INET-CIGI plans to holds its first joint conference at the new CIGI campus in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Balsillie founded The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), to focus on restructuring international governance, in 2001, created the new Canadian International Council (CIC) in 2007, and started the Balsillie School of International Affairs a year later.

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When I asked him after the press conference (where nearly all questions particularly by foreign press were directed at Soros) if I could speak to him, he quickly told me that unless it was to discuss the new CIGI-INET partnership, no he would not be talking to press.

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