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BEREL RODAL, Vice Chair
Berel Rodal is Vice Chair of ICNC.
Since 1967 Mr. Rodal has provided executive leadership
and strategic, planning, and management advice to governments,
and since 1990, to companies. His professional experience
as a senior official in the Government of Canada included
policy, planning, and executive responsibilities in the
foreign affairs, international trade, defense, security
and intelligence, economic and social domains, and in
managing across jurisdictions; his career involved him
in many of the central challenges facing government during
his twenty-two years of public service. He served in
the Department of External Affairs and in the Cabinet/Privy
Council Office in the Government of Canada; as Secretary
of the Steering Committee on national unity in the Cabinet
Office during the period of the (first) Quebec referendum;
as Director-General of the Policy Secretariat in the
Department of National Defence; and as a member of Canada’s
negotiating team in the Canada-US Free-Trade negotiations.
He has lectured in Canada, the U.S.,
Europe and Japan on governance and the state, federalism
and intergovernmental relations, nationalism and political
identity, international relations, ‘information-age’ issues,
international trade, and strategic policy/international
security affairs. He is the author of a number of publications
on these subjects. His most recent publication is the
book The
Somalia Experience in Strategic Perspective.
He was born in Montreal in 1943 and
was educated at McGill University and Balliol College,
Oxford. He is married and has six children.
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