Kim Baird

Fellow

Kim Baird is a member of Tsawwassen First Nation, the owner of Kim Baird Strategic Consulting and chancellor of Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Kim is an experienced strategic advisor to industry, governments and First Nations, working to improve the quality of life of Indigenous people through policy, governance and economic development.

From 1999 to 2012, Kim was chief of the Tsawwassen First Nation, during which time she negotiated and implemented British Columbia’s first urban treaty, replacing the Indian Act with self-governance for her community.

Kim sits on the boards of the Canada Infrastructure Bank and LaSalle College Vancouver. She is a past board director of BC Hydro, Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping, the Vancouver Board of Trade and PPF, among others.

Kim was invested as a member of the Order of British Columbia in 2016 and as a member of the Order of Canada in 2015. She was named an Indspire laureate in 2015, earned the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and received an honourary doctorate from Simon Fraser University that same year.

Kim has an associate of arts degree from Kwantlen Polytechnic University and has completed the Institute of Corporate Directors’ Directors Education Program.

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