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Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff was born in Toronto of Russian and Scottish Canadian heritage. His parents were foreign service officers. After graduating from high school in Toronto, he attended the University of Toronto, graduating with a first class honors degree in history. He entered the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in September 1969 and graduated in 1975 with a doctorate in history. He rewrote his doctoral dissertation and turned it into his first book, A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1850, published by Pantheon in 1978. After two years as an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia, he was awarded a senior research fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge, where he led a research project with Istvan Hont on the origins of classical economic theory. This resulted in Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, published by Cambridge University Press in 1983.

After Cambridge, Ignatieff spent the next 16 years as a freelance write

Michael Ignatieff

Canadian author, academic and former politician

The Honourable

Michael Ignatieff

PC CM

Ignatieff in 2011

In office
September 1, 2016 – July 1, 2021
Preceded byJohn Shattuck
Succeeded byShalini Randeria
In office
December 10, 2008 – May 2, 2011
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
DeputyRalph Goodale
Preceded byStéphane Dion
Succeeded byJack Layton
In office
May 2, 2009 – May 25, 2011
Acting: December 10, 2008 – May 2, 2009
Deputy
Preceded byStéphane Dion
Succeeded byBob Rae (acting)
In office
December 2, 2006 – May 2, 2009
Leader
  • Stéphane Dion
  • Himself (acting)
Preceded bySheila Copps (1997)
Succeeded byRalph Goodale (2010)
In office
January 23, 2006 – May 2, 2011
Preceded byJean Augustine
Succeeded byBernard Trottier
Born

Michael Grant Ignatieff


(1947-05-12) May 12, 1947 (age 77)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Political partyLiberal
Spouses

Susan Barrowclough

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Michael Ignatieff

Biography

Michael Ignatieff is a university professor, writer and former Canadian politician. Most recently, he served as president and rector at the Central European University (CEU) from 2016-2021. Prior to CEU, he was Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

He holds a doctorate in history from Harvard University and has held academic posts at the University of British Columbia, Cambridge University, the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and Harvard University, where he was director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy between 2000 and 2005.

His major publications are The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004), and Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013).

Between 2006 and 2011, he served as an MP in the Parliament of Canada and then as leader of the

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