Nigel Martin is the founding President of the Montreal International Forum (FIM), an international NGO think-tank and was the founding co-President of the original World Bank/NGO Committee.
With over 35 years experience in the NGO community, Nigel has been the Executive Director of several NGOs, including the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC) in Ottawa, Euro Action Accord in London (UK), and OCSD and Oxfam-Quebec in Montreal. Nigel has served on several Boards of Directors and is currently on the board of the Carold Foundation in Toronto. He is a member of the steering committee of the UNDP Platform HD 2010 and has been an official advisor on development issues to both the Government of Canada and the government of Quebec. He is a co-founder of Mothers’ Call International.
A graduate of Mount Allison University, Nigel began his career with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in 1971 where he was one of the earliest staff members of the then fledgling NGO program. Before leaving the government in 1975 for a career in the NGO sector he was Director of Asia Programming for the CIDA NGO Division. His publications include: Practice-Research Engagement and Civil Society published by The Hauser Center, Harvard University 2001; Critical Mass: The Emergence of Global Civil Society, published by Wilfred Laurier University Press 2008. He wrote the foreword to: Democratizing Global Governance: Ten Years of Case Studies and Reflections by Civil Society Activists published by Mosaic Books; New Delhi in 2009