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 Bernard Ostry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard A. Ostry, CC (June 10, 1927 – May 24, 2006) was a Canadian author, philanthropist, and former civil servant, who is best known for being chair and CEO of TV Ontario.
Born in Wadena, Saskatchewan, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba in 1948.
In 1985, Premier David Peterson appointed Ostry to the position of chairman and CEO of TVOntario.
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 Sylvia Ostry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sylvia Ostry is Distinguished Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
Ostry is a member of the Group of Thirty in Washington and a founding member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Ostry has written numerous books and articles on various aspects of the international economy, with a particular emphasis on the development and elaboration of the multilateral trading system as well as the impact of globalization.
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 At the Global Crossroads: the Sylvia Ostry Foundation Lectures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sylvia Ostry is one of Canada's foremost public servants.
After leaving the public service of Canada, she became successively chairman of the National Council of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, chancellor of the University of Waterloo, and chairman of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, where she is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Munk Centre.
The Sylvia Ostry Foundation was established in April 1991 by several of Sylvia Ostry's Canadian friends and admirers with the objective of sponsoring a major annual or biennial lecture in Canada on the global economic or financial system.
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 The IMF in a Globalized World Economy--The Tasks Ahead -- Address by Michel Camdessus
It is a great pleasure and a privilege for me to have this opportunity to pay tribute to Sylvia Ostry and to do so in Canada, a country with such a tradition of openness to international cooperation and held in such high regard in all international fora.
Sylvia was the sherpa par excellence, and contributed immeasurably to the development of international policy cooperation.
Sylvia Ostry and R.R. Nelson, Techno-nationalism and Techno-globalism: Conflict and Cooperation (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995).
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 Amazon.fr : The Post-Cold War Trading System: Who's on First: Livres en anglais: Sylvia Ostry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In this comprehensive account, Sylvia Ostry provides a critical analysis of an international trade system in the throes of rapid and far-reaching change.
"Sylvia Ostry knows this subject as few others do, both as a scholar of international trade issues and a major player in the ongoing negotiations that have created the rules of the trade game.
Identifying the historical and legal issues crucial to understanding postwar trade policy, Sylvia Ostry uses the lessons of the past to help chart a course for future trade policy.
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 Sylvia Ostry reappointed as chancellor | News, Media, and Events | University of Waterloo
Sylvia Ostry elected to second term as chancellor WATERLOO, Ont. -- A leading Canadian economist, Sylvia Ostry, has been elected to a second term as chancellor of the University of Waterloo, extending her stay in office to April 30, 1997.
At present, Ostry is chairman of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.
Ostry is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of both the American Economic Association and the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. She is a founding member of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
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 WTO | News - Speeches: R. Ruggiero former D.G. - The road ahead: international trade policy in the era of the WTO
There cannot be many individuals in Canada, or elsewhere for that matter, who combine Sylvia Ostry's extraordinary depth and breadth of experience in the area of trade, and economic policy more generally.
Sylvia Ostry has served as a high official in her government, she has held a senior position in a prominent international institution - the OECD, and now, from her academic vantage point, she is making a signal contribution to our understanding of the complex world we live in.
The most recent expression of this was of course Canada's lead in advocating the establishment of the WTO at the end of the Uruguay Round.
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 Sylvia Ostry Lecture - Prospects for greater hemispheric economic cooperation: an opportunity for Canada by His ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
So it is with particular pleasure that we have been honoured to serve as the host of the Year 2000 Sylvia Ostry Lecture.
It was created in 1992, to honour Sylvia Ostry, who makes an extraordinary contribution to this country as one of its pre-eminent scholars and academics and who has also played a leading role in its public life.
Sylvia, I hope, will continue her magnificent contribution in the years to come.
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 High Style - Masterworks from the Bernard and Sylvia Ostry Collection
Ostry once said how difficult it was to find an empty patch in his house for his precious objects so he did what any inveterate art collector would do.
Entitled High Style: Masterworks from the Bernard and Sylvia Ostry Collection in the Royal Ontario Museum, the 148-page book by Alastair Duncan illustrates the art deco movement with over 300 full color photos and contributions from curators Ross Fox, Peter Kaellgren, Robert Little and Brian Musselwhite.
High Style: Masterworks from the Bernard and Sylvia Ostry Collection in the Royal Ontario Museum is available in fine bookstores across Canada and in the ROM Reproductions Shop in the Museum’s Lower Level for $49.95.
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 Globalization and the G8: Could Kananaskis Set a New Direction? by Sylvia Ostry
Sylvia Ostry, The Post-Cold War Trading System: Who's on First?, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997, Chapters 1,2 and 3.
See Michael Artis and Sylvia Ostry, International Economic Policy Coordination, Chatham House Papers No. 30, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1986, Chapter 4.
Sylvia Ostry, "Dissent.Com: How NGO's Are Re-Making the WTO", Policy Options, June 2001, pp.
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 OMC | Noticias - Discursos Renato Ruggiero, Director-General (1995-1999)
Address to the fourth Sylvia Ostry Lecture in Ottawa, Canada.
It gives me great pleasure, therefore, to deliver the Fourth Annual Lecture of the Sylvia Ostry Foundation.
Before continuing, however, I would just like to say one thing to Sylvia, whom I am proud to count as a long-standing friend: 'Sylvia, please go on doing what you do so well.
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 Baylor University || McBride Center for International Business || Sylvia Ostry
She is a former head of the Economics and Statistics Department of the OECD in Paris, and she has received 19 honorary degrees from universities in Canada and abroad.
Ostry has a Ph.D. in economics from McGill University and Cambridge University.
Ostry was also admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has had several works published.
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 At the Global Crossroads
At the Global Crossroads is a collection of the six lectures given to date.
Peter White was chairman of the Sylvia Ostry Foundation from 1991 to 2002 and is currently executive vice-president of the Ravelston Corporation and of Argus Corporation.
The Honourable Michael Wilson, current chair of the Sylvia Ostry Foundation, has held many positions in the federal government, including minister of Finance, and is now chairman and CEO Canada of UBS Global Asset Management (Canada).
www.mqup.mcgill.ca /book.php?bookid=1660   (357 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Bernard Ostry, a former high-ranking and influential federal and provincial civil servant in the areas of culture and broadcasting who was known for his accomplishments in Canadian public service, died of cancer at his home in Toronto on May 24.
He has been involved with publishing, and assisted with the publication of The Sterling Public Servant: A Global Tribute to Sylvia Ostry; At the Global Crossroads: The Sylvia Ostry Foundation Lectures (six lectures given annually which explore the global economy); and Visions of Canada, The Alan Plaunt Memorial Lectures 1958-1992, co-edited by him.
He is survived by his wife Sylvia, his sons Adam and Jonathan, two grandsons Daniel and Joshua and his brother George.
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 Foreign Affairs - The World Economy in 1983: Marking Time - Sylvia Ostry
The heavily-indebted developing countries demonstrated considerable progress in external adjustment: indeed the largest Latin American debtors accomplished an amazing turnaround in trade performance.
Sylvia Ostry was the head of the Economics and Statistics Department of the OECD from January 1980 to September 1983.
This article was written while the author was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Public Policy in Ottawa, September to December 1983.
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 Silvia Ostry
Sylvia Ostry is Distinguished Research Fellow at the
Ostry herself is a frequent speaker to diverse Canadian and international audiences.
Daniel Drache and Sylvia Ostry, “From Doha to Kananaskis: The Future of the World Trading System and the Crisis of Governance”, Trade Policy Research 2002, John M. Curtis and Dan Ciuriak (eds), Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Canada, 2002.
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 Centre for International Studies
The project on Enhancing the Legitimacy of the World Trading System was initiated and is run by Dr. Sylvia Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
The project is sustained by funding from the Peter Munk Foundation, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council's Major Collaborative Research Initiatives programme.
It is built on the growing consensus, among not only legal and policy-analytic communities but also in a number of inter-governmental institutions, that participatory processes improve policy outcomes, and enhance the legitimacy of policy as well as the compliance with norms and laws.
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 Find in a Library: The sterling public servant : a global tribute to Sylvia Ostry
The sterling public servant : a global tribute to Sylvia Ostry
by Sylvia Ostry; Jacob Ryten; Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
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 Techno-Nationalism And Techno-Globalism: Conflict And Cooperation; Author: Ostry, Sylvia; Author: Cstry, Sylvia; ...
We should be grateful to Ostry and Nelson for giving clarity and balance to interrelated subjects too often dominated by passion and muddle.
Keith Pavitt, University of Sussex Sylvia Ostry is chair of the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
Richard R. Nelson is professor of international and public affairs, business, and law at Columbia University.This work offers detailed information on the industrial policies that arise in high technology industries, both nationally and globally.
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 Amazon.ca: At the Global Crossroads: Books: Sylvia Ostry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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Sylvia Ostry has been a prominent Canadian public servant, chief economist, with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and chair of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.
Not surprisingly this slim collection of essays organized by the Foundation established by her friends and admirers addresses some of the key economic questions facing Canada and the world.
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by H. Woods, Sylvia Ostry, Mahmood A. Zaidi
Sterling Public Servant: A Global Tribute to Sylvia Ostry
by Sylvia Ostry, Mahmood A. Zaidi, Gail Cook-Johnson
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 Ostry,Sylvia Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
by Alan S. Alexandroff (Editor), Syliva Ostry (Editor), Rafael Gomez (Editor)
" We should be grateful to Ostry and Nelson for giving clarity and balance to interrelated subjects too often dominated by passion and muddle." Keith Pavitt, University of Sussex
Governments & Corporations in a Shrinking World: Trade & Innovation Policies in the United States, Europe & Japan
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 Amazon.com: The Post-Cold War Trading System: Who's on First? (A Century Foundation Book): Books: Sylvia Ostry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
by Sylvia Ostry "The burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature on economic growth in recent years has stressed the absence of any automatic or in-built mechanics for a narrowing..." (more)
The burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature on economic growth in recent years has stressed the absence of any automatic or in-built mechanics for a narrowing of differences in real per capita output or productivity among countries.
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 OSTRY SYLVIA (in MARION)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Labour economics in Canada [by] Sylvia Ostry [and] Mahmood A. Zaidi.
The post-cold war trading system : who's on first?
Techno-nationalism and techno-globalism : conflict and cooperation / Sylvia Ostry and Richard R. Nelson.
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