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John Foster

• Read John Foster's speaking text from Panel 1: The Big Business of Insecurity (PDF)

Principal Researcher (Civil Society and Governance) at the North-South Institute in Ottawa. He was previously Ariel F. Sallows Professor of International Human Rights at the Law College of the University of Saskatchewan.  He has participated and led organizations in civil society in Canada for 45 years, including head of OXFAM-Canada (1989-1997) and almost two decades in social justice with the United Church of Canada and the ecumenical justice coalitions.

He was a co-founder of Common Frontiers, the Latin American Working Group, the Inter-Agency Coalition on HIV/AIDS. He is active in Global Treatment Action Group (GTAG), as well as a former member of the board of directors of Greenpeace Canada and the Canadian Council for International Cooperation.

John Foster is former chair of the International Coordinating Committee of the Social Watch an international network with platforms in sixty countries and alternate chair of the Commonwealth Civil Society Advisory Committee. He has extensive experience representing civil society at the United Nations in social development, financing for development, HIV/AIDS and human rights.

Dr. Foster is well known as a speaker and writer, with an extensive bibliography of publications in such areas as human rights, globalization and health, AIDS and development, reform of international institutions, hemispheric affairs, foreign policy and social justice, including:

“NAFTA ‘Plus’ or ‘Minus’: The Future of the North American Free Trade Agreement, with Kristof Grudneiwicz, in The USA and Canada 2007, 9th Edition, London and New York, Taylor and Francis Group. 2006

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