Author John Haffner, BCL/LLB’06, named Yale World Fellow

Yale University has announced that it has selected McGill Law graduate John Haffner, BCL/LLB’06, as a 2008 Yale World Fellow.

A Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning at Ontario Power Generation (OPG) who has a deep understanding of the intersection of economic, operational, and environmental issues in electricity planning, Haffner is integrally involved in OPG’s corporate and climate change strategy.

Previously, Haffner worked for McKinsey & Co. in Tokyo and as a special policy assistant in the office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. He is the lead author of Japan’s Open Future: an Agenda for Global Citizenship, to be published by Anthem Press in winter 2009, and is working on a second book on global energy policy with McGill Law Associate Professor Richard Janda that will also be published in 2009.

“It is a remarkable honor and I am humbled by being selected to the Yale World Fellows Program,” said Haffner. “I am looking forward to the interdisciplinary challenge of the program and believe my work will benefit enormously from it.”

The Yale World Fellows Program aims to build a global network of emerging leaders and to broaden international understanding. The Program conducts a worldwide competition each year to select 18 highly accomplished men and women from diverse fields and countries for a four-month leadership program at Yale.