Kim Richard Nossal

Who is Kim Richard Nossal?

Kim Richard Nossal, Ph.D., is the director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was born in London, England, and schooled in Melbourne, Beijing, Toronto, and Hong Kong. He attended the University of Toronto, receiving his PhD in 1977. In 1976 he joined the Department of Political Science at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he taught international relations and Canadian foreign policy for 25 years, serving as chair of the Department in 1989-90 and 1992-1996. In 2001, he was appointed as head of the Department of Political Studies at Queen's, a position he held until 2009. He was the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of International Relations from 2008 to 2013. From January 2011 to December 2013 he was the director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy in the School of Policy Studies. In July 2013 he was appointed as director of the School.

Nossal has served as editor of International Journal, and as the North American editor of Global Change, Peace and Security and has served on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Études internationales, Revista Méxicana de Estudios Canadienses, and Civil Wars. He served as president of the Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America between 1999 and 2001, and president of the Canadian Political Science Association in 2005-2006.