Rudyard Griffiths
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Rudyard Griffiths (born 1970) is the founder and the executive director of the Dominion Institute — a national non-partisan organization in Canada dedicated to the promotion of history and shared citizenship. Mr. Griffiths is also public commentator on Canadian cultural issues, national politics and international affairs and is an advisor to various not-for-profit foundations and organizations in Canada, the United States and the UK.[citation needed]
The Dominion Institute was co-founded by Rudyard Griffiths in 1997. The non-partisan Dominion Institute first rose to public prominence in 1998 when it released a series of Ipsos-Reid surveys and policy papers that documented Canadians' poor knowledge of their country's history and political institutions. The Dominion Institute functioned with 7 full-time staff and 2,200 volunteers across Canada. The Institute's principal activities are organizing large-scale public dialogue campaigns on various national and international issues, producing television documentaries, publishing books and operating free educational programmes for teachers and community groups.
Rudyard Griffiths is also the co-founder of the Grano Speakers Series in Toronto, Canada. The Grano Speakers Series brings prominent thinkers to Toronto to discuss international issues affecting Canada. Past presenters at the Grano Series include Christopher Hitchens, William Kristol, Michael Ignatieff, Bernard-Henri Levy and Fouad Ajami. Each of the addresses given at the Grano Speakers Series talks are published in the The Toronto Star and reported on by the Canadian media.
Rudyard Griffiths is an advisor to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington D.C. assisting in the development of its institute on Canada-US relations. He sits on a variety of not-for-profit board including the Stratford Festival, Adrienne Clarkson's Canadian Institute for Citizenship, the Aurea Foundation and is a Canadian member of the UK based Ditchley Foundation. In 2006, he was recognised by the Globe and Mail as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40.
Rudyard Griffiths is columnist with The Toronto Star and political commentator for Citytv.
He claimed in a 2002 interview with Penny Clark that he was a graduate of the Ontario public school system [1]. In fact he attended the prestigious (and private) Lakefield College School from 1987 to 1988, and carried on to an exclusive Canadian French Language School in Nice France, where he graduated from high-school in 1989.
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- Editor, Great Questions of Canada, Stoddart, 2000
- Contributor, Passages to Canada, Doubleday, 2001
- Contributor, Story of a Nation, Doubleday, 2002
- Editor, Lafontaine-Baldwin Lectures, Vol. I, Penguin, 2002
- Contributor, Our Story, Doubleday, 2004
- Co-author, Rare Courage, McClelland & Stewart, 2005
- Editor, Lafontaine-Baldwin Lectures, Vol II, Penguin, 2006
- Co-founder, "Grano Series", http://www.granoseries.com/
