Date: Thursday, April 13, 2023, 4:30 – 7:30 p.m. PDT
Location: SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business (500 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, V6C 1W6), Room 1200-1500
Agenda:
- 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. – Registration and book signing
- 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. – Book presentation and panel discussion
- 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. – Meet the author reception
Registration: Register here. Registration is required for this event (no walk-ins) and capacity is limited, so make sure to register early. Refreshments will be provided and a cash bar will be available.
*Please note the first 100 registered guests to arrive at the event will receive a complimentary copy of Jack Austin’s memoir Unlikely Insider.*
Inquiries: beedie-events@sfu.ca
Join us on April 13th for a conversation with former federal cabinet minister and senator Jack Austin as he discusses his political memoir, Unlikely Insider: A West Advocate in Ottawa, a forward-looking reflection on challenges facing Canada and its citizens. The event will also feature a panel of distinguished co-hosts: Sarah Kutulakos (Executive Director, Canada China Business Council), Jeff Nankivell (President and CEO, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada), Paul Evans (Professor of Asian and trans-Pacific international relations, UBC), and Jing Li (Co-Director of the Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies). This session will be moderated by Evaleen Jaager Roy (Chair, SFU Beedie School of Business Advisory Board).
About the Book
At a time when too many of the world’s political leaders are consolidating power by playing on divisions and stoking fear, Unlikely Insider comes as a welcome reminder of the value of public service as a force for economic progress, social justice, and nation-building.
With both historical perspective and an eye to the future, Jack Austin reflects on events and people whose impacts are still felt, and on the enduring challenges of Canadian life. Moving away from colonial domination of Indigenous Peoples, navigating our pivotal relationship with the United States and engagement with China, the nature and purpose of the Senate: these remain timely concerns, to which Austin has made significant contributions. Sharing insights into policy as well as into the personalities of colleagues and friends, Unlikely Insider paints vignettes of figures from Premier Zhou Enlai to Queen Elizabeth and recounts the author’s travels with Pierre Trudeau after the prime minister’s retirement.
As a British Columbian, Austin worked to ensure that his province’s perspectives and interests mattered in Ottawa; as someone who came from a disadvantaged background, he is sensitive to the need to make the country a place of fairness and opportunity for all. Unlikely Insider reminds Canadians that inclusion – regional, social, and demographic – makes our nation both stronger and more just.
About the Author, Jack Austin
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