Anoush Fraser Terjanian is the Special Adviser to the Vice-President, International and Francophonie, uOttawa, having previously served as the first Assistant Vice Dean, Partnerships and Research Networks, at the uOttawa Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research and teaching focus on 18th-century France-birthplace of political and economic theories under renewed evaluation, namely imperialism, modern democracy, and capitalism. She trained at Johns Hopkins, l'EHESS (Paris), Cambridge, and McGill universities. Previously, Anoush served as the founding Director of the US Social Science Research Council's Anxieties of Democracy program, where she collaborated with an eminent Advisory Committee to design, fund, promote, and manage this international venture to incubate and broadcast better understandings of the dilemmas of legitimacy and capacity faced by established democracies. Born and raised in Canada, Terjanian has lived and studied in Egypt, England, France, and Italy. Her longstanding interest in governance, globalisation, and democratic institutions mixes theory and praxis: She is an alumna of Canada's Parliamentary Internship Programme; she later served on Canada's G7 Summit delegation as a Summit Officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Anoush is the author of Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought, re-released in paperback by Cambridge University Press in 2016. In 2021, she was re-appointed to a second term on the Governing Council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Anoush's research focuses on the links between political economy, cosmopolitanism, imperialism, and democracy. She is a Research Associate at the uOttawa Centre for International Policy Studies and a member of the Europe-Canada Network 'Dialogue on Democracy' Research Group.