John Kirton is director and founder of the Global Governance Program, which includes the G7 Research Group, the G20 Research Group, the BRICS Research Group and the Global Health Diplomacy Program, based at the University of Toronto, where he is a professor emeritus of political science, having taught global summit governance and Canadian foreign policy. He is a fellow of Trinity College and a senior fellow of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto. He has led a team of analysts at every G7 summit since 1988 and every G20 summit since the first at Washington in 2008. He is author of G20 Governance for a Globalized World and China’s G20 Governance,and co-author of Reconfiguring the Global Governance of Climate Change (with Ella Kokotsis and Brittaney Warren) and Global Governance of Climate Change: G7, G20 and UN Leadership(with Ella Kokotsis). He co-edits a series of annual publications on the G7 and G20, including most recently G7 Canada: The 2025 Kananaskis Summit and G20 South Africa: The 2025 Johannesburg Summit. Follow him on X/Twitter at @jjkirton.
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The mission of NATO Association of Canada is to promote peace, prosperity, and security through knowledge and understanding of the importance of NATO.
We strive to educate and engage Canadians about NATO and NATO’s goal of peace, prosperity and security. NATO Association of Canada ensures that we have an informed citizenry able to contribute to discussions about Canada’s role on the world stage.
As a leading member of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), NATO Association of Canada has strong and enduring ties with sister organizations in many of the alliance countries, as well as members of NATO’s “Partnership for Peace” and “Mediterranean Dialogue” programmes. The NAOC has had a leading role in the recent transformation and modernization of the ATA, and helped to create and develop the Youth Atlantic Treaty Association (YATA).
The NAOC has strong ties with the Government of Canada including Global Affairs Canada and the Department of National Defence. We are constantly working to create and maintain relationships with international organizations such as the World Bank Group, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, NATO Headquarters, the International Criminal Court, and other prominent international NGOs and think tanks.
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