About the Author

• Author: Anita Indira Anand
• Pages: 189-190

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About the Author

Anita Indira Anand is a professor of law and JR Kimber Chair in

Investor Protection and Corporate Governance at the University of

Toronto. Professor Anandserved as associate dean at the law school

from 2007 to 2009 and serves as the academic director of the Cen-

tre for the Legal Profession and its program on ethics in law and

business. She is a senior fellow and member of the governing board

at Massey College and is cross-appointed to the Rotman School of

Management and the School of Public Policy and Governance, and

serves as the director of policy and research at the Capital Markets

Institute at Rotman. Her main research areas relate to the regula-

tion of capital markets, with a specic focus on corporate govern-

ance, enforcement, capital raising techniques, and systemic risk.

In 2015, Professor Anand was appointed by Ontario’s minister of

nance to the Expert Committee to Consider Financial Advisory and

Financial Planning Policy Alternatives. She has conducted research

for the Five-Year Review Committee, the 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 Secur-

ities Commission’s Investor Advisory Panel (2010–2012) and the presi-

dent of the Canadian Law and Economics Association (2009–2011).

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–US