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I am currently Senior Counsel practicing in the area of trade law for the Government of Ontario鈥檚 Ministry of the Attorney General. I obtained a Master of Development Economics (M.D.E.) and LLB from 黄色直播, along with a B.A. Honours in economics and a B.A. in development studies from Queen鈥檚 University. I completed a portion of my law degree studying international and comparative business law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany, and I was called to the Ontario bar in 2009. Over the years, I have taught international trade law as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School鈥檚 Professional Development LLM program in International Business Law.

My passion for studying international trade began during my undergraduate studies in economics at Queen鈥檚 University. While I got a taste for what it was about at Queen鈥檚, it was during my time at Dal鈥檚 MDE program that I was able to dive more deeply into the study of economics, development and how international trade can support the goals of development. Professors Cyrus and Dayton-Johnson were instrumental to my learning about international trade and development economics, providing me with a strong education that applied economics to real world situations and helping build key critical thinking skills that I would use in my career. I had the opportunity to work with Professor Dayton-Johnson at the OECD Development Centre in Paris, France, where I supported research on the impacts of India and China鈥檚 economic growth on international trade and from there, completed my MDE thesis under Professors Cyrus and Dayton-Johnson on the economic emergence of China and India and the trade implications for Bangladesh as a neighbouring small economy. Above all, I fondly remember my time at Dal Economics, where I was fortunate to learn from engaging professors alongside a wonderful, collegial cohort of classmates.

After completing my MDE, I went on to study law at Dal, where I particularly enjoyed studying international trade law, competition law and public international law. As a result, my interest in trade issues, both in the world of economics and law, was broadened during law school. I went onto complete my articling term at a national Bay Street law firm in Toronto, and upon getting called to the Ontario bar, I practiced corporate/commercial litigation for a few years in private practice. However, soon after, I felt a desire to refocus my career to be able to apply my education in economics and trade, as well as law.

I began working for the Government of Ontario in 2013, where I started as a Senior Policy Advisor for the former Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure, focusing on strategic economic policy and then trade policy. In 2015, I became trade counsel with the Government of Ontario鈥檚 Ministry of the Attorney General, where I have built my legal practice focusing exclusively on trade law. In this capacity, I provide legal advice on domestic and international trade negotiations, trade and investment disputes and various government measures to ensure consistency with Ontario鈥檚 trade agreement obligations. My expertise is mainly in the areas of procurement and trade law matters, subsidies and other trade remedies, international investment matters, trade and energy issues and U.S. trade issues.

One of my main files is advising on the longstanding U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute, for which I am lead Ontario counsel. This has been a key example of a dispute that is legal in nature but requires engaging economists to provide economic analysis, which, in this case, was to defend against claims that Canadian governments, including Ontario, subsidize Canadian exports of softwood lumber, thereby causing harm to the U.S. softwood lumber industry. Ultimately, being able to understand the underlying economic analysis supporting Ontario鈥檚 arguments in this dispute, as well as more broadly on other trade files, has made me a better trade lawyer. From a personal perspective, working in the field of trade law has provided me with the perfect opportunity to draw on my education in both economics and law.