History
In its ten years of existence, YMUN has grown into a large organization that now sends delegates to several external conferences, including the Harvard National Model United Nations Conference in Boston, United States the Harvard World Model United Nations Conference held at a different location every year, and the McGill Model United Nations Conference in Montreal, Canada.
A number of delegates have distinguished themselves at these external conferences. In 2008, the YMUN delegation won more awards than any other school in North America at the Harvard World Model United Nations Conference in Puebla, Mexico.
The annual York University Model United Nations Conference has become a prominent feature on the Model United Nations Circuit.
Guest speakers at the 2008 Conference included Azmi Haq, and the Honourable Bob Rae. The guest speakers at the 2009 Conference included the Honourable Pierre Pettigrew,QC and the Honourable George Smitherman. Professor Saeed Rahnema was the keynote speaker at the 2010 conference. He is an award-winning Professor of Political Science at York University. He has served as the Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration, and Coordinator of the Political Science program at Atkinson Faculty, York University. In his homeland of Iran, he taught and worked as a member of the executive of the Industrial Management Institute in Tehran. He has also served with the UNDP, was a Director of the Middle East Economic Association (MEEA), and has been as a member of Editorial Board of several journals.
The annual Conference is attended by a number of Universities and high schools across Canada including Concordia University, University of Toronto, the Royal Military College of Canada, and Appleby College.
YMUN is affiliated with McLaughlin College at York University and has partnered with many student clubs on campus and with external organizations like Salon camden (on March 1, 2009 YMUN and Salon Camden hosted a talk on "Stabilizing Afghanistan in an Increasingly Unstable Region").
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