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KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS

Keynote Speakers

Ken Georgetti: Brother Georgetti is President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Chair of the CLC’s Pension Advisory Working Group, and Chair of the International Trade Union Confederation’s Committee for Workers’ Capital.

John Monks: Brother Monks was elected General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation in 2003. He recently made international news with a provocative lecture on hedge funds and private equity to the British House of Commons in January 2006.

Monica Townson: Sister Townson is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices on pension policy. For the past 20 years, she has operated her own business as an economic consultant and free-lance financial journalist. She is the author of several books, including her latest work: Growing Older, Working Longer: The New Face of Retirement (CCPA: 2006).

Plenary Speakers

Jackie Dwyer: Sister Dwyer is a trustee for the Multi-Sector Pension Plan, a growing union-run, multi-employer pension plan administered by the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Service Employees International Union.

Mary Eady: Sister Eady was the first Director of the CLC’s Women’s Department, and a key organizer in campaigns to reform the Canada Pension Plan in the 1970s and 1980s. She also served as the Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour in Manitoba during Howard Pawley’s
NDP government (1981-1988).

Derek Fudge: Brother Fudge is the National Director of Policy Development and Liaison for the National Union of Public and General Employees. He is the author of No Pension Panic: The Real Pensions Crisis – It’s All About Coverage, Not Funding (NUPGE: November 2006). Brother Fudge is a member of the CLC’s Pension Advisory Working Group.

The Honourable Senator Yoine Goldstein: Senator Goldstein is Canada’s leading expert on bankruptcy law. He was appointed to the Senate in August 2005 by then Prime Minister Paul Martin.

Marie Kelly: Sister Kelly is Assistant to the Director for District 6 of the United Steelworkers (USW). She has been a lead negotiator and campaigner in several USW battles for pension security in corporate bankruptcies.

Hugh Mackenzie: Brother Mackenzie has worked for over 30 years in a variety of capacities related to public policy development in the trade union movement, the private sector, and at all three levels of government.

Michael Musuraca: Brother Musuraca an Assistant Director in Research and Negotiations for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Since 1996, he has served as a trustee to the New York City Retirement System (NYCERS). Brother Musuraca has been a leading proponent of responsible investment for union pension funds.

Brian O’Keefe: Brother O’Keefe was previously Secretary-Treasurer for CUPE Ontario and trustee for the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), a pension fund with 372,000 active and retired members, and assets of over $48 billion. Brother O’Keefe now sits on the OMERS.Sponsors Board.

Larry Wagg: Brother Wagg is President of the Congress of Union Retirees of Canada, which represents over 500,000 retirees of CLC affiliated unions. He has also served as the CLC’s Education Director, and current sits on the CLC’s Pension Advisory Working Group.

Julie White: Sister White works in the Research Department for the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. She has published four books on labour and union issues, and recently collaborated on the Canada Health Coalition’s More for Less: Pharmacare – A National Drug Plan (September 2007).