Balsillie Papers

Abdul Malek Al Jaber and Jatin Nathwani
An economic corridor through Gaza — the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) — could become a gradual pathway for peace, productivity and stability in the region.

Münür Sacit Herdem and Jatin Nathwani
Green hydrogen has enormous potential for advancing a low-carbon future within the hard-to-abate sectors and also for shaping the issue of energy security. In this paper, we present a beginner’s guide for policymakers and readers interested in green hydrogen.

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart and Ashley M. W. Mungai While mass prisoner releases are not a new phenomenon — throughout history, governments have freed people in response to health crises, during holidays, or to mark political transitions — the scale, scope and speed of releases during the pandemic were unprecedented.

Münür Sacit Herdem and Jatin Nathwani
This paper presents innovative approaches to rethinking education and peer review in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

Jatin Nathwani and Ann Fitz-Gerald
Whereas critical challenges to humanity have been tasking international experts for millennia, rapid advancements in emerging transformative technologies (ETT) give rise to a fundamental problem that requires strategies for risk management and governance.

Ann Fitz-Gerald, Dmytro Chumachenko, Halyna Padalko and Vijay Ganesh
As AI technology evolves rapidly, concerns over its potential threats and the necessity for regulatory mechanisms have become central to the global conversation.

Brandon Dickson
This paper will evaluate a number of public service pension plans from across Canada to understand how RI is incorporated into their investment policies. 

M. Tamer Özsu
Data science has emerged as a promising field to leverage the large volumes of data collected from multiple sources. This paper provides a systematic framing of the field to assist policy makers in developing proper initiatives.

Randolph Mank
What is written on paper is of far less value than our actions and the tangible assets we bring to the global table. It often takes a crisis to generate real action.

Jatin Nathwani and Burak Guler
The Russia-Ukraine war raises the question: what should the EU do with its energy infrastructure and fossil-fuels? We argue against massive investments in additional natural gas infrastructure for increasing supply