Wendy Lawrence

General Counsel, Secretary of the Board of Governors, and Chief Privacy Officer

DepartmentOffice of the General Counsel and Board Secretariat

Wendy Lawrence is General Counsel, Secretary of the Board of Governors, and Chief Privacy Officer for Toronto Metropolitan University, where she is a member of the University executive leadership team and a trusted advisor on a wide range of legal, governance, and privacy matters.

Wendy joins the University after spending over a decade in executive and senior legal leadership positions at academic hospitals, including The Hospital for Sick Children, and before that was counsel at the Ministry of the Attorney General. She is an experienced broader public sector lawyer, with expertise in matters ranging from corporate / commercial transactions, contracts, regulatory compliance, privacy and access to information law, and administrative law, and has been recognized for playing a leadership role in advancing compliance programs in the sector.

Wendy holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) degree from Queen’s University and a LL.B from the University of Windsor.