Rosalind Boyd is the founding Director of, and presently Project Advisor to, the Montreal Inter-university Initiative in International Development currently based at the Université de Montréal à Quebec (UQAM). Funded by the International Development Research Centre, the Montreal Initiative brings together a network of researchers, students and staff from the four Montreal-based universities involved in graduate research in international development in order to provide a stronger nurturing environment for a range of new cutting-edge research activities.