Shuvaloy Majumdar is a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia with a focus on foreign policy and Middle East democratization. From UBC’s Liu Institute for Global Issues, he directs the Hurriya Initiative: Ending Tyranny through Freedom in 21st Century Statecraft and is a principal ofCloud to Street Shuvaloy led large-scale democracy initiatives in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006 to 2010 for the International Republican Institute (IRI). Over the last decade, he operated at senior levels in Canadian campaigns, and helped establish the Manning Centre for Building Democracy with Preston Manning, C.C. As Chairman of a Canadian anti-trafficking organization, he led deployment teams to combat human trafficking in Southeast Asia between 2000-2003, for which he received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. Shuvaloy is an editorial board member of C2C: Canada’s Journal of Ideas.