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Reema Khawja specializes in human rights, administrative and constitutional law, and has led many high-profile, ground-breaking initiatives including the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Right to Read public inquiry. She is senior counsel at the Ontario Human Rights Commission and is also legal counsel to the Nunavut Human Rights Tribunal. Previously, she was legal counsel to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and at the Constitutional Law Branch of the Ministry of the Attorney General. Before joining the Ontario Public Service in 1999, Ms. Khawja was a litigation lawyer with the law firm of McCarthy Tétrault LLP. In 2023, she was named one of Canada’s top 25 most influential lawyers by Canadian Lawyer Magazine.
