André Donneur
André Donneur (born November 24, 1938, Geneva) has been a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada since 1969 after having taught at Laurentian University, from 1966 to 1969. He was a founding member of the department of political science of UQAM. He holds a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of International Studies. He was a member of the board of directors of Association francophone pour le savoir (1968-1970), president of the Canadian Political Science Association (1970-1972), guest member of the policy analysis committee of Global Affairs Canada (1972- 1973), director of the  political science department at UQAM (1974-1976), president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1976-1977) and was a member (1985-1991) of the executive committee of the International Political Science Association and (1986-1992) of the advisory committee of the International Journal of Political Science. In 1983 and 1989 he was part of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly and that to the Geneva conference on disarmament in 1984, as well as a participant in the Ottawa conference which created the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer  of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (1997). He has published or collaborated on dozens of books on Canadian foreign policy, transnational forces and comparative regional security. He received in 1977 the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his scientific contribution.