BCCIE 2019

Senior-level International Education representatives from the provincial government will provide updates on strategy and activities in support of International Education. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion.

Roberta Jamieson is a Mohawk woman who has enjoyed a distinguished career of firsts. She was the first First Nation woman in Canada to earn a law degree; the first non-parliamentarian appointed an ex-officio member of a House of Commons Committee; the first woman Ombudsman of Ontario; and the first woman elected Chief of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. An accomplished expert in alternative dispute resolution, Roberta also served as Commissioner of the Indian Commission of Ontario.

Under Roberta’s leadership, Indspire has flourished. Raising funds from government, corporate and private sectors, Indspire’s annual disbursements of bursaries and scholarships support Indigenous students in post-secondary education and training. She has earned numerous awards, including, YWCA’s President’s Award and Women’s Executive Network’s “Canada’s Most Powerful Women” Hall of Fame, as well as 25 honorary degrees.

1. Federal Update:  Jennifer Daubeny, Executive Director, International Education Division, Global Affairs Canada
2. Role of the Trade Commissioner Service:  Mandeep Gill, Trade Commissioner, Regional Office Vancouver
3. Brief introduction to the Trade Commissioners from China, India, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam and Mexico:  Tim Hopkins, Trade Commissioner, Global Affairs Canada
 
The key speakers will be joined by Trade Commissioners (Kim Ursu – China; Tam Anh Nguyen – Vietnam; Veronica Soto – Mexico, Anuj Bhasin – India; Eva Chin – Brunei Darussalam)

Chief Robert Joseph is currently the Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada and a member of the National Assembly of First Nations Elders Council. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and is an honourary witness to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). As Chairman of the Native American Leadership Alliance for Peace and Reconciliation and Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation with the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IFWP), Chief Joseph has sat with the leaders of South Africa, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia and Washington, DC to learn from and share his understanding of faith, hope, healing and reconciliation.

Join our panel of global leaders – from America and from the Americas, from the Asia Pacific and Australasia – to discuss, present, and debate our differing global experiences and practices on the key themes of internationalization, interculturalization, and indigenization. Each region comes with its own histories, issues, diversities, dynamics, complexities, and policy responses. The conference itself, the keynote address, and the audience will raise issues that exist for us in K-12 and post-secondary, in public and private, in urban and rural settings.

This lunch session is a Mexico round table to present the Jalisco Consortium for the Internationalization of Higher Education, partner of BCCIE since 2017.

As a partner of BCCIE since 2017, the Jalisco top universities, members of the Consortium, are interested in identifying areas of collaboration for Jalisco and BCCIE members, such as research collaboration including mobility from researchers and visits to Jalisco and to BC; faculty members and student mobility and in house internationalization.

The Jalisco Consortium members are: Tec de Monterrey, UNIVA; Universidad de Guadalajara, Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara and ITESO.

Canadian Consulate in Guadalajara
Veronica Soto, Education Trade Commissioner
veronica.soto@international.gc.ca

Jalisco Ministry for Innovation Science and Technology 
Maria Jose Castelazo, General Coordinator for International Affairs
maria.castelazo@jalisco.gob.mx

Jalisco Consortium for the Internationalization of higher education 
Sandra Hernandez Salazar, Chief for Internationalization (UNIVA)
sandra.hernandez@univa.mx

Celebrate some of the outstanding achievements in International Education in BC, as we announce the winners of the annual BCCIE International Education Awards.