Two University of Ottawa alumni students have received a J. Armand Bombardier Internationalist Fellowship. These awards worth $10,000 each are given to university graduates who propose a clear plan for study abroad in a key sector for Canada.
Pierric Le Dorze, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, received his bachelor’s degree in history in the cooperative education program from the University of Ottawa in 2003. He moved to the nation’s capital in 1998 to work as a page in the House of Commons while studying at the University. Over the course of his studies, he worked for a number of years in the parliamentary office of the MP from Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Lachine. The J. Armand Bombardier Internationalist Fellowhip will help him undertake a master’s degree in theory and history of international relations at The London School of Economics and Political Science. The goal of this one-year program is to study international relations and their fundamental issues from a theoretical perspective. After finishing his master’s degree, Mr. Le Dorze hopes to obtain a doctoral degree and eventually work for the United Nations.
Scott Rothwell, a resident of Ottawa, Ontario, holds a Baccalaureate in Social Sciences (honours) in Political Science, a Baccalaureate of Laws (LL.B.) and a Licentiate in Civil Law (LL.L.) from the University of Ottawa. The J. Armand Bombardier Internationalist Fellowship will support his undertaking a Master of International Commercial Arbitration Law at the University of Stockholm in Sweden. This innovative programme addresses a burgeoning field of law that is beginning to develop in Canada and which is more prominently practiced by most leading European and Asian nations.
