Join your fellow UK alumni for a signature event - a cocktail reception featuring special guests from McGill and a keynote address by Lord (Gordon) Wasserman, BA'59. Come and meet Christopher Manfredi, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Marc Weinstein, Vice-Principal (Development and Alumni Relations), and learn the latest news about McGill. This will be a great opportunity to network with your fellow alumni, share stories about McGill and Montreal, and maybe even catch up on the Habs' season.

From growing up in Montreal to sitting in the House of Lords in London, Lord Wasserman will discuss his career and the part that McGill played in that trajectory. He will also explain the thinking behind the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales, a policy with which he has been very closely associated, and why he believes that these Commissioners will make the country safer.

Enter through the Trafalgar Square Entrance. All guests must bring along photo ID.

Gordon Wasserman
(Lord Wasserman, of Pimlico in the City of Westminster)

Lord (Gordon) Wasserman has been an adviser on policing to David Cameron as Leader of the Opposition and Prime Minister and is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Born and raised in Montreal, he attended McGill, where he spent most of his time on the McGill Daily, rising steadily from cub reporter to Editor-in-Chief. He came to England in 1959 as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and has been based here ever since.

He joined the British Civil Service where he held a variety of posts including head of social policy in Margaret Thatcher's Think Tank in the Cabinet Office and nearly 12 years as the Assistant Under Secretary of State for Police Science and Technology.

He has been a special adviser to the Police Commissioner of the NYPD, chief of staff of the Philadelphia Police Department, and adviser to other American police departments, the U.S. Department of Justice, and national and local governments in other countries.