Harvard Club of OttawaDr Mark Carney is UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26. He was previously Governor of the Bank of England (from 2013 to 2020), and Governor of the Bank of Canada (from 2008 to 2013). Dr Carney has been nominated as a candidate for the Harvard […]
A Livestream Concert Please join the Harvard Club of Ottawa for a Sunday afternoon of classical music with duo AnNat (Anna Klochkova, violin, and Natalia Bibik-Chabukiani, piano), followed by a Zoom reception. The program will include music from Mozart, Brahms and Debussy. Date: Sunday, March 28th 2021 4:00pm EST Natalia Bibik-Chabukiani is a graduate of […]
The Harvard Club of Ottawa Book Club is pleased to host the 2020 Taylor Prize winner for non-fiction: local writer, historian, political commentator, and lawyer, Mark Bourrie. Join us virtually on Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 7:00pm to discuss his book, Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. The story is at once familiar, touching Canada's shores and […]
TOMORROW: Join us on June 9 at 7pm for a chat with Harvard alum Dr. Melanie Adrien! Dr. Adrien co-founded Be the Choice, an organization dedicated to making breast cancer treatment info accessible & participatory. Register at:
Can Western Democracies Contain Rising Authoritarianism from the East? In this lecture, Dr. Fitz-Gerald discusses how democratic countries (typically hesitant to use "hard power") can cope with authoritarianism rising from the East, where "hard power" is a dominant strategy. Dr. Fitz-Gerald will explore this theme by looking at a number of contemporary issues, such as: […]
Our river clean-up is this Sunday (Oct 24)! Join us at 10:30am in front of The Bridge Public House restaurant (1 Donald St., at the Rideau Sports Centre). We'll clean up the nearby shore of the Rideau River. Then we have a 11:30am patio reservation at the restaurant!
Come meet alumni from Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, Cornell, the London School of Economics, and other top universities! Free hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Craving something sweet? Join us at 7:30pm on Zoom to learn how to make and decorate traditional Hungarian Christmas cookies!
Join us at 7 pm on Feb 1 for our Annual General Meeting! Then, at 7:30pm, we will turn the mic over to Harvard fellow Flynn Coleman, who will discuss her new book "A Human Algorithm: How #ArtificialIntelligence Is Redefining Who We Are". In this fireside conversation, Flynn Coleman will discuss her new book A Human […]
The geopolitical implications of Canada’s renewable energy agenda Synopsis: The Russian invasion of Ukraine reveals the tangible implications of sanctioning an oil producing country. While the current sanctions are clearly impacting Canada’s economy, including prices at the pump, this is not the first time that international politics with an oil producing country have been clouded […]
The Harvard Club of Ottawa Book Club virtually welcomes Kim Echlin to speak about her new novel, Speak, Silence. While framed in fiction, the carefully researched book details intimate stories from women who lived through the Bosnian war and its aftermath. From the point of view of a journalist, it tells stories of sexual violence that were bravely […]
Communication is key to any successful project and organization, particularly in uncertain times. The Harvard Club of Ottawa and the Rideau Club welcome you to a conversation with global communication experts. Barry J. McLoughlin and Laura Peck have over three decades of experience training global leaders in communication strategies. They will be interviewed by learning […]
