Keith Spicer
Keith Spicer is former chairman (1989-96) of Canada 's broadcasting and telecommunications regulatory body (the CRTC, informally known as the "Canadian FCC"). Before occupying that post, Mr. Spicer was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper The Ottawa Citizen, a television public affairs host, syndicated columnist, editorial-writer at the Toronto Globe and Mail, and professor of political and international relations at several Canadian and U.S. universities (University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire), York University, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA, 1997, teaching Internet issues in an international context and the role of media in ethno-cultural wars). In 1990-91, on leave of absence from the CRTC, he was chairman of a government-appointed constitutional enquiry commission called the Citizens' Forum on Canada 's Future. Between 1970 and 1977 he was Canada 's first Commissioner of Official Languages, a national ombudsman post for English and French language rights. In the 1980s he ran a communications seminar company called the Spicer Communications Group Inc. He has written five books – one on international development aid, one on Canadian politics, two on communications theory, and Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian. After moving to Paris in September 1996, he was an Associate of Ernst & Young Canada (1996-2000), specializing in telecommunications and Internet issues. From 1996 to 2004, he led a seminar on national Internet strategies at the Sorbonne (Paris III).
Current activities: Director, Institute for Media, Peace and Security, University for Peace ( Geneva , and San José , Costa Rica ); Member of the editorial board of Ilissos: Lettre de la liberté en action . Member of the Haut Conseil de la Francophonie.
Degrees: Honours B.A. in modern languages and literatures (French and Spanish, University of Toronto ); the Diplôme de l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris; and a Ph.D. in political science ( University of Toronto ; thesis on Canada 's development aid program overseas).
