Sauvé Encore! 2014

“Sauvé Encore! is an exceptional opportunity to reconnect and engage with the broader Sauvé community. I highly recommend this program to any Sauvé Fellow who is looking to redefine and enhance their impact on critical national and international ...

WEF Outlook cites Leadership Crisis

The Outlook on the Global Agenda 2015 features an analysis of the Top 10 trends which will preoccupy our experts for the next 12-18 months as well as the key challenges facing the world’s regions, an overview of global leadership and governance, and the...

Douglas C. Robertson March 15, 1937 – December 26, 2014

The Sauvé community mourns the sudden death of Douglas Robertson, a great friend and supporter of the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation.  Douglas and  his wife, Honor, were a warm and caring host family to Sauvé Scholars Pyone Kyaw  (2008-09) and Thiha Tun (2...

Sauvé Serendipity

It’s already four months since the Phil Communications team moved into its new quarters in the Jeanne Sauvé House and from everyone’s perspective, this is cause to celebrate. Phil has been working with the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation since Spring 2014 o...

The Duty of Civility

Written almost 20 years ago – before the word ‘blog’ had entered our vocabulary – this essay by the late Robert Stewart, editor of the Royal Bank Letter is singularly appropriate to the tragic events in France of the past days. Civ...

Sauvé Foundation and Engineers Without Borders

The Jeanne Sauvé Foundation is very pleased to be a sponsor of the 2015 National conference of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), to be held in Montréal from the 16th to the 18th of January. With the theme of Unite to Unlock, the conference promises to be...

Launch of Sauvé Alumni Collaboration Fund

The Jeanne Sauvé Foundation (JSF) has launched the Alumni Collaboration Fund to support collaborative Alumni projects that promote novel, multifaceted, ways of addressing key global challenges through public leadership. In a message to all Sauvé Alumni,...

Sauvé in Davos (World Economic Forum 2015)

Sauvé Senior Fellow Brett House is participating in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland all of this week. Both Brett and the Foundation’s Executive Director, Désirée McGraw were elected WEF Young Global Leaders (Y...

ISID Conference: Higher Education & Development in Africa

Dr. Philip Oxhorn, Founding Director of McGill’s Institute for the Study of International Development, announces that ISID is hosting an important two-day conference in March on Maximizing the Contribution of Higher Education to Development in Afric...

Jeanne Sauvé “Woman of Firsts”

January 28 is a special date in the story of The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé, a “Woman of Firsts” It was on this date in 1984 that Madame Sauvé was appointed the first woman Governor General of Canada by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Thro...