Aimee Craft

Professor Craft brings a wealth of experience in environmental governance, Indigenous law and public policy. She is a distinguished Anishinaabe-Métis lawyer from Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba andholds a University Research Chair Nibi miinawaa aki inaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water. Beyond environmental law, Professor Craft has played a pivotal role in national and international conversations on Indigenous rights. She served as the Director of Research for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, as well as the founding Director of Research at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. She practiced at the Public Interest Law Centre for over a decade and in 2016 she was voted one of the top 25 most influential lawyers in Canada. In 2021 she was awarded the prestigious Canadian Bar Association President’s Award. She has also been elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists and appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province’s highest honour. We wish Professor Craft every success as she takes on this important leadership role. She will be on leave from the University of Ottawa as of September 2025.