Jillian Siskind
Jillian Siskind – CLAIHR President
Jillian Siskind is Prosecution Counsel for Tarion Warranty Corporation and is the former Senior Policy Advisor for Ontario’s Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Previously, Jillian has worked as Crown Counsel for Ontario’s Ministry of Labour and for Canada’s Department of Justice on criminal and immigration matters. She also worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia where she was involved with appeals concerning both the Yugoslav conflict and Rwandan genocide and participated in the drafting of the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic. Jillian has a B.A. from Simon Fraser University, an LL.B from the University of Ottawa, and an LL.M from the University of Toronto where she completed a dissertation that proposed an internationally acceptable definition for terrorism. Jillian has published in the area of international criminal law and terrorism.