Rudyard Griffiths
Rudyard Griffiths (born 1970) is a TV co-anchor, author, and social entrepreneur. He is the co-host of the daily business and politics television show National Affairs on the CTV News Channel. He has edited twelve collections of essays on Canadian and international political and historical themes and is the author of Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto (2009). He has also been a columnist with the National Post and The Toronto Star. He is the co-founder of the Salon Speakers Series in [1] in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. Presenters at the Series include Christopher Hitchens, David Gergen, James Carville, Gore Vidal and Paul Volcker. He is also the moderator and organiser of the semi-annual Munk Debates. [2] Recent Munk Debates participants include Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, Fareed Zakaria and Niall Ferguson.
Rudyard Griffiths is the co-founder of the Dominion Institute; a national charity founded in 1997 to promote history and civics education in Canadian high schools. He stepped down as executive director in July 2008. In September 2009, the Dominion Institute merged with the Historica Foundation to create Canada’s largest history and citizenship NGO. He is a founding board member of the combined organization. He also sits on the boards of the Global Centre for Pluralism; an international initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan and the non-partisan Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Canadian advisory board of the U.K. based Ditchley Foundation.
In 2006, Rudyard Griffiths was recognised by The Globe and Mail as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40. In September 2008, he was appointed Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Canadian Forces College. He studied history and political science at Trinity College, University of Toronto and completed a master's degree in political theory at Cambridge University.
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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
- Editor, Great Questions of Canada, 2nd Edition, Key Porter Books, 2007
- Co-Editor, American Power: Potential and Limits in the 21st Century, Key Porter Books, 2007
- Co-Editor, The Race to the White House, Key Porter Books, 2008
- Editor, American Myths: What Canadians Think They Know About the U.S., Key Porter Books, 2008
- Editor, Canada 2020: Twenty Leading Voices Imagine Canada's Future, Key Porter Books, 2008
- Editor, 101 Things Canadians Should Know About Canada, Key Porter Books, 2008
- Author, Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto, Douglas & McIntyre, 2009
- Editor, The Munk Debates: Volume I, Anansi Books, 2010
- Editor, Hitchens vs. Blair: The Munk Debate on Religion, Anansi Books, 2011
- Co-Editor, The Munk Debate on China, Anansi Books, 2011
- Co-Editor, The Munk Debate on The North American Economy, Anansi Books, 2012
