Shuvaloy Majumdar

Shuvaloy Majumdar is a Visiting Foreign Policy Scholar at the University of British Columbia's Liu Institute for Global Issues, with a focus on the Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) where he publishes, lectures and contributes foreign policy commentary nationally. He is a principal of Cloud to Street with partners at Harvard and Stanford Universities, designed to understand the intersection of cyberspace and political space in the Egyptian revolution.
Shuvaloy led major American democracy initiatives in Iraq and between 2006 and 2010 for the non-partisan International Republican Institute (IRI). Programs included governance, civil society, political party building, public opinion polling/strategic research, independent media, social media, election observation, candidate training, and voter education programs. Shuvaloy has also participated in political party programs and election observations throughout several countries in Asia between 2001 and 2004.
Over the last decade, he helped establish the Manning Centre for Building Democracy as Political Affairs & Governance Director to the Hon. Preston Manning, , and operated at senior levels in national campaigns. He had his start in politics as an intern in Preston Manning's Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition in 1998. Upon returning home from the Middle East, he was Chairman of the 2012 Alberta Wildrose Convention.
As co-founder and Chairman of The Future Group, a Canadian anti-trafficking organization,he led deployment teams to combat human trafficking in Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2003, for which he received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. Shuvaloy is an editorial board member of the award winning Canadian academic journal C2C Journal: Ideas That Lead, and is also a regular foreign policy contributor to Sun News Network.

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