Carnegie Council

Michael Ignatieff, prominent Canadian author and academic, was first elected in 2006 as the Member of Parliament for Etobicoke Lakeshore. He currently serves as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Opposition.

Prior to entering politics, Ignatieff worked as a journalist, author and academic in the field of human rights and international affairs. He is the former director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights and Policy at Harvard University and has served as the Chancellor Jackman Visiting Professor in Human rights Policy at the University of Toronto and Senior Fellow of the Munk Centre for International Studies.

Ignatieff is one of the most influential voices in the global debate on human rights, as well as the distinguished author of an acclaimed biography of British academic Sir Isaiah Berlin and such award-winning works as Blood and Belonging and The Rights Revolution.

Resources by this Author:

• The Lesser Evil: Hard Choices in a War on Terror
• Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry