Anita Anand

Anita Indira Anand is currently serving as the Member of Parliament for Oakville, Ontario. She is on leave from the Faculty of Law for the duration of her appointment.

Prior to assuming her role as MP, Professor Anand, a Professor of Law, held the J.R. Kimber Chair in Investor Protection and Corporate Governance. She served as Associate Dean from 2007-2009 and since 2010, served as the Academic Director of the Centre for the Legal Profession and its Program on Ethics in Law and Business. She is a Senior Fellow of Massey College and cross-appointed to the Rotman School of Management and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. In 2019, the Royal Society of Canada awarded her the Yvain Allaire medal for her outstanding contributions in governance relating to private and public organizations.

During the 2009-2010 academic year, Professor Anand was a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Canada and a Herbert Smith Visitor at the University of Cambridge. In 2005-2006, she was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Olin Scholar in Law and Economics at Yale Law School. During the Fall 2005, she was a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School where she taught comparative corporate governance. In Fall 2017, she was appointed Director of Policy and Research at the Capital Markets Institute, Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where she also taught in the Directors' Education Program.

She is the recipient of research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (four awards), the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Foundation for Legal Research (three awards), the Connaught Foundation as well as the Canadian Association of Law Teachers' Scholarly Paper Award (2003).  In Fall 2004, she received the Queen's Law Students' Society Award for Excellence in Teaching and in Fall 2006, she and co-authors Frank Milne and Lynnette Purda were awarded the Best Paper in Managerial Finance by the International Journal of Managerial Finance for their empirical research relating to corporate governance. 

In 2015, Professor Anand was appointed by Ontario's Minister of Finance to the Expert Committee to Consider Financial Advisory and Financial Planning Policy Alternatives. She has conducted research for Ontario's Five-Year Review Committee, the federal Wise Person's Committee, the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada and the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182.  She was the inaugural Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission's Investor Advisory Panel (2010-2012) and the president of the Canadian Law and Economics Association (2009-2011).

In 2012, she was appointed to the Bertha Wilson Honour Society by the Schulich School of Law for service to the legal profession.  She is the Editor of Canadian Law eJournal, published by the Legal Scholarship Network. She has served on the Ontario Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee and the U.S.-Canada Fulbright Committee as well as public company and non-profit boards of directors. Her main research areas relate to the regulation of capital markets with a specific focus on corporate governance, enforcement, capital raising techniques and systemic risk.

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