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