Rudyard Griffiths never shies away from discussing the big issue of the day. He is a senior fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs; the co-founder, chair, and moderator of the Munk Debates, Canada’s premier international debate series; and the publisher of The Hub, Canada’s fast growing independent digital news outlet. He is a highly sought-after commentator on global economics and geopolitics, along with Canadian politics, history, and economics. Griffiths is also an expert at moderating Q&As, one-on-one interviews, and panels with business leaders and executives.
Griffiths has been a columnist with the Toronto Star and the National Post as well as a television anchor on BNN, CTV News Channel and Bloomberg TV Canada. In 2015, he moderated the first ever Canadian federal election debate dedicated to foreign policy issues, and he is the author of the 2009 Globe and Mail Book of the Year, Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto. Griffiths has also edited over 20 books on international affairs, politics, and history.
Prior to joining the Munk School, Griffiths led, for over a decade, his own public policy think tank, The Dominion Institute, and worked in the Security and Policy Planning secretariat of the Department of Foreign Affairs. He currently advises some of Canada’s leading private foundations.
Griffiths studied history and political science at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and completed a master’s degree in political theory at Cambridge University.