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THE PEOPLE MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCES

Lisa Anketell, M.Ed.

Manager, International Development Institute

Lisa’s Masters in Adult Education and Community Development from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto includes a collaborative program in Comparative, International and Development Education. Along with her undergraduate degree from Queen’s University in Sociology, Lisa holds a commitment to sustainable global development.

Lisa has experience working with various NGOs managing and developing programs and projects focused on education, awareness, and income-generation, including a three-month project in Tanzania, Africa educating youth about HIV/AIDS. Coupled with her previous role as a Program Development Consultant with Humber College - working closely with the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Lisa offers a unique background to her role. Lisa is accountable for project management and partnership development, and supports a number of events that complement our programs. 

James Cullin

Associate Dean, The Business School

As Associate Dean in the Business School, James is passionate about working in an international context. He has over 15 years of experience working in regions such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, Guyana, and Zimbabwe, in addition to experience teaching in Humber’s International Development graduate certificate program. Prior to joining the Business School, James was a faculty member in Humber’s School of Media Studies & Information Technology where he received Humber's Distinguished Faculty Award in 2010.

James holds a Master’s degree from Central Michigan University where his research examined web interface design standards. He also holds an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Management-Economics from the University of Guelph. Outside of the classroom, James works as a consultant in the area of social media strategy.

Pierre-Pascal Gendron, BSc, MA, PhD

Professor of Economics and Program Coordinator, B.Comm. International Business, The Business School

Prior to joining Humber College, Professor Gendron served as economist in the federal government of Canada, as consultant in progressive positions with international tax practices of professional services firms in Canada and The Netherlands, and as consultant on fiscal matters for the IMF, USAID, World Bank, Forum of Federations, and C.D. Howe Institute.

Professor Gendron sits on the Expert Roster of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF and has participated in a significant number of tax policy technical assistance missions throughout the world. He also teaches value-added tax courses yearly as a visiting instructor at the African Tax Institute, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

He has written extensively on public economics, especially in the area of taxation and tax policy. His influential book, co-written with Professor Richard M. Bird (University of Toronto), The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries received its paperback release by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Professor Gendron is a member of the Advisory Board of the World Journal of VAT/GST Law. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Toronto.

Ted Glenn, BA, MA, PhD

Program Coordinator of the Public Administration Postgraduate Program at Humber

Ted’s areas of expertise in public sector governance include legislative capacity-building, elections, executive decision-making, communications, leadership development, and competency-based education and training. Over the past decade, Ted has worked in Bangladesh, Bermuda, Bhutan, Mexico and Tanzania on a variety of projects dealing with needs assessment and curriculum development/delivery, technical/vocational education and training policy and capacity-building, program monitoring and evaluation, and organizational change.

John Lewis, PhD

Professor, International Development

John Lewis holds a PhD in Political Theory from the University of Toronto. He has spent 20 years studying and working in the fields of international human rights and development. His first overseas post was as a young volunteer coordinating infrastructure projects in post-war Central America. His most recent experience has been working with refugee and human rights organizations in the Middle East and Central Africa.

John's areas of interest are primarily the promotion of democracy, good governance, and human rights. Over the years, he has worked with international organizations including the Carter Center and the UN as well as grassroots, local agencies. He has served as an elections expert on more than 10 election observation missions around the world including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Palestinian Territories, and Bangladesh.

John is married with two young children.

Susan MacGregor, BTM, MBA, MADEM

Program Coordinator, International Development Postgraduate Certificate Program

Susan is a disaster management specialist with over 15 years experience in the International Relief and Development Industry. She spent 12 years based overseas providing direct services to victims of natural disasters and conflict. She started teaching at Humber part time in 2006 and became the Program Coordinator of the Postgraduate International Development program in 2009.

Susan has worked with a number of agencies including; Air Serv International, the Red Cross, World Vision and UNHCR focusing on the management and logistics of operating in difficult locations. She has worked in the following countries on a variety of development and relief situations: Indonesia, Chad, Sudan, DR Congo, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Angola, Mozambique and Liberia. She continues to remain involved in the field through consultancies with the Red Cross, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, World Vision, and Air Serv International.  She also serves as a regular guest lecturer at the US Air Force Special Operations University. Susan holds a Bachelor of Tourism Management, an MBA and a Masters of Disaster and Emergency Management.

Kent Schroeder, PhD

Director, International Development Projects and Coordinator, Bachelor of International Development Degree Program

Kent has 15 years experience working on a variety of international development initiatives in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. He has worked as a project manager, trainer, researcher and evaluation consultant for projects focused on governance, microfinance, HIV/AIDS, entrepreneurship development and community health.

Kent also managed a governance and capacity building initiative with indigenous peoples in the Canadian arctic. He has written and published on a range of development issues including North/South partnership building, participation and development, the role of values in development, higher education and development and the application of complexity theory to development practice.

Diane Simpson

Dean, International Centre 

Diane has a MSc in International Planning and Development from the University of Guelph, a postgraduate certificate in International Development from Humber and an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario. Diane spent the early part of her career working in Africa, Central America and Asia focused on entrepreneurship and small business development. She has been at Humber for over 12 years beginning her time in the Business School managing several projects including the Ningbo and Jimei University linkages, funded partnership projects in Africa and Asia and more broadly providing support to International Students within the school. Since 2004, Diane has been managing the International Centre at the college and is currently responsible for the development and implementation of partnership projects, institutional linkages, study abroad, international exchanges and the recruitment, admissions and services for Humber’s 3,000 International Students. Diane’s research has largely focused on effective international partnerships.

Mary Heather White, M.A.

Field Manager, Sulawesi Economic Development Strategy Project 

Mary Heather has 20 years of experience in the area of international development and training for poverty reduction. More than 10 years of her career have been spent in the South Asian region, working on CIDA and other donor-funded projects with leading international and Canadian organizations. Her expertise in disaster-affected environments and gender mainstreaming includes post-tsunami and post-conflict livelihoods recovery and development, vocational training for employment and self-employment, social and economic re-integration of ex-combatants and the promotion of women’s economic empowerment.

Mary Heather’s in-Canada experience includes managing university and college programming to promote international partnership and volunteerism. She also has significant experience providing capacity building to local development partners and integrating gender equality at the organizational level. Mary Heather has worked with the Canadian Hunger Foundation, WUSC, the Canadian Red Cross and Oxfam GB.

Jennifer Wilson

Manager, International Initiatives 

During the past eight years, Jennifer has managed Humber’s capacity-building projects in Tanzania and Bangladesh as part of the DFATD-funded Canadian College Partnership Program through ACCC as well as Humber’s International Youth Internship Program. A graduate from OISE/UT’s Initial Teacher Education program in Business Studies, Jennifer managed Humber’s international partnership diploma programs in Business Management and Business Administration with two Chinese universities for seven years. Before coming to Humber, Jennifer has experience in fundraising, advocacy for human rights, international trade, curriculum development and teaching both overseas and at the post-secondary level.