Canada.
Our guest speakers for SOMA 51 are Danielle Goldfarb, Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance and Innovation, Pericles Lewis, Dean of Yale College, and Sunil Johal, David and Ann Wilson Professor in Public Policy and Society at the University of Toronto.
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Danielle Goldfarb
Canada Institute Global Fellow, Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Public Policy Advisor to Mila (Quebec Institute on Artificial Intelligence), Board of the Toronto Association for Business and Economics, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
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Pericles Lewis
Dean of Yale College, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of comparative literature at Yale University, Founding President of Yale-NUS College
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Sunil Johal
David and Ann Wilson Professor in Public Policy and Society at the University of Toronto, Vice President of Public Policy at the CSA Group, Former Policy Director at the University of Toronto’s Mowat Centre
