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Advisory Council

The Advisory Council is a group of professionals and academics that provides expert advice to the Department of Criminology on program related matters. Our Advisory Council helps us identify current and future needs within the criminal justice field and works with our faculty to ensure that our curriculum is current and relevant.

List of Members

Alok Mukherjee
Chair, Toronto Police Services Board (2005-2018)
Co- Author (with Tim Harper), Excessive Force: Toronto's Fight to Reform City Policing (2018)
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Criminology (2015-2018)
Kimberly Murray
Associate Professor, and National Scholar, Indigenous Legal Studies, Queen’s University
Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves
Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Indigenous Justice Division (2015 to 2021)
Deborah Newman
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (retired)
Former Distinguished Visiting Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Chair, Departmental Audit Committee, Correctional Services Canada

Howard Sapers
Justice Sector Consultant
Former Independent Advisor on Correction Reform to the Ontario Government

Zain Shah, M.A.
Alum, Department of Criminology
The Honorable Justice Michael H. Tulloch
Chief Justice of Ontario