Niru Kumar
Niru Kumar joined the Board in 2006 and is a Public Sector Lawyer with a long-standing interest and involvement in human rights issues. She holds bi-juridical law degrees (civil and common law), as well as an undergraduate degree in commerce, from McGill University. Niru has served as an intern with a Supreme Court lawyer in Delhi, as well as with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Since moving to Ontario, she has worked with the Office of the Children’s Lawyer, the Commission for the Walkerton Inquiry, the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services (now Ministry of Small Business and Consumer Services) and the Electrical Safety Authority. Niru currently spends her time volunteering on 2 not-for-profit Boards and raising her children.