Kim Fontaine-Skronski is a graduate from McGill University (M.A in Political Science) and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Laval University in Québec city. Her research focuses mainly on international trade and the multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Cumulating more than 20 years of experience in the political and academic fields, Kim served as Political Adviser to the Minister of Culture and Communications of Quebec (2003-2007) after working in the Political and Cultural Affairs Section at the Canadian Embassy in Austria (1999-2001). Since 2019, she is the Executive Director of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) based at Concordia University, where she also teaches a graduate seminar on International Trade.Elizabeth Bloodgood is an associate professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Montreal (Canada). Her research focuses on the emergence, operations and demise of NGOs in response to national regulatory and economic conditions. Current projects include the theoretical development of new transnational advocacy, the global roles of interest groups, agent-based modeling of NGOs, and building a global NGO database. Her work, supported by the Social Science Research Council of Canada, ISA and the FRQSC, has been published in the Review of International Studies, European Political Science Review, Interest Groups & Advocacy, NVSQ and Voluntas.Marcello Scarone is a multilingual expert in social inclusion, human rights, political science, international relations, media and development, as well as freedom of expression and communication, with nearly 30 years of international experience in intergovernmental and civil society organizations, and several years of academic experience as a university and college professor. He spent almost twenty years as a senior official at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, Paris, France), where he successively held the positions in the Programme for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace, Acting Chief of Section and Senior Programme Specialist in the Division of Human Rights, Social Inclusion and Struggle against Discrimination and, finally, Chief of Section, Latin America and the Caribbean, External Relations and Public Information Sector.

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