Balsillie Papers

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

Ryan Katz-Rosene and Andrew Heffernan
While debates about the true impact of globalization on the global environment continue, some scholars have come to ask about the inverse relationship: How might ecological breakdown influence globalization?

Stephanie DeWitte-Orr & Alan Whiteside This paper offers a brief history of viral pandemics and the science of the COVID-19 virus. After reviewing COVID-19’s economic, social, psychological and political impacts, we touch on the implications for health care. Finally, we look at the need for a global, integrated approach that requires new multi-disciplinary thinking, and what this means for policy makers.