John Gradek, a lecturer at McGill University’s Aviation Management Program

Benjamin Reitzes, BMO’s director of Canadian rates and macro strategist

Geoff Stewart, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Nicholas Dahir is a research officer at the C.D. Howe Institute

Kristen Thomasen, an associate professor and chair in law, robotics and society at the University of Windsor

Dr. Barry Prentice, director of the transport institute at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business

Christopher Hume, contributor to the Hub. He was the architecture critic and urban issues columnist for the Toronto Star for 34 years

Joe Varner, deputy director of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute who served as a senior advisor and policy director to former defence minister Peter Mackay

Shaye Ganam, Lauren McNabb, Jody Vance, and Stephanie Smyth

Dr. Simeon Barber, a space scientist at Open University

Greg Northey, vice president of public affairs at Pulse Canada

James Horncastle, assistant professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University

Denise O’Connor, the Mayor of the village of Lytton, B.C.

Duncan Dee, aviation consultant and former COO of Air Canada

Benjamin Bergen, president of the Council of Canadian Innovators

Jeff Davison, former City of Calgary councillor. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Prostate Cancer Centre. He is also currently on the University of Calgary Board of Governors and Senate and is a director on the boards of multiple private and public companies. Michael Walters was on Edmonton City Council from 2013-2021 and is currently partner, director of strategy, BERLIN COMMUNICATIONS

Bradlee Whidden is a policy analyst for Western Canada at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business

John Turley-Ewart is a regulatory risk management consultant and Canadian banking historian

Alexi White is Maytree’s Director of Systems Change

Catherine Griwkowsky, legislature reporter, AB Today and Ian Skipworth, consultant, Summa Strategies

Heidi Veluw, Director of Jasper Employment and Education Centre

Alan Cross, music historian and host of the Ongoing History of Music

Joanne McNeish is a professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University

Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in Washington

Steven Armstrong has worked worldwide as a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Red Cross for more than four decades, being on the frontlines of the Sri Lanka Tsunami in 2004, wildfires across our province, among many others