Episode 3.17: Change Agent, Soldier-Scholar Dr. Alan Okros

In episode 17 of season 3, Co-hosts Linna Tam-Seto (Assistant Professor Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto) and Steve Saideman discuss the US Justice Department indictment of Russian funded media in North America (including Tenet Media in Canada), immigration backlash and hate crimes increase along with the UN campaign to provide Polio vaccines to children in Gaza. Today’s feature interview is with Dr. Alan Okros, a full professor at the Royal Military College Department of Defence Studies and has been supporting Chief Professional Conduct and Culture initiatives. He is also a co-director of the CDSN. Dr. Alan Okros holds a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Waterloo. He was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Military Psychology and Leadership at the Royal Military College of Canada in 2004 and appointed as Full Professor to the Department of Defence Studies at CFC in 2008. In 2019, he assumed responsibilities as Deputy Director Research in the Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and Security within the Canadian Defence Academy.