Québec Day at Princeton: Bridging Borders, Talking Trade
Thu, 2/6 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne
Fund for Canadian Studies: Humanities Council
Québec Day at Princeton: Bridging Borders, Talking Trade
RSVP Here. Reception to follow lecture.
Join Canadian Studies for a pertinent discussion on US-Québec trade diplomacy, featuring:
John Parisella, Special Advisor, Strategy and Outreach, NATIONAL Public Relations
Richard Ouellet, Full Professor of International Economic Law, Graduate School of International Studies, Laval University
in conversation with May Jeong, Fall 2024 Visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism; Staff Writer, Vanity Fair
Opening Statement by David Brulotte, Delegate General of Québec in New York
Speaker Bios:
May Jeong is a writer for Vanity Fair. She is a 2024 Ferris Professor in Journalism at Princeton University, and the winner of the 2022 Ida B.Wells Award administered by the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Her upcoming book on sex work was awarded a 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in- Progress Award and a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. Her reporting from Afghanistan, where she lived from 2013 to 2017, was awarded the South Asian Journalist Association’s Daniel Pearl Award, the Bayeux Calvados Normandy Award for War Correspondents, and has been recognized by the Kurt Schork and Livingston Awards.
Richard Ouellet is Full Professor of International Economic Law, member of the Graduate School of International Studies (ESEI) at Laval University. He is a member of the Quebec Bar and Doctor in Law. He holds the Research Chair on New Challenges of Economic Globalization.
His teaching and research relate to the WTO Agreements and the regional economic integration. He is author of many articles, chapters and lectures related to those topics. He has been invited as a visiting scholar or speaker in more than 15 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He supervises and has supervised more than 100 graduate students at the Masters and Doctoral levels in International Law and in International Relations. Dr. Ouellet’s current research projects relate to the new legal forms of economic regionalism, the institutional evolution of the WTO, and the review of the CUSMA/USMCA. He works as a consultant for governments, public and parapublic organizations on international economic law issues. He acts a peer reviewer for international law, trade and international relations scholarly journals. He is lecturer/professor for the Institut de diplomatie du Québec. His name is on the roster of panelists of Annex 31B of the CUSMA/USMCA.
John Parisella is a well-known and respected figure in Quebec, having occupied, during his career, many functions in the public scene, notably as chief of staff of Premiers Robert Bourassa and Daniel Johnson Jr, as author, as manager in business and philanthropy, as political analyst and as Delegate General of Quebec in New York and Washington.
In recent years, he has become a privileged observer of American politics. He also regularly comments on it in La Presse and on the TVA network. He is also a speaker on several forums. He is the author of four books including “La Politique dans la peau”, which discusses his years in politics.
John Parisella sits on several boards of directors, such as the Port of Montreal, the Fondation pour la langue française, the Old Brewery Mission and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2017 and an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec in 2016. He is currently Special Advisor, Strategy and Outreach at NATIONAL Public Relations and Fellow at the CÉRIUM of the University of Montreal. He is also a recipient of the Medal of the Foreign Policy Association of New York.
