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Tracy Beck Fenwick is the Director, of the Australian Centre for Federalism and an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and I.R. at the Australian National University. Tracy is an expert in comparative federalism and social policy implementation. She has previously held visiting appointments at the University of British Columbia, McGill University, Universidad de San Martin (Argentina), Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), and at the Fundacão Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP). Tracy was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. She has worked recently as a consultant and advisor on federalism and social protection policy to the World Bank, UNICEF, national governments and NGOs. She completed her doctorate specializing in Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford, U.K. in 2009 (St. Anthony's College). She holds a M.A. in Comparative Politics and a B.A. in Latin American Studies and Economics from McGill University, Canada. She edited "Beyond Autonomy: Practical and Theoretical Challenges to 21st Century Federalism" with Andrew Banfield (2021) and published a single-authored book: (2016) "Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina." Notre Dame Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.  She also recently published in Publius (2021); Policy and Society (2018); Policy Studies (2017); Global Social Policy (2022; 2013), the Journal of Politics in Latin America (2010), and in the Latin American Research Review (2009). Tracy is currently working on a collaborative international project about why constituent units both abdicate and delegate their authority to the federal centre.

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Originally from Toronto, ON, Cayleigh recently graduated from Queen’s University, having studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (Politics specialization). Her interest in interdisciplinary studies is apparent in her work at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, where she is assisting on a comparative project on money laundering, terrorist financing, and illicit uses of cryptocurrency. Her other research interests include environmental policy, international peace and security, and healthcare and the law.  

In addition to her studies and work, Cayleigh is an avid reader, yoga instructor, mental health advocate, nature lover, and baker.

Leonie was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec but decided to pursue her BAH at ³ÉÈË´óƬ. She is currently a fourth-year political studies major and global development minor. During her third year, she studied abroad at the University of St. Andrews and the National University of Singapore. It was during these studies, that she developed a keen interest in security studies, more specifically, a focus on studying terrorism and counterterrorism within the regions of Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific. During her spare time, Leonie enjoys reading, biking, and traveling. 

Julian is a fourth-year Political Studies major with a minor in Philosophy, and aspires to attend law school post-graduation. He has a strong interest in international politics, foreign policy and affairs, global conflict and supranational institutions. Julian’s work discussing United States foreign policy in the Iraq War has been published in  an academic political journal. This is Julian’s second year working for IIGR, where he acts as a student research assistant for a comparative project on Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and illicit uses of Cryptocurrency, and is in the midst of a funded research fellowship project on cyber security and strategic doctrine for middle powers alongside Professor Christian Leuprecht. Julian also acts as a member of the editorial board for Queen’s Political Digest undergraduate journal, an Academic Coordinator on the Political Studies Department Student Council, and is an active contributor to the Queen’s Journal.

Ariel graduated from ³ÉÈË´óƬ in 2021 with a BAH in Political Studies, minoring in Philosophy.  She is now a graduate student in the War Studies program at the Royal Military College of Canada, where she holds an SSHRC CGS-M grant with a MINDS supplementary grant. She is currently writing her MA thesis, which investigates the role of cryptocurrencies in North Korean proliferation financing schemes. 

Ariel has been working for the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations since October of 2022 on projects related to terrorist financing and cryptocurrency. Her research interests include proliferation financing, WMD/CBRN proliferation and policy, military privatization and ethics, and the intersection of cyberspace, crime, and warfare. 

In her free time, Ariel can be found volunteering at her local stable or playing with her two dogs. She enjoys horseback riding, reading, and oil painting, and is learning to play the violin. 

Amitava Chowdhury is the Chair of the Department of History and Director of the . He is a historian and historical archaeologist of agrarian labour regimes and colonial plantations in the British Empire, and methodologically, he is interested in global history and diaspora theory. In the department, he is also the co-director of the Global History Initiative, a faculty and graduate research forum in global history. Dr. Chowdhury is a former fellow of Harvard University’s Weatherhead Initiative in Global History and a former Managing Editor of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Since arriving at Queen’s in 2008, he has taught at every level, from first-year lectures to graduate seminars, and pedagogically, he is invested in globalizing and decolonizing the curriculum. He is the past winner of the Department of History’s Teaching Excellence Award and has been nominated for several other teaching awards, including the Frank Knox Teaching Excellence Prize. His co-edited book Between Dispersion and Belonging won the 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award