Rudyard Griffiths

Rudyard Griffiths (born 1970) is a social entrepreneur, author, and television broadcaster. He has edited fourteen collections of essays on Canadian and international political and historical themes and is the author of the bestselling book Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto (2009). He has worked as a columnist at the National Post and The Toronto Star and as a television anchor on CTV News Channel and the Business News Network and as a guest host on CBC News Network's Lang & O'Leary Exchange.

Rudyard Griffiths is the co-founder of the Salon Speakers Series in in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. Presenters at the Series include Christopher Hitchens, David Gergen, James Carville, Gore Vidal and Paul Volcker. He is also the moderator and organiser of the semi-annual Munk Debates. Recent Munk Debates participants include Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, Fareed Zakaria, and Paul Krugman.

Rudyard Griffiths is the co-founder of the Dominion Institute; a national charity created in 1997 to promote history and civics education in Canadian high schools. He stepped down as executive director in July 2008. In September 2009, the Dominion Institute merged with the Historica Foundation to create Canada’s largest history and citizenship NGO. He was a founding board member of the combined organization until 2012. He currently sits on the boards of the Global Centre for Pluralism; an international initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan and the non-partisan Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Canadian advisory board of the U.K. based Ditchley Foundation.

In 2006, Rudyard Griffiths was recognised by The Globe and Mail as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40. He studied history and political science at Trinity College, University of Toronto and completed a masters of philosophy at Cambridge University.