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WelcomeAs Canada's first and only female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell's life has been a life of firsts. From the age of 16, when she became the first female student body president of her high school, until 30 years later, as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada at the age of 46, Ms. Campbell has spent much of her life breaking barriers for women. Holding audiences since the age of ten, Ms. Campbell speaks widely on issues related to leadership, international politics, democratization, climate change, gender, and Canadian/American relations all over the world. In recent years, she has addressed audiences in Kiev, Cordoba, Toronto, Prague, Brussels, Vancouver, London, Beijing, and Washington, DC among others. more GREENBUILD NEXT 2011 On Wednesday, October 5th, Former Prime Minister Campbell joined Thomas Friedman, Cokie Roberts, and Dr. Paul Farmer for a discussion of "Resilience" during the Opening Celebration of Greenbuild NEXT 2011 in Toronto, ON. It is the world's largest green building conference and celebrates what is NEXT in green building. It is convened each year by the US Green Build Council (USGBC), a non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation.
 This year marks the first time it is being held outside of the United States and so Ms. Campbell was proud to welcome them to Canada. Ms. Campbell drew inspiration for resilience by the boat lift that took place on 9/11. It serves as an example of government [US Coast Guard] recognizing a need, putting out a call, and that call being answered by citizens who not only had the resources, but also the will to help meet the need to evacuate half a million people from the piers of lower Manhattan on 9/11.
Watch the Greenbuild Opening Plenary HERE. (Ms. Campbell's panel begins about 1hr15m into the video.)
CIGI CELEBRATESIn September of 2011, experts in governance as well as hip hop star K’Naan came together to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI). To mark the occasion CIGI also convened a conference titled, “Can Think Tanks Make a Difference?” Former Prime Minister Campbell was the lead speaker of the session, “Do Governments Care More About Politics than Policy?” While she was at CIGI for the events, Ms. Campbell took a moment to discuss the differences between the politics and policy development, and the value of think tanks in engaging the public in each sphere in the video below. EQUAL VOICEOn June 2nd, Former [Conservative] Prime Minister Campbell, along with Former [Liberal] Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, and Former Ontario [NDP] Cabinet Minister Frances Lankin were featured in a panel discussion about the slow progress in electing more women to the Canadian House of Commons. The discussion was organized by Equal Voice and the Women's Legal Action and Education Fund (LEAF) and was held at Massey College. Equal Voice, a national volunteer group dedicated to the election of more women, was created 10 years ago, and has spent the last decade pressuring political leaders to nominate and elect more women. Now Equal Voice’s volunteers, having tried every nice way, want to mark their 10th anniversary by upping the ante. LEAF, long the champion of women’s rights, shares the frustration that discriminatory barriers are preventing Canadian women from being equal partners with men in making the laws and running the country. As Equal Voice advisory board member, Kim Campbell, says, “It is time to stop asking, and start demanding our rights.”
Despite some gains in the last federal election, Canada is falling behind other modern democracies in terms of female representation where it really counts—in the corridors of power. Over the past decade, women’s 52 percent of the population has held only about a fifth of the seats in the House. All
 Canadians would benefit if the doors were opened to more talented women, making sure female perspectives inform foreign policy, social programs, economic and environmental tradeoffs.Equal Voice and LEAF recognized that this event was a chance to hear from three women, who broke into the male club of politics, explain why asking politely for parity for women in politics just isn’t working. It was a chance to cross the usual partisan lines, as these three former politicians have done--to explore common bonds, and hopefully create a community of support for changing the face of politics in Canada.
Watch a video of the panel discussion on CPAC’s Video on Demand.
TO THE CONTRARYRecently Former Prime Minister Campbell was in Washington, DC for meetings and events. She was happy to also make a return appearance on PBS's To the Contrary while she was there. Featured topics of the episode were:
NEXT BEST THINGWhile she was unable to personally attend, Former Prime Minister Campbell addressed, by video, the Opening of the third Oxford Model Ukraine Conference at St. Antony’s College and New College at the University of Oxford. The conference was held April 6-8, and was sponsored and organized by the alumni of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP), and the Oxford University Ukrainian Society, in cooperation with the Russian and Eurasian Studies Center. Ms. Campbell encountered the work of CUPP through her role as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Foundation for Effective Governance in Kyiv. Watch the video below.
AS SEEN ON TVRecently, Kim Campbell returned to HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.
Her fellow guests were Will Cain, Rep Jack Kingston (R-GA), DL Hughley, and Frmr RNC Chair, Michael Steele. The lively discussion included subjects like Climate Change and Evolution. Happy 200th Episode Real Time! Check out the web-exclusive OVERTIME SEGEMENT. CANDID CAMPBELL
Check out the video below, or listen to the podcast on UBC Alumni Affairs site.
STUDYING RADICALISATIONFormer Prime Minister Campbell is proud to be one of the founding Trustees of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, which recently held the ICSR Peace and Security Summit at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City June 30th and July 1st. The most important event of its kind in 2010, the Summit brought together 400 leading policymakers, diplomats, senior officials and experts from across the globe, encouraging them to share their experiences and approaches in a number of working groups and high-level panels such as Nine Years After 9/11: Are We Safer?. The Summit explored the greatest security challenges of our time, ranging from domestic radicalization and violent extremism to ongoing conflicts and the struggle for peace in places such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, and the Middle East. Learn more about ICSR from their new video: CAMPBELL LAUNCHES BLOG: BiteSizeChunksAnd old African proverb says: “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” Many of today’s challenges – Climate Change, Poverty, Hunger, Illiteracy, Oppression of Women – seem beyond the ability of any single person to influence. I’ve created a new blog to provide food for thought on the day’s most important issues, and to invite you to share suggestions of concrete things that we as individuals can do to make a difference in some of the big issues of our time.
Sharing stories and ideas is the way that ordinary people can have an impact on the big issues. The goal of exchanging these ideas is to foster a feeling of empowerment that will encourage us to act. When I helped to create the Club of Madrid – made up of 72 members who have been either President or Prime Minister of their countries, I explained that this group did not assume that we alone could change the world. We know better than anyone what it means to be “former” leaders. But we also know that we can leverage our experience and access to promote democratic values. To explain the role we play, I coined the term, “a tile in the mosaic of progress,” which is what the ideas of this blog shall be as well. Please join me in building a new mosaic of positive change, one bite size chunk at a time. Sincerely,
Kim Campbell
POST-COPENHAGEN: MORE WORK AHEADClimate change has come to be recognized globally as one of the most serious challenges facing our planet. 2009 was a crucial year in the international effort to address climate change and culminated in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, December 7-19. Now that the negotiations have concluded with what might be the first steps to a multilateral agreement, there is more work ahead. Read Kim Campbell's Op-Ed at the Climate Change Leadership Forum to learn more.
As a member of the Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA), a task force of world leaders committed to addressing climate change through international negotiations, Former Prime Minister Campbell is engaged in this issue and offers insight into the actions that will be necessary in order to save cultures, lifestyles and lives.
As a Former Minister of Defence, Ms. Campbell is a voice of authority on security risks posed by the effects of climate change as well as the implications of what she calls "the trifecta of disadvantage" where countries most at risk from global warming are also among the world's poorest economies and weakest states. more
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Kim Campbell’s quick wit and candor have delighted audiences all over the world, and if her recent appearance at her alma mater, 
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