Bio
Brendan Kelly is the head of the Historical Section and deputy director of the Foreign Policy Research and Foresight Division at Global Affairs Canada. His biography of the Canadian diplomat Marcel Cadieux, The Good Fight: Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy (UBC Press), was awarded the 2020 J. W. Dafoe Book Prize for the best book on Canada, Canadians, and/or Canada’s place in the world. His research on Canadian international and diplomatic history has appeared in such journals as the Canadian Historical Review, the American Review of Canadian Studies, and International Journal. He is a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto and the former editor of the Book Reviews section of International Journal, Canada’s leading journal of global policy analysis.
