The Jeanne Sauvé Foundation joined the blue-ribbon group of sponsors of the Canada 2020 Conference in Ottawa (October 1-3). JSF participants included President Désirée McGraw; Special Advisor Liane Benoit; Jeanne Sauvé Fellows David Donovan and Sadia ...
Words of wisdom for leaders young and old, global and local, from Estelle Metayer, an adjunct professor with McGill University’s leadership business programs “Keep learning” is the mantra of modern management. You have to keep up with the constant...
2008-09 Jeanne Sauvé Fellow Tomer Avital has never shied away from confrontation on behalf of what he believes is right. This time, his advocacy of transparency for all members of the Israeli Knesset has earned him some powerful opponents. The Jerusalem ...
Dr. Sheema Khan, who gave the 2013 Jeanne Sauvé Address: “Let’s all stand on guard for each other, and against the hate that has destroyed societies elsewhere.” In an opinion piece published in the Globe & Mail on 14 October, Dr. Khan w...
Céline Galipeau to deliver 2014 Jeanne Sauvé Address Radio-Canada’s first anchorwoman will speak on Democracy in the Balance: Journalism in Canada and around the World The fifth Annual Jeanne Sauvé Address will be given on Friday, 7 November by Céli...
“With the [African] continent’s population forecast to double by 2050, there is hardly a better time to invest in women and girls.” By Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique, co-chair of the High-Level Task Force for the Internatio...
Sauvé Senior Fellows, Anita Nowak and Brett House gave presentations at the Social Science Festival 2014 SUCCESS, held at Montreal’s Vanier College October 20-24. Anita spoke on The “Soft” Side of Leadership: Why Empathy is more Powerful than y...
Before he hit eighteen, Fred Swaniker had lived in Ghana, Gambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. What he learned from a childhood across Africa was that while good leaders can’t make much of a difference in societies with strong institutions, in countries w...
On October 29, 2014 nine women gathered at the Sauvé House to explore accelerating societal change through strategic connections. This was not so much a discussion about gender equality as it was about under-represented groups not being in enough leaders...
Sauvé Fellows Mame Diarra Bousso Ndiaye (2012 -13) and Mirwais Nahzat (2009-10) attended International Development: Bridging the Worlds of Theory, Policy and Practice at the McGill Institute for the Study of International Development (IISD). With the sup...
Concordia University to house new United Nations program for global sustainability Montreal one of five global hubs for Future Earth Montreal, July 8, 2014 – The International Council for Science (ICSU) has announced that Montreal will be one of five gl...
Radio Canada’s first anchorwoman will speak on Democracy in the Balance: Journalism in Canada and around the World The fifth Annual Jeanne Sauvé Address will be given on Friday, 7 November by Céline Galipeau, Radio- Canada journalist, foreign correspo...
