Jacques Rastoul

Jacques Rastoul
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Montreal University, McGill University, Lincoln College (Oxford)
Member of	Rhodes Scholar/1967
Canadian NATO-close "security" academic who attended the 1979 and 1983 Bilderbergs. Executive Director of Canadian Institute of International Affairs.

Jacques Rastoul (or possibly Joseph Rastoul) was a Canadian NATO-friendly "security" academic who attended the 1979 and 1983 Bilderbergs. He was Executive Director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.

Education

A "Joseph Rastoul" became a Rhodes Scholar/1967.. In the Québec newspaper le Soleil, December 12, 1966, "Jacques Rastoul", age 22, was reported to have received a Rhodes Scholarship. One possibility is a mix-up of two brothers.

Career

In 1976 he worked in External Affairs, in the section for Law of the Sea, where he participated in the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

In 1982, he was co-author of a report, Canada and Western Security: The Search for New Options, arguing that "Canada is central to the future of the North Atlantic Alliance, that the 1980s will provide future challenges to Canada’s security, most notably in the form of the Soviet threat in ballistic missiles, and that the North Atlantic area is a region in which each member of the Atlantic alliance has a vested interest. The worry, in the last-named instance, is that governments of the alliance will lose their traditional sense of the overwhelming importance of the alliance and NATO, with a consequent weakening of the alliance. The report recommends that the alliance be strengthened by a working group of first ministers who will formulate a long-term approach to dealing with the Soviet threat, and that the Canadian government should reassess its security needs and update and reconfirm its commitment to the alliance and to NATO."

Rastoul was Executive Director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.

He was a member of the Atlantic Council of Canada.

Death

A "Jacques Rastoul" died in 1992, age 47, which would make him around 25 in 1967. He was then director of public affairs at the Banque de Montreal

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1979	27 April 1979	29 April 1979	Austria Baden Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf	27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria
Bilderberg/1983	13 May 1983	15 May 1983	Canada Quebec Château Montebello	The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada

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