Today our guest is Bernard Wood from Ottawa, Canada. Educated in history, Bernard received his army commission while at university. After an MA in International Affairs, he went on to a wide-ranging career in the field. He served as a non-partisan advisor to Canada’s parliament, a prime minister and a minister of different parties. As the founder of the North-South Institute and director of the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security he was a leading researcher and commentator on issues of international affairs and defence for 15 years. He later became a senior officer in a multilateral organization in Europe and an award-winning evaluator. In the mid-1980s he was Personal Representative of the Prime Minister of Canada in the fight against Apartheid.
In his current project – as a candidate for the Master of Fine Arts at the University of King’s College, Halifax – Bernard is harnessing and adapting his research, writing and communication skills to the discipline of “telling true stories well.”