Bio
Wesley Wark is a senior fellow at CIGI and a fellow with the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His academic career included teaching at McGill University, the University of Calgary and the University of Toronto. He served two terms on the prime minister of Canada’s Advisory Council on National Security (2005–2009) and on the Advisory Committee to the President of the Canada Border Services Agency (2006–2010). More recently, he provided advice to the minister of public safety on national security legislation and policy. He has appeared on numerous occasions before parliamentary committees and comments regularly for the media on national security issues.
He is the co-editor (with Christopher Andrew and Richard J. Aldrich) of Secret Intelligence: A Reader, second edition (Routledge, 2019). He co-led the major CIGI project on Reimagining a Canadian National Security Strategy and wrote, with Aaron Shull, its capstone report. He was the series editor, with Aaron Shull, of the CIGI digital essay series Security, Intelligence and the Global Health Crisis. He is a former editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security and now serves on the journal’s advisory board.