Mr. Colin Robertson - Distinguished Senior Fellow, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University

Colin Robertson is Senior Strategic Advisor for the US-based law firm of McKenna, Long and Aldridge. He is also Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute http://www.cdfai.org/ He is the current president of the Canadian International Council (Winnipeg Branch)'s National Capital Branch. http://www.canadianinternationalcouncil.org/ottawa He sits on the board of Canada World Youth. He is honorary chair of the Canada Arizona Business Council. Robertson writes on international affairs and he is a frequent contributor and commentator on CTV, CBC and CPAC.

A career foreign service officer from 1977-2010, he served as first Head of the Advocacy Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in Washington and Consul General in Los Angeles, with previous assignments in Hong Kong and in New York at the UN and Consulate General. In his final assignment he directed a project at Carleton University's Centre for Trade Policy and Law with the support of the Federal and Provincial Governments and the private sector on Canada-US Engagement. http://www.carleton.ca/ctpl/conferences/Canada-US-Project-2008.htm A member of the team that negotiated the Canada-US FTA and NAFTA he is co-author of Decision at Midnight: The Inside Story of the Canada-US FTA.