Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff (1947-) is the leader of the Liberal Party (Canada). Prior to returning to Canada to enter politics, he was a professor at Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and also had taught at Cambridge University, Oxford University, the University of California, the University of London and the London School of Economics.

Unusual among human rights activists, he is an interventionist who supported the Afghanistan War (2001-) and the Iraq War.

He was a journalist before entering academia. In 1993, for the BBC, he spent time in Quebec, the Ukraine, Iraq and the former Yugoslavia to produce “Blood and Belonging: Journeys in to the New Nationalism”, which he later developed into a book.