He is a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy where he chairs the Ontario 360 research initiative.
In 2015, Rudyard Griffiths moderated the first-ever Canadian election debate dedicated to foreign policy.
Rudyard Griffiths was the co-founder of the Dominion Institute; a national charity created in 1997 to promote history and civics education in Canadian high schools.
He is a founding director and member of the executive committee of the board of the Global Centre for Pluralism; an international initiative of the Aga Khan IV and the Government of Canada.
He has edited various collections of essays on international, political, and historical themes and is the author of the bestselling book Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto (2009).