The Honourable Louise Arbour
Board Director
The Honourable Louise Arbour is Senior Counsel at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. In 2020/2021, she conducted an independent review of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2017/2018, Ms. Arbour served as the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN for International Migration. She previously served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
She is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and of the High Court of Justice of Ontario. From 2009 to 2014, Ms. Arbour was President and CEO of the International Crisis Group. She formerly sat as an ad hoc judge in the International Court of Justice, and as a member of the Advisory Panel to the Minister of Defence on Canada's Defence Policy Review.
She has received numerous honorary doctorates and awards. Most noteworthy, she has been a Companion of the Order of Canada since 2007, a Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Québec since 2009, and a Commander of the Légion d'honneur. She also has been decorated by Spain, Colombia, and Belgium, and was awarded the 2016 Tang Prize in the ‘Rule of Law’ category.
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