Lloyd Axworthy

Lloyd Axworthy is the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He served as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996-2000. In 2004, he was appointed as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace deal between the East African countries. Dr. Axworthy is a member of the board of Human Rights Watch, University of Winnipeg Foundation, Lester B. Pearson College, University of the Arctic, Pacific Counsel on International Policy, the Churchill Gateway Development Corporation and HudBay Minerals, Inc. He also serves as a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor. Dr. Axworthy is the chair of the Committee on Human and Community Development of the Foundation and a member of the Audit Committee and the Institutional Policy Committee of the Foundation.