Fen Osler Hampson

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Fen Osler Hampson is Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University and President of the World Refugee & Migration Council. He was a Distinguished Fellow and Director of Global Security Research at The Centre for International Governance Innovation. [1] [2] He is Co-Director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance. [3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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Early life and education

Hampson earned a B.A. (Hon.) from the University of Toronto. He completed an MSc. (Econ.) degree (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and subsequently a Ph.D. and an A. M. degree from Harvard University (both with distinction).

Career

After graduation, Hampson worked as a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science & Technology at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he coordinated the project on Avoiding Nuclear War and Arms Control. [4] In 1986 he became an assistant professor at the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and later an associate professor and director of its Project in International Security. [5]

Hampson's research and writing focuses on international and regional security and conflict management, [6] [7] preventative diplomacy, [8] [9] Canadian foreign policy, and the Middle East. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy Magazine, Policy Options, the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, and elsewhere. He is a frequent commentator on the CBC, CTV, Sun Media, and Global TV news networks. He writes columns for iPOLITICS on the topic of international affairs, and contributes to Diplomat and International Canada Magazine.

Hampson has served on the boards of directors of the Lester B. Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, the Social Sciences Foundation at the Joseph Korbel School of International Studies, and the Parliamentary Centre in Ottawa, Canada. He chaired the Human Security Track of the Helsinki Process on Globalization and Democracy and the Working Group on International Institutions and International Cooperation. He was Oversight Coordinator for the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism, and Security.

From 2014 to 2016, Hampson served as the Global Commission on Internet Governance’s Co-Director, which educates and promotes global internet access while supporting the free flow of ideas and freedom of digital expression.

From 2012 to 2019, Hampson served as a Distinguished Fellow and the Director of Global Security for the Centre for International Governance Innovation, an internationally recognized think tank that focuses on international issues at the intersection of global governance and technology.

Currently, Dr. Hampson is the President of the World Refugee & Migration Council, an organization that engages in public policy advocacy, research, and project implementation to address the increasing global refugee crisis. He is also the Head of Secretariat and a member of the Steering Committee for the North and Central American Task Force on Migration, a joint initiative between academia, former policymakers, civil society, and business leaders to develop a regional strategy to address the Central American migration crisis.

Academia

From 2000 to 2012, Dr. Hampson served as the Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Currently, he serves as a Professor of International Affairs and a Chancellor’s Professor at NPSIA. Dr. Hampson’s courses focus on a variety of pertinent topics in international affairs, including internet governance, international negotiation, Canadian foreign policy, international organization, and conflict resolution and analysis.

Publications

Dr. Hampson is the author or co-author of 10 books. He has edited 26 volumes, and written and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. His newest book, Brave New Canada (co-authored with Derek Burney) was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2014. [10] Other recent publications include The Global Power of Talk: Negotiating America’s Interests (with I. William Zartman, 2011) and Rewiring Regional Security, [11] co-edited with Chester Crocker and Pamela Aall, 2012.

Dr. Hampson’s publications have been finalists for both the Grawmeyer Prize for the best book on World Order in 2017, as well as the Donner Book Price for the best book in Public Policy in 2015.

Recognition

Hampson received a Research & Writing Award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He also received a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace.

In 2022, Dr. Hampson received the ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association (ISA), for his scholarship contributions and accomplishments pertaining to the study and development of international relations in Canada. He also received the ISA’s Peace Distinguished Scholar Award in 2018.  

Selected bibliography

Edited volumes

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