Rudyard Griffiths

Who is Rudyard Griffiths?

Rudyard Griffiths is a social entrepreneur, author, and television broadcaster. He has edited fourteen collections of essays on Canadian and international political and historical themes and is the author of the bestselling book Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto. He has worked as a columnist at the National Post and The Toronto Star and as a television anchor on CTV News Channel and the Business News Network and is a guest host on CBC News Network's Lang & O'Leary Exchange.

Rudyard Griffiths is the President of the Peter and Melanie Munk Foundation and its sister charity, The Aurea Foundation. The PMMF makes large-scale grants to Canadian and international institutions including The Munk School of Global Affairs, The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Aurea Foundation supports Canadian institutions involved in the study and development of public policy. Together the two foundations have donated $160 million to various causes.

Rudyard Griffiths is the co-founder of the Salon Speakers Series in in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. Presenters at the Series include Christopher Hitchens, David Gergen, James Carville, Gore Vidal and Paul Volcker. He is also the moderator and organiser of the semi-annual Munk Debates. Recent Munk Debates participants include Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, Fareed Zakaria, and Paul Krugman.