About Michael Benarroch

Dr. Michael Benarroch is Dean and CA Manitoba Chair in Business Leadership at the Asper School of Business, effective November 15, 2011. Previously he was the founding Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Winnipeg. A graduate of the Unversity of Winnipeg with a BA(Hons) in Economics , he received his PhD in Economics from Carleton University in 1992 and a Masters from the University of Western Ontario in 1984. His research has focused on international trade, economic development, environmental economics and government policy and he has written widely on these subjects. Dean Benarroch served as an Associate Editor for The Encyclopaedia of Manitoba published by Great Plains Publications.

Dr. Benarroch is a member of the Premier’s Economic Advisory Council, the Council of Economic Advisors for Credit Union Central, and the Council of Advisors for Harris Consulting. He provides guest lectures relating to the state of local, Canadian and global economies and, over the past several years has provided expert commentary on both the federal and provincial budgets for CBC Radio One in Winnipeg.

Areas of Research Interest: International Trade; Development Economics: Technology Transfers between Developed and Less Developed Countries; International Trade and the Environment; Globalization and Government Size.

Areas of Teaching Interest: International Trade; Environmental Economics; International Finance; International Trade and the Environment; International Aspects of Economic Development; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.

 Curriculum Vitae

Useful links

umanitoba.ca/faculties/management

Visionary Conversations: Exploring Human Rights (Victoria/Vancouver)

Biographies and research interests of panel experts

Karen Busby,  Professor, Faculty of Law
Karen Busby is the Academic Director of the University of Manitoba Centre for Human Rights Research Initiative.  She is leading projects designed to connect the University of Manitoba with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She and her team have amassed a group of more than 30 university and community-based researchers to work on projects related to water as a human right. Her research focuses on the discriminatory impacts of law regulating sexuality, sexual violence, obscenity, prostitution, sexual orientation and human reproduction. She was inducted into the Canadian Q Hall of Fame in 2011.

Adam Muller,  Associate Professor of English, Film and Theatre, Faculty of Arts
Adam Muller is a literary and cultural theorist especially interested in the representation of mass violence and atrocity both in works of art and in such public spaces as the modern museum. In addition to his work in the Faculty of Arts, he is a Research Associate with the University’s Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, Centre for Defense and Security Studies, and Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice Studies. He has authored articles on a diverse range of topics in literature, history, and philosophy and has edited and co-edited two books in his field.

Christopher Powell,  Associate Professor, Sociology, Faculty of Arts
Christopher Powell is a social theorist and historical sociologist. His work focuses on genocide and state violence, the place of scientific knowledge in contemporary global society, and the challenges of egalitarian social transformation. He is the author of Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011) and of several articles and book chapters, including "Genocidal Moralities: A Critique" in New Directions in Genocide Research (edited by Adam Jones, Routledge, 2011) and "How Epistemology Matters: Five Reflexive Critiques of Public Sociology", forthcoming in the journal Critical Sociology.

Useful links

Centre for Human Rights Research Initiative

April 2011 issue of On Manitoba (Human Rights)

Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Canadian Museum for Human Rights