FEBRUARY 9th @ 10:00, CENTENNIAL CENTRE BALLROOM
Join Macdonald faculty, staff, students and alumni for the annual celebration of Sir William C. Macdonald, founder of Macdonald College, one of McGill's greatest benefactors and the fourth Chancellor of the University.
Sir William Macdonald planted seeds of change. At McGill, he invested in people and ideas. Outside our gates, he helped build a nation. We have invited three dynamic and thought-provoking speakers to plant some seeds of their own.
A light lunch will be served (Catering by: Miss Prêt à Manger)
ADMISSION: First come - first serve. Seating limited to 500. Doors close at 10h05.
ALL THOSE IN ATTENDANCE WILL BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN ONE OF TWO iPADS.
SPEAKERS:
CHEF GUILLERMO RUSSO
Guillermo Russo, BA’05, may have a degree in Industrial Relations and International Development, but he’s been keeping busy reinventing a Montreal culinary landmark and working under Michelin star Chef Gordon Ramsay.- Wendy Helfenbaum
Born in Peru, the son of a diplomat, Guillermo has lived and travelled across the globe. His roots are set deepest in Montreal where he completed CEGEP at Marianopolis College and university at McGill. It was during the time spent pursuing academia that Guillermo found himself working in kitchens across the city, earning income to pay for his tuition.
Never one to sit still, after completing his McGill degree, he enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts Institute with the hopes of honing some of the skills he had acquired throughout the years. Upon completion, he decided to associate with only the best and worked at some of the country's most reputable and award-winning restaurants. His continuous strive for perfection, hard work and dedication were all crucial to meeting Chef Gordon Ramsay and becoming an Executive Chef for his team.
Guillermo will join us to tell us his story for Macdonald Campus Founder's Day.
Read about Guillermo in the McGill News.
CHISTOPHER RAGAN
Christopher Ragan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University in Montreal, and currently holds the David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. From January 2009 through June 2010, he was the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance in Ottawa where he served as a senior advisor to the Minister and other senior Finance officials. In the 2004-05 academic year, he served as the Special Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Canada. For several years (with a few breaks for his stints in Ottawa) he has been a member of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council. Since his appointment to McGill in 1989, Chris Ragan has taught a wide variety of courses, at undergraduate and graduate levels, and in 2007 he was awarded the Noel Fieldhouse teaching prize in the Faculty of Arts. His passion for teaching extends also to his writing. Ragan is the co-author with Richard Lipsey of Economics, which after thirteen editions is still the most widely used introductory economics textbook in Canada.
Ragan’s academic research deals mainly with the role of economic policy, most recently the objectives and conduct of monetary policy. He has published several articles in economics journals including Economica, Labour Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Business Economics, Policy Options, and the Bank of Canada Review. His 2004 book, co-edited with his McGill colleague William Watson, is called Is the Debt War Over? Dispatches from Canada’s Fiscal Frontline. In 2007 he published A Canadian Priorities Agenda, co-edited with Jeremy Leonard and France St-Hilaire from the Institute for Research on Public Policy. Chris Ragan often writes economic columns for newspapers, including the National Post, the Montreal Gazette and the National Post Magazine, and during the mid 1990s was the Editor-in-Chief of World Economic Affairs. Ragan teaches microeconomics regularly for McKinsey & Company, a leading international management consulting firm, and also teaches in McGill's Executive MBA program.
Ragan received his Bachelor’s degree in economics in 1984 from the University of Victoria and his Master’s degree in economics from Queen’s University in 1985. He then moved to Cambridge, MA where he completed his Ph.D. in economics at M.I.T. in 1989. See his personal website at McGill for downloads of his published research as well as copies of his magazine editorials and articles: http://people.mcgill.ca/christopher.ragan/
DALAI LAMA FELLOWS ALEX PRITZ and CHRISTIAN ELLIOTT
Alex Pritz (pictured at left) is a third-year student studying in the McGill School of Environment. Involvement with the student film collective Developing Pictures drew Alex to Haiti and Kenya, where he started his career as an amateur filmmaker. Since then, he has been awarded the McGill Dalai Lama Fellowship in order to initiate the Iwastology project, a program connecting high school students from Montreal and the Philippines through film and online discussions about environmental issues. Alex sees film and multimedia as a powerful tool for raising awareness and creating change both in the classroom and in the field.
Christian Elliott (pictured at right) is co-founder and Director of Operations with Developing Pictures Media, a student organization that strives to take full advantage of the power of media to tell the stories of the unseen. His work in Haiti and with Developing Pictures has led him to participate in initiatives including “Developing Bamboo”, a Haitian reforestation project, and starting in 2011, as a McGill Dalai Lama fellow for environmental education and cross-cultural exchange between students in Canada and the Philippines. Christian believes that we are all capable of eliciting powerful positive change with the immense social, technological, and political opportunities and resources we have living in the developed world; he is a strong advocate for his generation taking on the responsibility of being the heralds for international and environmental justice.
Read about Alex and Christian in the McGill Reporter and in the Faculty newsletter.
THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED BY:
The Macdonald Stewart Foundation
The McGill 190th Anniversary Committee
School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition