Board of Directors
PAC's Board of Directors is made up of both Canadian and African members. The posts of President and Vice-President alternate between representatives from Africa and Canada.
Hon Flora MacDonald, Honorary President
Hon Flora MacDonald was first elected to the Parliament of Canada in 1972 and served as the MP for Kingston and the Islands until 1988. During that time she held three Cabinet posts: Secretary of State for External Affairs (1979-1980); Minister of Employment and Immigration (1984-1986); Minister of Communications and Culture (1986-1988). She was Chairperson of the International Development Research Centre - IDRC (1992-1997) and Chairperson of HelpAge International (1996-2001). She served on the Carnegie Commission on the Prevention of Deadly Conflict (1994-1999). She has also served on the board or advisory council of numerous organizations in Canada and internationally. Hon Flora MacDonald was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in April 1993, and Companion of the Order of Canada in April 1999; Order of Ontario in 1995, and Order of Nova Scotia in 2007. In 1999, she was awarded the Pearson Peace Medal. |
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Mary Rusimbi, President
Mary Rusimbi is a gender specialist. She was until recently Executive Director of the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), an NGO based in Dar Es Salaam that works in Tanzania and the SADC region. She was previously Gender Programme Officer with the Royal Netherlands Embassy, facilitating gender mainstreaming in development projects funded by them. Prior to this, she worked with CIDA, being responsible for Women and Development and Human Resources Development activities in CIDA’s projects in Tanzania. |
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Madelaine Drohan, Vice-President
Madelaine Drohan is an author and journalist who has covered business and politics in Canada, Europe and Africa during a thirty-year career. She is currently Ottawa correspondent for The Economist. Her book, Making a Killing: How and why corporations use armed force to do business, was published in 2003. She is also a director on the following boards: North-South Institute, an independent research institute focused on international development, and the Media & Democracy Group, which promotes good governance through a stronger media in emerging democracies. She conducts journalism workshops for media in Africa and Southeast Asia, with a special focus on business and investigative journalism. |
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Alex Neve, Secretary-Treasurer
Alex Neve is the Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada’s English-speaking Branch, Ottawa. He has participated in Amnesty International missions to Burundi, Chad, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Honduras, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Grassy Narrows, Ontario. He has appeared before numerous Canadian parliamentary committees as well as various UN and Inter-American human rights bodies. He appears and writes regularly in the media and speaks to audiences across the country on a range of human rights topics. He has delivered keynote speeches and lectures at various venues, including Oxford and Harvard Universities. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada. |
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David Kalete
David Kalete is the Civil Society Liaison Manger at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. He was previously Director of Programmes for CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation in Johannesburg, South Africa. A Ugandan national, he has a wealth of senior experience in civil society capacity and alliance building, programme planning, implementation and monitoring, and relations between civil society and government. He has also previously worked with the International Council for Social Welfare, one of the oldest global networks for social development and DENIVA, the national umbrella body for Ugandan NGOs. Prior to that he held a senior post in the Ugandan government, responsible for the coordination of international development assistance. |
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Hamuli Kabarhuza
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Charles Mutasa
Charles Mutasa has been working in civil society policy advocacy and social movement activism for the past 11 years. His main areas of interest have been governance and social and economic justice in Africa. He has written and published extensively on issues related to Africa’s engagement with the international financial institutions - on debt, aid, poverty and health. He currently works as the Head of Programme Policy for Christian Aid’s Africa Division. He was previously Executive Director of the African Forum on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) – a pan African organization seeking to influence policies on the way debt and aid issues are handled in Africa. Prior to this he worked as a Programme Officer for the Poverty Reduction Forum, and as a Senior Policy Analyst with the Social Development Fund in Zimbabwe. |
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Matthew Pearce
Matthew Pearce is the Director General of the Old Brewery Mission, founded in 1889 and one of Canada’s largest organizations serving homeless men and women. Prior to this assignment, the bulk of his career has been devoted to international community development and transcultural education. Matthew has worked overseas in Jamaica and Malawi and in various parts of Canada, including work with First Nations communities in Labrador. Until 2005, he was President-CEO of Canada World Youth, and in this capacity opened programming partnerships with private, public and para-public organizations in a great many countries across Africa, South and Central America, Asia, and Eastern Europel.
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Mirabelle Rodrigues
Mirabelle Rodrigues is Executive Director of the Foundation for International Training (FIT), Markham, Ontario. FIT’s projects range from the promotion of social cohesion through community based organizations in Jamaica, and Bangladesh to ones that promote employment creation and poverty reduction in Egypt, environmental protection in China and training for the public sector in Ethiopia. In relation to governance structures, she has extensive experience in board and committee development and management, and has designed committee structures, protocols and procedures for a variety of donor funded projects.
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Marie-Angélique Savané
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Rebecca Tiessan
Rebecca Tiessen is Associate Professor and Research Chair in Global Studies and Leadership at the Royal Military College and Adjunct Professor, International Development Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. She has carried out field research in Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Kenya. Her research areas include gender mainstreaming, gender inequality, HIV/AIDS and human security, Canadian foreign aid, NGO-donor relations, and global citizenship.
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Alexandre Trudeau
Alexandre Trudeau has authored documentary films about such issues as the Liberian civil war – Liberia. The Secret War, Canadian Aboriginal issues (The Drum Songs, Mohawk Language, Inuit Family Life for Culture Shock), youth and democracy in Yugoslavia - Belgrade: One Year After, middle-class Baghdad during the war on Iraq - Embedded in Baghdad, the security barrier between Israel and the Palestinian territories -The Fence, the detention without charge of Canadian terror suspects - Secure Freedom and most recently the crisis in Chad and Darfur - Refuge. He has produced radio documentaries for the CBC on the troubled legacy of Canadian peacekeeping -- Our Third Chance. He is also a frequent contributor to Canadian print media. He is a director on the board of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the chair of Canada World Youth. He is currently writing a book on modern Chinese society.
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