My experience as a doctoral student in the department was everything I could ask for. The faculty is top notch. The relationships I built with the professors and my peers were exceptionally rich. The atmosphere was collegial. The academic standards were high. Now that I am an alumni, I continue to draw on the department’s rich resources in my current work. Truly, the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science is one of Canada’s great intellectual treasures. — Joshua Hjartarson, Policy Director, Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation

Ron Deibert on the Toronto Star’s top Canadian thinkers list


Ron Deibert, professor and director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, has been named as one of Canada’s top thinkers according to the Toronto Star because he “cultivates a hothouse where human rights meet cyberspace.”

He has won kudos as one of the five most influential IT security thinkers in the world, a cutting-edge human rights defender and one ofEsquire magazine’s ‘best and brightest.’

Read more at the Star.

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