Biographies of Panelists and
Speakers
Michael Berry has been Special Coordinator for the Reconstruction of Former Yugoslavia in Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
since October 1995. After graduating from McGill University and brief assignments in the Departments of Finance and Justice, Mr. Berry joined Foreign Affairs in 1964. Since then he has served abroad in Germany, the United Kingdom, Singapore, France and
Australia. He was High Commissioner to Singapore (1979-82), Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1988-91), and High Commissioner to Australia (1991-95).
Lenard Cohen is a Pr
ofessor of Poltical Science at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where he has ben teaching since 1974. Dr. Cohen received his P.hD. from Columbia University. His main area of specialization is East European politics, with a particular focus o
n the Balkans. His published books and articles include: Political Cohesion in a Fragile Mosaic: The Yugoslav Experience (1983), The Socialist Pyramid: Elites and Power in Yugoslavia (1989) and Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Poli
tics in Transition (1995). His current research work includes forthcoming studies of political developments in Serbia and Croatia. Professor Cohen served on Canadian delegations helping to monitor elections in Serbia in 1992 and in Bosnia in Septemb
er 1996.
Richard J. Goldstone was Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda (1994-96) and has been a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa since July 1994. Educated and train
ed as a lawyer in South Africa (University of Witwatersrand), he has been a judge in various courts in that country including the Transvaal Supreme Court (1980-89) and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa (1989-94). He was Chairman
of his country's Commission of Inquiry regarding Public Violence and Intimidation (1991-94) and is currently Chairman of the Standing Advisory Committee on Company Law and President of the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of
Offenders.
Paul Koring has been a foreign correspondent since 1980 initially with Canadian Press and Southam News Service. He joined The Globe and Mail in 1987 and worked primarily in Europe and the Middle East, covering the fall
of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent "revolutions" in formerly Communist Europe including substantial coverage of the Slovene, Croatian and Bosnian wars. He returned to Canada in the autumn of 1995 and was based in the Ottawa bureau covering mainly defe
nce issues. Currently Mr. Koring is on a one-year leave of absence from the newspaper, living in Washington, D.C. Born in Montreal, he was educated at the University of Toronto and New York University.
John Lampe has been Director of East
European Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. since 1987. He is also Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Educated at Harvard University and the Universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin (P.hD.), he was a U
.S. Foreign Service Officer in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria (1965-67). Dr. Lampe is co-author of Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950: From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations (1982), which won the Vucinich Prize of the American Association for th
e Advance of Slavic Studies, author of The Bulgarian Economy in the 20th Century (1986), co-author of Yugoslav-American Economic Relations since World War II (1990) and, most recently, author of Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Co
untry (1996), published by Cambridge University Press.
John A. MacInnis is a Senior Fellow at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Nova Scotia. Earlier this year, he was a member of the International Crisis Group's Bosnia team in Saraje
vo, assisting in the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accord. He retired from active military service in 1995 with the rank of Major-General. A graduate of College Militaire Royale de St.-Jean and Queen's University, General MacInnis joined the Royal
Regiment of Canadian Artillery in 1961 and in 1979 took command of his regiment. He was Canadian Contingent Commander and Chief of Staff of UN Forces in Cyprus (1986-88), in senior National Defence positions in Ottawa and Halifax (1988-93), and Deputy Fo
rce Commander and Commander Canadian Contingent of the UN Forces in the former Yugoslavia in 1993. He also helped set up a special UN/NATO planning team prior to IFOR and was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross for his work on UN duty in the former Yugo
slavia.
John Reid is a Member of the Provisional Election Commission overseeing the elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A Liberal Member of the Canadian Parliament representing Kenora-Rainy River in northwestern Ontario (1965-1984), he serve
d on and chaired several parliamentary committees, was Parliamentary Secretary to two Presidents of the Privy Council, and was Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations (1978-79). Mr. Reid was Executive Director of the Forum for Young Canadians
(1984-90) and President of the Canadian Nuclear Association (1990-95). Active in various parliamentary groups, he was a UN election observer in Namibia in 1989. He took his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Manitoba and pursued doctoral studies in hi
story at the University of Toronto.
Christine Wallich has been with the World Bank since 1977. She is at present Country Director, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central Europe Department. She has been Acting Director for the Balkan countries a
nd lead economist in the Central Europe Department (working on Hungary, Poland, Albania, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Croatia). Her areas of specialization are public finance and fiscal policy, especially local government finance, as wel
l as monetary policy and financial markets. She has recently published two books on local public finance in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: Russia and the Challenge of Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization of the Socialist State. Ms.
Wallich has a P.hD. in economics from Yale University.
John Watson has been Executive Director of CARE Canada since 1987. Mr. Watson was educated in political economy at the University of Toronto, from which he received his P.hD. in 1981
. He served for many years with the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) including as Field Director in Zimbabwe (1981-83), and later as Director, Program Development (1983-85) and Deputy Executive Director (1985-87). Dr. Watson has written on vari
ous international issues in The Ottawa Citizen and has published in
scholarly journals both on development assistance and on the influence of
Harold Innis on Canadian life.
Working Groups Chairs and
Rapporteurs
Democracy and the Rule of Law
Chair: Ron Gould, Director, International Programs, Elections Canada
Rapporteur: John Graham, former diplomat and OSCE Senior Elections Officer, Bosnia
The Securit
y Dimension
Chair: Fen Hampson, Political Science Department, Carleton University
Rapporteur: Leanne Fischer, Parliamentary Centre
Economic and Social Reconstruction
Chair:
Mihailo Crnobrnja, Economics Department, McGill University and former Yugoslav Ambassador to the European Community
Rapporteur: Barbara Shenstone, CARE Canada