ADVISORY COUNCIL
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KEITH BEARDSLEY, B.A.
Former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Rt. Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
Former Chief of Staff to the Minister of Immigration
DR. J. PATRICK BOYER, QC
Author, Publisher and Journalist
Former Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministers of External Affairs and National Defence
Professor of Political Science
CHANTAL DESLOGES, BARRISTER & SOLICITOR, LL.B., C.S.
A Specialist in Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Law
COLONEL R.G. (GEORDIE) ELMS, MSM, CD (Ret'd)
Former Defence Attache to Canadian Embassies - Kabul, Islamabad & Tel Aviv
Retired Senior Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces
LAWRENCE D.LEDERMAN, B.A., MBA
Distinguished Senior Fellow: Chair, Ambassadors Speakers Series.
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) Carleton University
Coordinator: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI): Global Policy Forum Ottawa
Former Canadian Ambassador, Consul General and Chief of Protocol
CARMEN MEDINA
Former Deputy Director, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
Co-author, Rebels at Work; a book that provides ideas on presenting transformational ideas to large, bureaucratic organizations
LINO MIANI, B.A., M.A.
Retired U.S. Army Special Forces Officer
Current US Top Secret & NATO Secret Clearances
Multilingual Counter Terrorism and Counter Proliferation Expert
Former Subject Matter Expert - Special & Intelligence Operations NATO Joint Warfare Centre
ANDREA PAINE, B.A., LL.B.
Former Citizenship Judge
Former Director of Parliamentary Affairs, Chief of Staff, Director of Issues Management and Senior Policy Advisor in
Parliament of Canada
Communications Specialist
TODD B. WHITE, BARRISTER & SOLICITOR, B.A. (Hons), LL.B.
Senior Criminal Defence Counsel
ROB SAALE
Former FBI Special Agent and Executive Leader
Former Director of the Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell (a U.S. Government interagency organization directly responsible to the President of the United States for coordinating recovery efforts for U.S. hostages held abroad)
Former FBI SWAT Commander and SWAT Team member