Sunday, March 30, 2014

CUSLI ExCo Apoints Diane Francis and Ross Hornby

The Canada-US Law Institute has appointed two new members to its Executive Committee: Ms. Diane Francis, award-winning columnist, bestselling author, journalist, broadcaster, and entrepreneur and Mr. Ross Hornby, Vice-President, Government Affairs and Policy at General Electric Canada.

Ms. Diane Francis is the Editor-at-Large at the National Post, a blogger with Huffington Post and a Distinguished Professor at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management. She has written ten books on white collar crime, politics, immigration, economics and finance, including Who Owns Canada Now: Old Money, New Money and the Future of Canadian Business and Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country. (source: www.dianefrancis.com)

Mr. Ross Hornby is responsible for GE Canada's engagement on public policy issues with governments and seeks to promote growth of the company's business in Canada and around the world. He joined GE in mid-2011 after a distinguished career in the Public Service of Canada. From 2006-2011 he served as Canada's Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels where he launched free trade negotiations with the European Union. Prior to that, he was Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy, at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, where played the leading role in the International Policy Review. Previously, he was Assistant Secretary, Treasury Board Secretariat, and Senior General Counsel with the Department of Justice. 

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