Ines Molinaro is Director of the Liberal Arts Programme and Coordinator of Senior Courses at St Clare's, Oxford. Born in Montréal, she earned her post-graduate degrees in politics at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana) and taught political science at the Universities of Birmingham, Warwick and Cambridge (1996-2003). In Cambridge, she was the Fellow in Canadian Studies in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SPS), and the Director of Studies for SPS at Gonville and Caius College and Lucy Cavendish College.