Janice Gross Stein (born 1943) is a Canadian political scientist and international relations expert. Stein is a specialist in Middle East area studies; negotiation theory; foreign policy decision-making; and international conflict management. She was the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where she is a professor. Life and career Stein holds degrees from McGill University (undergraduate and doctoral), and Yale University (master's). She has been a professor at the University of Toronto since 1982, and was named a University Professor in 1996. Stein is a specialist in Middle East area studies; negotiation theory; foreign policy decision-making; and international conflict management, on which she has lectured at the Centre for National Security Studies in Ottawa and at the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy. Stein is the founder and former director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and Associate Chair and Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation within the University of Toronto's political science department. Stein has been considered the central figure in making the Munk School a go-to-place for international affairs in Toronto. She has also been referred to as an academic entrepreneur. Following the end of her directorship at the Munk School, Stein became the senior presidential advisor on international initiatives to the University of Toronto President, Meric Gertler. Stein is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other organizational affiliations and memberships include: National Academy of Sciences' Workshop on Middle East Negotiations and the Committee on International Conflict Resolution Advisory Group on Cross-Cultural Negotiation United States Institute of Peace's Advisory Committee for Peacemaking in the 21st Century American Association for the Advancement of Science's Advisory Committee on Conflict Management in the Gulf American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Committee on Security Chair, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development Board Member, Canadian International Council Honours Stein was selected to give the 2001 Massey Lecture. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate, was awarded a Trudeau Fellow in 2003. She is also the winner of the Mershon Prize for an outstanding contribution to public education on issues of national security. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of