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Expert international jury announced for the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize
Joining Jury Chair, , will be returning jurors ( Washington ) and ( Washington ), along with new jurors ( London ) and ( Rome ).
"We are proud of the depth and diversity of this jury. They are profoundly experienced in exploring complex issues in international affairs leading to deepen public debate and understanding," says Judith Gelber , Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board.
Founded in 1989 to honour Canadian diplomat and author Lionel Gelber , the Lionel Gelber Prize is a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book on foreign affairs, published in English. The author of the winning book receives $50,000 CAD at the Lionel Gelber Prize Ceremony, held in Toronto . The award is presented annually by the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
The jury will announce a shortlist of five books in contention for the Prize on and the winner will be revealed in March
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( Toronto ) is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and the Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the
University of Toronto . She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada and a member of the Order of
Canada and the Order of Ontario . She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. Stein is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the Kissinger Center at SAIS at
Johns Hopkins University . Her current research focuses on technology and public policy in the context of great power competition. Last year, she co-chaired the National Advisory Committee on
Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy for the Minister of Global Affairs and currently serves as President of the Daniels Foundation and Chair of the Board of the Halifax Security Forum. Her articles and essays have appeared in
and and the . Her most recent publication is on " " published in the Texas National Security Review in 2023. Her weekly podcast on global affairs, Friday Focus, airs every Friday.
( Washington ) holds the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. She is also Georgetown Law's Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes and co-director of Georgetown's Center on Innovations in Public Safety. Brooks is Adjunct Senior Scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute, ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America and co-founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS). From 2009-2011, she served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. In July 2011 , she received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. She previously served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Brooks is the author of (Simon & Schuster, 2016), which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016. It was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and named one of the five best non-fiction books of the year by s and the . Her most recent book is (Penguin Random House, 2021). Her articles and essays have appeared in , , and , and . Brooks is a co-founder of Deep State Radio, a weekly podcast on foreign policy and she currently serves on the board of the Harper's Magazine Foundation.
( Washington ) is the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University . In 2013, Gavin was appointed the first Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies and Professor of Political Science at MIT . Before joining MIT , he was the Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs and the Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas . Gavin is the Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Texas National Security Review. His writings include , 1958-1971 and . His latest book, , was published by Brookings Institution Press in 2020.
( London ) is a London -based journalist and author. He is Director of the London Defence Conference, the geopolitical gathering held annually in partnership with King's College London. Iain writes a weekly column for and is Director of Engelsberg Ideas for the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation.
( Rome ) is the European bureau chief for , based in Rome . Since 2007, when he moved to Europe , Reguly has covered economic, financial and environmental stories, from the euro zone crisis and the bank bailouts to the rise and fall of Russia's oligarchs and several UN climate summits. Since late 2022, he has been reporting on the Ukraine war for . Reguly has won the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism and was co-winner in 2010 of a National Newspaper Award. In 2010, he won gold in Canada's National Magazine Awards and from SABEW (the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing) in 2015 AND 2020. His book , was published by Sutherland House Books in 2022.
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