Tony Keller
In 20 years in journalism, Tony Keller has been an editorial writer, columnist, and the editorial page editor for The Globe and Mail; a columnist for the Toronto Star and Toronto Life; managing editor of Maclean's; and editor of The Financial Post Magazine.
Currently, Keller is an anchor/reporter for Business News Network (BNN); a columnist for Report on Business Magazine and The Financial Post Magazine; an occasional contributor to The Globe and Mail and National Post; an executive fellow at The Mowat Centre at the University of Toronto; and of course an Agenda Insight essayist.
His most recent essay is called "Quality Over Quantity."
Carla Lucchetta
Carla Lucchetta is a writer, journalist, television producer, and instructor at Ryerson University. Her work appears in The Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, National Post, Vancouver Sun, More magazine, and others. She has written online at CTV.ca, is a regular contributor at yongestreetmedia.ca, and has produced television at CTV, CBC, and Citytv. She holds an English Literature/Creative Writing degree from York University in Toronto. After a 10-year public relations career at various arts and media outlets, including the International Festival of Authors and Chum Television, Lucchetta moved to Vancouver, where she changed her career to journalism. She has also taught at Simon Fraser University’s Writing and Publishing Continuing Education program.
Lucchetta also writes creative non-fiction, and is the co-author of "Mamma Mia! Good Italian Girls Talk Back" (ECW Press, 2004). Her book, "Lonely Boy," an anthology of men’s stories about the loss or absence of their fathers, will be published by Cormorant Books in 2013. Lucchetta also blogs at www.herkind.com, and you can follow her on Twitter: @carrletta.
Her latest Agenda Insight essay is "Austerity and the Average Canadian."
Akaash Maharaj
Akaash Maharaj is someone who has been very active in a number of professional, political, community, and sporting endeavours. He has served as the National Policy Chair for the Liberal Party of Canada; a visiting professional and scholar in peace negotiation and armed conflict resolution at the University of Toronto's Massey College; a consultant with both KPMG and McKinsey & Company; an ethics committee member with the Canadian Olympic Committee; and more.
Maharaj has also served as the CEO of Equine Canada (which is Canada's governing body for Olympic, Paralympic, international, and national equestrianism). He himself has represented Canada at international equestrian competitions, including in the discipline of tent pegging. What is tent pegging, you ask? Click here to find out.
Maharaj has a Master of Arts in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University, and was the first non-European and first overseas student president of the Oxford University Student Union in the history of Oxford. In this capacity, he represented all 15,000 Oxford students to university, municipal, national, and international organs of government.
His most recent Agenda Insight essay is "The Myth of Meritocracy."
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson has been a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto since 1998. Prior to that, he was a professor at Harvard University from 1993 to 1998. In addition to his teaching duties, Peterson is also a practicing clinical psychologist, who sees clients on a regular basis. He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at McGill University.
Peterson is co-founder of www.selfauthoring.com, a suite of programs to help people write about their past, present, and future, in an effort to improve their mental and physical health, and to improve their productivity.
He is also the author of "Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief." TVO ran a 13-part series based on "Maps of Meaning" in 2004. Lectures by Peterson (examples here and here) have been broadcast on TVO's lecture series, Big Ideas, and Peterson has been a frequent guest on The Agenda, in addition to his role as an Agenda Insight essayist.
His latest Agenda Insight essay is "The Growing Divide".
Janice Stein
Janice Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science, and the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, 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 has authored and co-authored several books, most recently "The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar" (2007). She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate, and she is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Her most recent essay on The Agenda is "Standing Up to Syria."
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