Thomas S. Axworthy
Chairman, Centre for the Study of Democracy
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario

Thomas S. Axworthy is Executive Director of The Historica Foundation of Canada, a Toronto-based charitable organization with the mission to foster the enhancement of Canadianism.  From 1991 to 2003, he was an Adjunct Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and he continues to teach as part of their overseas executive program.  Dr. Axworthy is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, where he has recently become Chairman of the Centre for the Study of Democracy.  Since 2001, he has served as Chairman of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.  In recognition of his outstanding achievement and service in the field of history and heritage, Dr. Axworthy was recently made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

From 1981 to 1984, Dr. Axworthy was Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Pierre Trudeau. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Queen’s University in 1970 and 1979 respectively and was a visiting student at Nuffield College, Oxford University, in 1972-73.

Dr. Axworthy is also the author and editor of several books and numerous articles, including Our American Cousins: The United States Through Canadian Eyes (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1987), Marching to a Different Drummer: An Essay on the Liberals and Conservatives in Convention (Toronto: Stoddart, 1988), Towards a Just Society: The Trudeau Years (Markham: Penguin Books, 1990) and Searching for the New Liberalism: Perspectives, Policies, Prospects (Oakville: Mosaic Press, 2003)