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Attention IDS Undergraduates! - Where Can International Development Studies Lead You?

ISID and IDSSA will be hosting its 2nd Annual 'Young Professionals in Development Workshop' on Friday, 10 February 2012.

Come listen to Young Professionals working in the Development Sector. Learn what educational, volunteer and work opportunities they encountered and see where these experiences have led them in their career. At the end of the panel presentations, you will have the chance to speak with them in an informal Q & A.

With guests:

Emily Jansons, Executive Office of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Emily Jansons recently started working in the Executive Office of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa as a Research Award Recipient, which includes conducting herown research on private philanthropy in India.Ìý Emily completed her Bachelor’s degree at Queen’s University and her Master’s degree at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, both in History and International Development Studies.Ìý Prior to working at IDRC, Emily worked at McGill University for over a year.Ìý During her undergraduate program she studied on formal exchange in both China and The Netherlands and volunteered with the university branch of Oxfam.Ìý In China she interned with the NGO Roots & Shoots (a Jane Goodall Institute program), working with an unregistered primary school for children of migrant workers in Shanghai.Ìý Through the AIESEC Global Internship program she went to Jaipur, India, where she worked with a local NGO that provides education to disabled children from low-income populations.Ìý Emily has published in Cuizine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures and Undercurrent: The Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Development Studies.

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Jonathan Dignan, Industry Canada
Jonathan DignanÌýcurrently works for Industry Canada as the department's speechwriter. In this role, heÌýwritesÌýspeeches for the Minister of Industry, and the Ministers of State for Science and Technology, and Small Business and Tourism.ÌýBefore assuming his current position inÌýJuly 2011, JonathanÌýserved as aÌýSenior Communications Advisor for the department. He has also been a researcherÌýfor the Public Policy Forum, a national public policy organization, as well asÌýa policy analyst for the Canadian International Development Agency. At both the Public Policy Forum and at CIDA,ÌýJonathan worked extensivelyÌýon issues related to Canadian foreign and development policy and has spent the past few years volunteering in various capacities to help raise awareness in Canada about important issues in development.

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Gabrielle Tardif, Canadian Executive Service Organization CESO

"I have always been interested in languages so I learnt Italian, Spanish and German by way of classes, travels and two student exchanges I did to Lecce, Italy & Siegen, Germany; my host partners are still my best friends.Ìý My first development experience was in Lima, Peru where I worked for a catholic NGO called Fraternidad Cristiana de Personas Enfermas y con Discapacidad for 6 months coordinating patients' care. I went back to do administrative work with Disabled Peoples' International. I have always volunteered either with the elderly, with troubled youth and even in stores similar to Ten Thousand Villages in New Zealand.Ìý I have a bachelor's degree from Mcgill; Major in International Development Studies, Minors in Italian & German Language.Ìý I graduated in 2010, started a Master's degree in Urban Planning at the Université de Montréal and changed program to study Project Management at HÉC. I started working at my present organization in 2011 as an intern, then as a Project Assistant for the Africa-Haiti Program and then in my current position as Client Relations Manager, managing the Aboriginal program for Quebec and the Atlantic."

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Candice Dandurand, DFAIT
Candice began her international career with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, now UN Women) in Nigeria 2006 when she undertook field work as part of her Masters in International and Comparative Politics (Université de Montréal) which focused Ìýon gender and development and democratization in West Africa. With an undergraduate degree in journalism from Concordia, Candice worked on promoting women’s participation in the political process and the repatriation of Liberian refugees from Nigeria.ÌýÌý A path in working in and on fragile states was forged when starting at the Canadian International Development Agency in 2006, working on children and armed conflict, human rights, transitional justice and peacebuilding in a multilateral context. In 2009, Candice became a Foreign Service officer and joined the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START) and was responsible until August 2011 for the deployment of Canadian police officers to peace operations in Haiti, Afghanistan, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Côte D’Ivoire.

Candice is currently a senior policy advisor in START working on complex emergencies in fragile states responsible for the institutional relationship between Canada and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and refugee, migration and humanitarian assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa and frequently travels to Africa.

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Maria Ghazzaoui, Canadian International Development Agency
- Development Officer

Maria works in the Government of Canada, at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), in the Middle East and North Africa unit. She manages projects in the economic growth and education sectors in Jordan, in cooperation with the Government of Jordan as well as Canadian and Jordanian NGOs. Given her passion for the field of international development, she has pursued her education in this field up to the master's level. Her favourite pastime is travelling in the Middle East and in Latin America. She has, over time, volunteered for many organizations, such as the Society for International Development, and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.

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Ethan J. Kay, Biolite

Ethan is a social entrepreneur and academic focused on building inclusive businesses for low-income households in developing countries.

As Managing Director of Emerging Markets for BioLite, Ethan is commercializing an innovative smokeless cookstove for low-income families in developing countries. Prior to BioLite, Ethan designed and launched partnerships betweencorporations and NGOs in India and Bangladesh to give poor rural women access to sustainable livelihoods and villagers access to sanitation, nutrition, and clean energy. He helped build a distribution channel in rural India to supply essential goods and services (e.g., sanitation and groceries) to low-income households, and served for six years as an advisor to Swayam Shikshan Prayog [SSP], an Indian microfinance and rural community development NGO. He also helped design a‘Social Business’ between Grameen Bank and a US Multi-National to retail lowcost, micro-nutritional supplements to malnourished villagers in rural Bangladesh. As a 2011-12 Sauvé Scholar at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, and Ph.D. candidate andFulbright Scholar at the University of Oxford (University College), Ethan is studying how to effectively structure and implement corporate-NGO cleancookstove partnerships in India. He holds an M.Phil. in Politics (Comparative Government) from Oxford, and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and a Sol Feinstone Award recipient. After Wharton, Ethan spent two years in the private sector focused on emerging markets. Ethan is a Board Member of Re-Emerging World, an emerging market strategic advisory firm; Hands Up For Darfur, which raises funds for local relief organizations in Sudan; and Vice President of the Board of Ahuyu, a U.S.-basednon-profit that is expanding access to clean cookstoves for poor people in Latin America. He is also a Senior Fellow of Humanity In Action; served as a district leader in Ohio on the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign; worked as an economic development consultant to UNDP in Chernobyl; and served as Head ofthe U.S. Team on Climate Change for the G8 Research Group.

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