{"id":177,"date":"2024-11-13T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=177"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:49:30","slug":"colin-robertson","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/people\/colin-robertson\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>A former Canadian diplomat, Colin Robertson is Vice President and Fellow at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgai.ca\">Canadian Global Affairs Institute <\/a>and hosts its regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgai.ca\/podcasts\">Global Exchange podcast<\/a>. He is an Executive Fellow at the University of Calgary\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/policyschool.ucalgary.ca\/\"> School of Public Policy <\/a>and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.carleton.ca\/npsia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norman Paterson School of International Affairs<\/a> at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A member of the Department of National Defence\u2019s Defence Advisory Board, Robertson is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forces.gc.ca\/site\/news-nouvelles\/news-nouvelles-eng.asp?cat=00&amp;id=3624\">Honorary Captain (Royal Canadian Navy)<\/a> assigned to the Strategic Communications Directorate.&nbsp; Robertson sits on the advisory councils of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thealphengroup.home.blog\/\">Alphen Group<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca\/\">Johnson-Shoyama School of Public Policy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/naresearchpartnership.org\/\">North American Research Partnership<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ottawachurchillsociety.com\/\">Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa&nbsp;<\/a>and<a href=\"https:\/\/cdainstitute.ca\/about-us\/board-of-directors\/\"> the Conference of Defence Associations Institute.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his foreign service career, he served as first Head of the Advocacy Secretariat and Minister at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Consul General in Los Angeles, as Consul in Hong Kong, and in New York at the UN and Consulate General. A member of the teams that negotiated the Canada-US FTA and then the NAFTA, he is a member of the Deputy Minister of International Trade\u2019s Trade Advisory Council and the North American Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He writes on foreign affairs for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/authors\/colin-robertson#dashboard\/follows\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a> and he is a frequent contributor to other media. 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